Battalion Editorials
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1951
WHERE OlL lSNTTUmNGTRICTlON
Here’s a Cheap Investment
CJOMEONE once said you can’t squeeze
^blood'out of a turnip. We feel sure that it
would impossible, but you might try awfully
hard if the blood were needed badly enough.
After the Campus Chest drive fell flat
on its face last month—one of the most un
fortunate events we’ve seen during our years
at A&M—people started wondering whether
or not the Twelfth Man Scholarship could
be continued. /
One faint glimmer of hope appeared. Pro
fits from sale of the 75th anniversary med-
| allions—sponsored and operated by the Stu-
| dent Senate and conducted through the Ex-
| change Store—had been set aside for the
scholarship.
f So now the medallions are being sold in
, the dormitories and over the campus in a
•
Theories Replacing
| Party-Line Thought
SHORTLY after General MacArthur’s dis-
^ missal, the country was sharply divided
along party lines. It now appears that the
main actors are not Truman and MacArthur,
but Marshall and MacArthur.
While the public, as yet, does not have ac
cess to the classified material being used in
the hearings, the Senate at least is getting
the straight facts. Instead of a.party dis
pute, we now have a Senate divided into Mac
Arthur “theorists” and Marshall “theorists.”
The key issue centers around the means
by which each plan is supposedly going to
bring a favorable end to the Korean war.
General Marshall’s testimony on this point
was censored completely.
We must sit on the sidelines and have
faith that our lawmakers will forget poli
tics and solve the problem of Korean casual
ties versus Western unity.
This, we admit, is asking a great deal,
but this is one of those times when party
should be subordinated to the collective se
curity.
final effort to raise the money for the schol
arship. Even if the profits weren’t going
for such a worthy cause, the bronze medal
lion would be a good buy, we believe. Four
bits gives you a lifetime souvenir of A&M
College—your days here, a memory of the
75th Anniversary of the college, and a nice
ornament.
Before you shy away from that salesman,
give the idea a little thought—the fifty
cents won’t bankrupt you, and it will help
bring a deserving man to A&M who couldn’t
otherwise afford an education here.
Bomb China
To Her Knees
fTTIERE is one possibility concerning an
-*■ all out war with China that has not been
universally considered. Former U. S. Am
bassador to China Major General Pat Hur
ley, has advocated bombing of the supply
bases in Manchuria.
In his opinion, the Russians are not ready
for World War III, and action when they
are ready will come in Europe not China.
Most people have balked at the possibility
of conquering China, and this indeed would
be a formidable task. Actually, however, we
are not interested in conquering China. If
China were just neutralized with little or no
power to wage war, we would be free to
meet any other challenge wherever it ap
peared.
It has been said that this action would
unify the Communists, and expose us to re
taliation by planes and submarines. In this
case we can only concede that a calculated
risk is involved, and determine the amount
of confidence that we can place in General
Hurley.
His integrity, and close association with
Far East affairs lead us to believe that stra
tegic bombing should be considered in order
to bring an end to a costly and hopeless con
flict.
Clarification Asked by GOPf
On How to Win the War’
WASHINGTON, May 9 — (A>)-
US Officers Claiming
China-Russia Friction
By JIM BECKER The Chinese, these officers say,
planned to augment their massed
WITH U. S. Marines, Korea, May infantry strength—probably 600,-
T 9 — 0 Z P>—(Delayed) — High- 000 readily available troops—with
placed U. S. officers said today tanks and planes for the big Spring
there are growing indications that offensive.
Drive Set for April
The drive was slated for early
April. The plan was to push mo
bile armor spearheads through a
break forced by the foot soldiers
to slash the retreat routes of the
largely road-bound Eighth Army.
With escape routes closed—and
the North-South Korean road net
work is highly vulnerable—the
Eighth Army units would be sit
ting ducks for Red air, the Reds
believed.
But the promised tanks and
planes never came from the So
viets.
big attempt to hack the U. N.
Army to pieces and throw it into
the Sea of Japan.
No Russian Backing
The Communist “D Day” arrived
without the promised support from
the Russians, according to the U.S.
