-May Contend Mac Not ‘In the Know
Administration Defense of Policies Begins
W ASHINGTON May 7—(AP)—A main line of administration defense
in Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s power drive against the policy of
"limited” war in Korea may be a contention that the general simply
lacks the information to qualify him for final judgment on issues
reaching outside the Orient.
The shadowy outlines of such a possible strategy began to emerge
yesterday on the eve of the Secretary of Defense Marshall’s appear
ance as leadoff man fqr the Pentagon and the White House.
“The Way to General War”
Of one thing nobody had any doubt: Marshall in testimony before
the combined Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Com
mittees will encounter MacArthur’s scathing three-day attack with the
plea that the MacArthur way may well be the way to general war.
That is the stated view of President Truman who fired MacArthur
from his Far East command.
The deposed general’s opposite view, restated countless times in
the marathon stint on the witness stand which he completed late Sat
urday, is that World War III is more likely to grow out of failure to
whip Communist China completely in Korea.
Sign of Weakness
MacArthur argued that stalemate there—or the “appeasement” of
which he expressed fear—would look to Soviet Russia like a sign of
western weakness and a signal to strike.
Against this the Secretary of Defense, like MacArthur a veteran
military man and five-star general, is expected to contend that the
risk of setting off direct Russian intervention and general war would
be increased by air operations over Manchuria, blockading China and
using the Nationalist Chinese troops from Formosa.
—■ Those are MacArthur’s concrete proposals to bring what he said
would be victory over Red China instead of a “bloody stalemate.”
Senators Keep Own Council
Throughout the three days MacArthur was on the stand admin
istration senators dealt gingerly and considerably with him, and kept
their own counsel as to just what lines the rebuttal may take.
But with the record on MacArthurs’ side of the issue finally com
pleted, a rescanning of some 174,000 words of hearing transcript
shows repeated efforts to draw MacArthur out on matters outside the
Orient where he has been busy the past 14 years.
The general was firm on every such occasion in his view that
strong American action for actual military victory in Korea would be
likely actually to slow down or head off Kremlin moves both there
and elsewhere.
Korea “First Line of Defense”
He stated the flat opinion that the free world is “doomed to
destruction” if it fails to ci’ush the Red threat completely in Korea. He
said the West’s real “first line of defense” is there.
But he shied away from anything but broad generalities when dis
cussion moved outside the Orient.
Senator McMahon (D-Conn) led the move to draw MacArthur
into wider areas of policy, and finally got this answer to a question
on whether the defenses are ready to withstand an attack on Western
Europe:
Not Testifying on Global Defense
“I have asked you several times not to involve me in anything
except my own area. My concepts on global defense are not what I
am here to testify on. I don’t pretend to be an authority on these
things. The Joint Chiefs of Staff or others here are the ones to ans
wer that qilery, not me.”
McMahon, presistent up to that point, pretty well let it go at that.
The joint chiefs will take the stand after Marshall and can be ex
pected to give their answers on the point.
Couldn’t Weigh All Necessary Factors?
At the same time, however, the exchanges showed the probable
lines of the answer to any contention that the general was not in
position to weigh all the necessary factors.
MacArthur took the view that preparations for Europe’s de
fense are pointed at goals two years from now. He said quick real
victory in Korea would free American forces for other tasks and
their experience there would make them more effective.
' Marshall will be the first to testify (8 a. m. CST) among the ad-
ministration leaders who joined in what the defense department calls
“unanimous recommendations” on which MacArthur’s dismissal was
based. As such, he faces stiff questioning. It will come from 25 sena
tors obviously impressed by the former Pacific commander’s presenta
tion although many of them do not agree with MacArthur.
Battalion Editorials
Page 2
MONDAY, MAY 7, 1951
Check Your Guns, Pard .
T^EXAS law-makers have dealt junior a low
blow.
A bill sent to the Governor last weekend
makes it punishable by a fine up to $100 to
A Few Bouquets
For Fine Weekend
TUIEY said it would be “bigger and better”
than ever—and it was.
We’re speaking of last Friday’s Cotton
Pageant and Ball. Its planners and directors
deserve one big batch of orchid's. With one
exception—a list of dukes and duchesses that
seemed endless—the night was perfect. We
hear, though, that the one exception will be
taken care of in next year’s planning.
While we’re lining out the compliments,
we don’t want to stop with Friday night.
Another bouquet is quite in order to the
bookers of Dick Jurgens and his orchestra
for the Saturday night concert and dance.
The only thing lacking in the Saturday
night entertainment was a sufficient crowd.
