Quoting the Alsops: It is being further charged that this pressure has been brought to bear despite a prior American promise that the Japanese would be left free to choose between the Nationalists and the Chinese Communists Then. later on the Alsop column: The fact IsSay the Alsopsthat before Dulles left for Britain last June to try to negotiate a Japanese treaty witl the British. the Japanese Government had already made up its mind. And later on: This fact was perfectly well known to the British Foreign Office. And then. near the end of the articleand this is very significant. for I think we ought to lay all our cards on the tableappears this: The basic reason for the continuing AngloAmerican tension over Asiatic policy is not any love on the part of the British Government for the Chinese Communists. Rather it is the fear that the Japanese. excluded from China. will enter into disastrous commercial competition with the British in India and southeast Asia. Mr.