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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1951
Wedemeyer Testifies Before Senate Committee
Has Mac ‘Faded’ Away?...
General Says Bomb Manchuria Rails
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ADVOCATES OF administration foreign
policy had no doubt in their minds yes
terday that Gen. Douglas MacArthur had
not held true to his promise to fade away.
His direct and vehement condemnation of
policies of appeasement loudly announced his
continued presence. The condemnations were
not of the kind that could be ignored or
shrugged off.
Even loyal Texas Democrats cheered
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W/ASHINGTON, June 14—MP)— “might result” in war with Russia,
” Lieut. Gen. Albert C. Wede- but he declared:
meyer urged yesterday that the “It is a calculated risk that per-
when MacArthur bluntly accused “the real States ^bomb^ the Russo- sonally I would^recommend we ac
muni l tee J
Manchuria Hails
* tot a for Chians Kai-Shek's Chinese Na- the I
war-mongers-
Korean War-
see’ ...”
The national
bomb the Russo- sonally I would^recommend we ae- dties^by'u. & warships afonf if getting “arms and munitions” from ^ t „ C -5J n y e ' nan C ° mmUnlSt nl0,e '
, Chinese railroad in Manchuria cept.” necessary. Russia. Wedemever went on to say that
-they who refuse to end the even at the “calculated risk” of Agrees With Early Testimony The three-star general, an expert Wedemeyer: That s a fan state- th f fo d ur of y ficers would repo rt that
tViPv whn nrlvnentp 'wait and igniting World War III. Agrees Wim £,any lesumony on China, gave his views m the m- ment. , ... . thn rhine g e R eds we re “accomn-
■they Who advocate wait and b The 8 railroad> jointly controlled Wedemeyer said he agrees with quiry into the dismissal of Gen- The general said that while he the Chinese Reds, weie ..accomp
by Russia and Red China, funnels earlier testimony by Admiral For- eral Douglas MacArthur as Far was American commandei in
supplies to Chinese Communist est P. Sherman, chief of naval Eas t commander.^ MacArthur was China theater during tne war,
Congress was even then arm i es fighting in Korea.-
continuing its probe into the five-star gen- Planes are now forbidden to
., . i.-n -jd-rri bomb targets north of the Yalu
eral S dismissal by Piesident Tiuman. And Ri ver frontier between Korea and
three-starred Gen. Wedemeyer, like MacAr- Manchuria.
thur an acknowledged expert on the Far Arthuf^liTuiiY, Wedemeyer ^aid
East (especially China), was addressing his bombing the Manchurian railroad
beliefs that more positive action should be
instituted in Korea.
As MacArthur urged decisive action in
Korea, he hastened to reaffirm his distaste
for modern warfare as nothing more than
“mutual suicide.”
His defense of what opponents label war
mongering was that “our action would not AUSTIN, June 14 —hT)— Texas
be aimed at expanding but at ending the doubt would like for them just to
war and thus preventing its expansion.” fade away—but fast.
The speech did not lack in emotional ap- f re m b ° dy Wdnts them—cven f 01
peal. That does not mean, however, that Tbe hex was put on them by the
, n mi /-I legislature that fired broadside at
emotion took the place of reason. The Gen- tbe underworld with a dozen or
eral had an answer—and a reasonable one— more crackdown laws.
y, j- r j-i i 114; j? j-i After Sept. 7, it’s a two-to-four-
for most of the charges and defenses of the ye ar penitentiary offense to get
State Department.
He called appeasement of the
the lishing a great deal militarily—
Uim , he that they were pinning down large
“uncertainty back numbers of Japanese troops, but
sa isms, mss&x * -a „
ports in Manchuna would be “an advocating direct blows against tions m the Orient. ^ ^ ^ ^ “Drop Men Benina Lines
act of war.’
Sherman had said he favors a
United Nations blockade of Red
China but opposes the United
States undertaking it alone.