Jurgens provided a program that had some
thing in it for everyone.
This, of course, was only the first of a
series of three activity-filled week-ends. If
the next two can be as good, there should be
no cause for complaints.
shoot a B-B gun (includes pistols, too) across
any public square, street or alley of any town
or city or within 100 yards of any business
establishment.
That same fine, incidentally, applies to
the discharging of giant firecrackers in town.
With the firecrackers we’ll go along.
We’ve just about reached the age when peace
and quiet holds a bit of a value.
But the B-B guns are another proposition.
It’s not been too long since we drew beads on
sparrows just like the rest of the kids.
The law, of course, won’t be too rough on
small-town kids. It won’t affect country lads
at all. But the lad that has the misfortune
of living in a large city is losing one of his
chances to feel somewhat on a par with the
dead-eye doings of his country cousin.
It sounds to us as if the new law is the
work of some more of those lobbyists—rep
resenting, of coure, the mean and grouchy
merchant, never able to stand children, who
stands out so vividly in our city-dwelling-
recollections of younger days.
We see the grounds for the action —
the air rifle is a potential danger ot
life, limb and property. But since when has
the average American kid needed anything
more than his natural talents to constitute
such a menace ?
We’ll accept defeat, though—and play
with little brother’s electric train instead.
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Appropriations
Bill Ups Wages,
Bans State Car
CALARY increases for state em-
^ ployees and sudden death for
state owned passenger cars—these
are among the multiple provisions
of the giant appropriations bill be
ing presented the legislature in
Austin today.
The bill, a $200,000,000 summa
tion of what it will take to run
the state government for the next
two years, was finished Saturday
by a joint committee of five sen
ators and five representatives.
It calls for an allocation to col
leges and universities of $85,380,-
000 plus $5,115,000 for buildings.
The committee adopted a com
bination of lump sum and line-
item appropriations for schools of
higher education. Lump sum appro
priations allow colleges wide dis
cretion in use of the funds to meet
changing conditions arid needs.
The salary boost Would come to
state employees making less than
$5,000 per year, giving them an
additional 10 per cent of the first
$2,400.
Money for instructional salar
ies are presented by the committefe
in an item separate from adminis
trative frinds. This is to prevent
dollars set aside for teaching be
ing diverted to other purposes.
College Prof Raise
The raise for college instructors
will come from a new formula al
lowing $7.77 per semester credit
hour for all undergraduate work.
It is calculated to yield an average
nine-months salary of $4,200 com
pared to $3,800 actually paid last
year.
A general provision forbids col
leges to add new courses, depart
ments, or degree plans.
As for the cars, a rider on the
bill provides that all state cars,
with certain exceptions, be turned
in to the Board of Control and sold
by Oct. 1,1951. Exceptions are car’s
used by the Department of Public
Safety, Game, Fish and Oyster
Commission, Highway Department,
Prison System and 20 for the Rail
road Commission.
Private Car Travel
From now on, all other state
travel will be done in private cars.
Employees will be reimbursed at
the rate of six cents per mile.
Numerous complaints have been
made by the legislature lately that
state-owned cars are being used for
private excursions and fishing
trips.
An itemized part of the college
appropriations portion of the bill
calls for a trimming to $17,000
plus $1,000 per year allowance in
place of housing and utilities to
James P. Hart, chancellor of the
University of Texas. Regents had
proposed to pay him $20,000 plus a
$5,000 expense allowance.
Research Cuts
Other portions of the committee’s
cost-cutting economy hit college re
search in line with a general policy
to hold down rapidly mounting de
mands of all colleges for research
funds.
With the appropriation bill on its
desk, the legislature must now fig
ure out how to impose new taxes
to raise the money.
T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialists
Leon McClellan, Jack Fontaine, Ed Holder, Bryan
Spencer, Bob Venable, Dale Walston, Bee Landrum,
Frank Davis, Phil Snyder, Art Giese, Cristy Orth,
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Howard Heard Staff Writer^
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Hollis, Pat LeBianc Sports Staff Writers
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Bible Verse
JTET NO MAN deceive himself.
If any man among you seemeth
to be wise in this world, let him
become a fool, that he iriay be wise.
—I Corinthians 8:18.
And he took the stand, too, that his aim of beating the Chinese
into acceptance of a “rational” peace could be accomplished without
any big increase in ground forces there, and without any increase in
present over-all military manpower plans.
Administration Wants No “Bog Down”
The nub of one line of administration argument in the contro
versy has been that the nation must not become bogged down in a
big operation in the Orient that would limit its effectiveness as a
factor in the West.
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