Letters to The Editor
The letter printed below was
received by Harry Boyer, hous
ing chief, from Mrs. Maurine
Wright of Dallas after the Mus
ter Day ceremony and the MSC
dedication April 21. Her hus
band, Harold E. Wright, ’34, was
killed while in training in 1943.
We believe the letter will be of
interest to our readers and thank
Mr. Boyer for kindly forwarding
it to us—The Editor.
Dear Harry:
I just want to take this oppor
tunity again to tell you how very
much we enjoyed our visit. I will
repeat, I have never witnessed any
thing as beautifully planned and
executed as the services were Sat
urday. Both were most impressive
and I am sure that I express the
sentiments of all Gold Star famil
ies when I say that you have given
to us the strength to carry on.
The friendly attitude of the mem
bers of the faculty and their wives,
the college personnel and their
wives, and the students, is some
thing to long be remembered. I
came home with the feeling that
I had truly been a part of some
thing wonderful. The trip down
there has done more for my morale
than anything else in the past
8% years. I don’t believe I shall
ever forget this visit to A&M.
As I sat in front of the Mem
orial Student Center for the morn
ing service, I think I took in every
part of the building in detail, with
a glad feeling in my heart that if
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Harold did know about it, he was
happy that such a marvelous mem
orial had been erected to those Ag
gies who have gone on. I am sure
that all the mothers, fathers, and
wives felt exactly the same way.
It is a wonderful tribute and
you have the feeling that it is
the very heart of campus life. It is
something to be enjoyed by the
students, all of the college per
sonnel and friends down through
the years. I sat there with a feel
ing of gladness in my heart that
I had ever been a part of the
school and the thought came into
my mind “Here, are the real friends
I have made in the years of my
life,” and I felt so grateful to have
had the few years with all of you
that I did have.
I knew Saturday that I had not
only given up Harold, but I had
given up a way of life that so many
people never have. I know that
things come up to upset people on
the campus, but on the whole you
have something in your way of liv
ing that a lot of people never ex
perience.
Joe put it so well when it said
it was due simply to each person
having a job to do and being will
ing to do it to the best of his or
her ability. The results of this
cooperation was quite evident
throughout the entire day Satur
day. I don’t believe we passed a
group of cadets who did not speak
to us.
The personnel of the college
could not be friendly enough at the
Center and all in all each and
everyone of you did a grand job.
My hat goes off to all of you
who worked so hard on this, and
also so hard on everything that
you have done throughout the
years to create this atmosphere so
when people leave the campus they
can go away feeling like we did
Sunday, of having been among
friends who really cared.
It is difficult to put into words
just how I feel in my heart, but
I hope that I have in a small way
conveyed to you my deepest and
sincerest thanks for giving to me
something that I needed so very
badly.
I feel better this week than I
have in about six weeks, just be
cause I made the trip down there.
It has given me something more
than I can put into words, but you
can be assured that I can go on
again now.
Maurine (Wright)
all is not well with the hammer-
and-sickle wedding of China and
Russia.
These officers said the reports
of friction between the two Com
munist nations over conduct of the
Korean war have come from many
reliable sources.
The most prevalent of these re
ports indicates the Chinese are
highly disgusted with the Russians
for not supplying large quantities
of tank and planes supposedly
promised by the Kremlin.
Marshall Tells
Of Red Dang er
T Saw in 1946’
WASHINGTON, May 9—(/P)
Secretary of Defense Mar
shall said yesterday there was. sourcdsT and’ had"to“ be postponed
never any doubt in his mind
that Red leaders in China
were “Marxist Communists” when
he was there in 1946.
He gave that reply at Senate
hearings when Senator Bridges (R-
NH) told him many State Depart
ment officials were saying in 1946
that the Chinese Reds were “mere
ly agrarian reformers.”
Marshall visited China in 1946
as a special representative of Pres
ident Truman. One purpose of his
mission was to try to close the
gap between the Chinese Nation
alist government and the Chinese
Reds.
Bridges asked if army intelli
gence had not prepared in 1945 a
report—which Bridges said was
suppressed—“which explained that
the Chinese Communists were the
same brand of Communists as were
the Russian Communists.”