One-Arm Bandit
Owners Are Ready
boards were set at $100 to $1,000
caught in company with the ma- fines and 30 days to a year. Policy
chine involving a pay-off by chance games got the same fines but with
appeasement Ot tne boviets, — and t] la (; includes marble tables a maximum 90-day jail sentence,
now “engaging in the greatest bulldozing that cough up free games. Illegal manufacture, possession
dinlomacv historv has ever recorded ” a more r i apphes tho , se wh o manu- or sa i e 0 f g 0 of balls were made
uipiomacy insroiy nas ever recoraeu, a more facture, own, store, keep, sell, rent, subject to fines up to $1000 and
likely “indication to war” than a more ag- lend, transport or give them away. j a ji sentences up to two years.
owpQsnvA nnlW IF violates federal law even now Fines for hot checks were set at
tussive puncy. to ship them anywhere except to $200 to $10,000 with two-to-ten-
The General’s assertion that the Soviet, Nevada, where they are still legal. year prison sentences if bad checks
“without committing a single soldier to bat- Sto nofe tolhe^Sikel. 0 ^
tie has assumed direct or indirect control for more.
over a huge part oi the population Ot the suggests a good heavy hammer or
world,” was in itself a major blow against axe as the best way out.
Punchboards and policy games
were also outlawed. Hot check ar-
Red China. “It seemed to me that any con-
Former Secretary of Defense structive purposes or ideas with “I would drop men behind the
Louis Johnson takes the witness reference to that area really had J a p lines_ and I had military ob-
chair tomorrow, ninth in the hear- their genesis in congress, and the servers in teams operating up
ings on Far East policy. opposition to those constructive there, and these reports were not
Once again, Wedemeyer con- ideas usually occurred in the State confirmed.”
tended there should be “no re- Department.” Wedemeyer then recounted a
strictions” to tie the hands of the A ldv i«nrss Wore Critical stormy row he said he witnessed
U. S. field commander in Korea Advisors vveie uriutcU between Davies and U. S. Am-
by remote control from Wash- Wedemeyer said his four State bassador Patrick J. Hurley,
ington. Department advisers in China in “The ambassador alleged that
He had called for an all-out ef- 1944-45 were “very critical” of Mr. Davies had been disloyal to
fort to achieve a “decisive” vie- the Chinese Nationalist govern- him, that he had not supported the
tory in Korea—without bogging m ent and wrote “favorable” re- ambassador, and that he had tak-
down in the “bottomless pit” of a ports on the Chinese Communists. en actions, written reports, that
long struggle—or for the with- n e sa j d the four advisers were militated against the accomplish-
tists were served up a tougher law. drawal of American troops from j 0 h n Service, John Davies, Ray- ment of Ambassador Hurley’s mis-
Tighter restrictions were tied on the battle. mond Ludden and John Emerson. s j on i n China—namely, to support
goof balls—the barbiturate pill that “Plnnlprl On Ground” Service has been one of the the Chinese Central (Nationalist)
puts its victims on emotional jags targets of Senator McCarthy (R- government,” Wedemeyer said,
that often lead to crime. A dozen Today he told the Senators: Wis) in his charges of Red in- Wedemeyer disputed testimony
or more measures tightened tech- “We are planted on the ground fluence in the State Department, i Secretary of State Acheson that
nicalities in court procedures bring- (in Korea) with about 250,000 or Wedemeyer said in response to ^ Nationalists never lost a bat^
ing criminals to justice. 300,000 fine American boys. And questions by Senator Sparkman t , a tke k -^ edg f or j ack Jfl
„ ■ . it is going to be difficult to get (D-Ala) that he did not regard any i mC. ]
I enalty -or I ossession ou ^. 0 f ^at place. And maybe those of the four men as a Communist ' , ^
Penalties for possession of punch boys will be surely needed else- or fellow traveler. + v 1 A f Ch o e r S f° ( !if h w
where in the future.” “No, sir, quite the contrary,” that effect by Maj Gen David
Wedemeyer testified that from he haid. “I thought they were very Barr, apparently seeking to show
V l J ’ Hickenlooper,
opposed "constructive ideas” for Wedemeyer said he could not say from lile
the Far East that the four were deliberately China mainland.