Marshall said he didn’t know
anything about that. He added:
“But I have my own knowledge
of when I got out of China and
looked the ground over, from the
very start, and there was no doubt
that the leadership of this group
were Marxist Communists.”
“And when I visited Yunan, in
that mountain fastness of theirs,
in their little theater building
which they used for all sorts of
purposes, and they had some kind
of entertainment prepared for me,
—over the proscenium arch was a
large picture of Lenin and a large
picture of Stalin.”
This anchor city on the Central
front was threatened, as was their
entire buildup area.
UN Gets Draw
Thus U. N. attacks tripped the
trigger on the Red spring offensive
before it was ready. But the Reds
enjoyed teri'ific initial successes
anyway, especially on the Central
front. For 36 hours nothing stood
in the way of a sweeping man
euver that would have done great
harm to the Eighth Army cause—
but armor had not been delivered.
“At first we thought it was a
tactical blunder on their part—not
exploiting their Central front
breakthrough,” a high ranking of
ficer said, “but since the offensive
was stopped we have learned from
many sources that the Chinese did
not follow up their break-through
_ , ... -r, because they had planned on using
Most officers agree that the Rus- pi an es and tanks and the Russians
sians had promised 3,000 modem (jy no ^ deliver them,
combat planes to the Reds for the
Sen. Snowland (R-Calif) said
today Republicans will demand a
“clearer answer” from Secretary of _
Defense Marshall on how the ad- party colleagues, told a reporter
ministration expects to end the Ko- he isn’t satisfied with Marshall’s
rean war. explanation of . how the Korean
Marshall s'aid yesterday that fighting can be brought to a suc-
breaking the morale of the Com- cessful close,
munist armies and destroying their “That basic question has not
best forces holds “the best prob- been answered yet by General Mar-
ability” of reaching a satisfactory shall,” Knowland said,
basis to talk peace. Senator Benton (D-Conn) told
With a partisan split widening the Senate yesterday the Presi-
over the ouster of Gen. Douglas dent’s “steadfast” policy “was re-
MacArthur, Democrats defended sponsible for the greatest defeat
President Truman’s limited Korean Communism has suffered—the loss
war policy, asserting similar tac- of Yugoslavia.” This came about,
tics had defeated the Communists Benton said, because of the success
in Greece and in the Berlin block- of the program of aiding Greece,
ade. Those were two points Mar- Senator Long (D-La), an Armed
shall made. Services member, said it hasn’t
Marshall goes back before the been demonstrated to him that the
Senate Armed Services and Foreign pi'esent policy of taking a heavy
Relations Committee today (9 a.m., toll of Red Chinese in Korea—
EST) for GOP questions on his without risking air attacks on Man-
long-term policies toward China ehuria won’t work,
and Democratic queries about the cited Marshall s testimony
yesterday that there had been one
school of thought that Americans
ought to shoot their way through
the Russian blockade of Berlin. In
stead, Marshall reminded senators
that the airlift, though costly, did
not involve any shooting and did
break the blockade.
Senator Bridges (R-NH) said
Marshall is going to be called upon
to explain at much more length
than he did yesterday his part in
unsuccessful attempts in 1945 and
1946 to end the Chinese civil wah
power Russia could throw into the The indications were Marshall
battle for Asia if the Soviets chose, might be on the stand for several
Senator Knowland, obviously days more,
voicing views held by others of his
Chinese Disgusted?
“We hear that many top Chinese
generals are disgusted by this Rus
sian failure to deliver. Our infor
mation sources believe the Russian
reluctance to expend valuable tanks
and planes is due to the heavy
losses of Russian armor suffered
by the North Koreans when the
Meanwhile, the Eighth Army U. N. forces burst from the Pusan
pressed closer and closer to the
Reds’ “Iron Triangle” buildup
cl TO cl.
Finally, the Chinese were forced
to atack when patrols reached the
outskirts of Chorwon, north of the
38th Parallel on the West Central
front, due north of Hwachon.
perimeter and drove clear to the
Yalu.”
However, few front line observ
ers believe the Chinese will quit
their pursuit of U. N. forces into
South Korea before they mount at
least one more attack, even if they
must use only foot soldiers.
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on a six-months t our under the
auspices of the ECA, is visiting
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