He agreed with Senator Hicken- trying to “undermine” the Nation- Questioned by Senator Brewster
looper (R-Iowa) that since the alist government, but he said their (R-Me), Wedemeyer said lack of
war the United States has “follow- reports w«*e “very derogatory . . . ammunitiion was one of the Na-
ed a policy of diminishing help” very critical of the leader, Chiang tionalists’ “greatest problems.”^
appeasement tactics.
Those who heard the speech could not
help but be impressed by the dramatic and
earnest tones in which it was delivered.
No, the old soldier has not faded away. He
is still a very substantial being. And his
words and ideas, too, bear substance. His
concluding words—“As it (our nation) is un
conquered, so is it unconquerable. It’s his
tory still lies ahead. Our finest hours are yet
to come.” These might apply even to him
self.
Hereford Meeting
Set Here June 30
A Hereford Type and Judging
Conference will be held at A&M
Saturday June 30th according to
Dr. J. C. Miller Head of the Ani
mal Husbandry Department.
Representatives of the American
Hereford Association, Texas Here
ford Association, leading breeders
in the State, and the College Staff
will lead the program and dis-
cussion.
Then just to make sure new and
old crime laws are doing the job,
the House set up a continuing
crime study committee. It will re
port its findings on local crime
conditions to the next legislature.
Its next meeting is June 25.
J Interpreting The News
Who Should Command Mediterranean?
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By A. M. ROBERTS, JR.
AP Foreign News Analyst
^ GREAT deal more than pro-
is involved in the Anglo-Amer
ican discussions over who is to com
mand in the Mediterranean theater.
There is even a question now
whether there will be a unified
command.
Since the United States first
agreed tentatively to a British com
mander on Eisenhower’s southern
flank, to balance Amercan com
mand in the North Atlantic, broad
strategic differences have develop
ed.
At first the U. S. Navy was
somewhat worried about turning
its carrier group—and one of the
biggest peacetime fleets it has
ever assembled—over to someone
else in the narrow waters. But,
confident that the U. S. command
ers would be able to take care of
themselves in the tactical councils,
it was willing to go along.
But then it developed that Brit
ain wanted to include in the com
mand not only the Mediterranean,
but also the Red Sea and Persian
Gulf. The United States wanted to
limit it to the area directly con
cerned with the defense of Eu
rope-going only as far as the
Black Sea, which would become di
rectly involved under the U. S.
proposal for inclusion of Greece
and Turkey in the Atlantic Pact.
The United States would not
want to see the fleet steaming off
in support of British interests in
the Middle East at any time when
it might be needed to support
Eisenhower’s command.
The whole matter of Greek and
Turkish entry into the Atlantic
Pact is involved. There may be,
too, some desire of a reviving
Britain to reassume some position
in the Eastern Mediterranean
which she was forced to surrender
to the U. S. at promulgation of the
Truman doctrine.
Prefer Separate Pact
The London Times said recently
that, “rather than overburden the
North Atlantic Treaty organiza
tion by stretching it too far, she
(Britain) would probably prefer
the practical and efficient alterna
tive of a separate defensive pact
for the Eastern Mediterranean.
There already exists in the Mid
dle Ea,st a British Command or
ganization familiar with the prob
lems of that region; and this does
not come under the Atlantic Treaty
Command. Economy as well as ef
ficiency might be served if this
could be made the main link be
tween the western powers on the
one hand and Greece and Turkey
on the other.
Political Opposition
The United States also would like
to bring Spain into the picture,
but runs into political opposition
in France and Britain. Scandin
avian members, who cannot see
themselves as obligated to automa
tic war in behalf of far away
Greece and Turkey, oppose exten
sion eastward. France is also cool
though perhaps willing to go along.
The divergencies have brought
suggestions’that, for the time be
ing at least, it may be just as
well to try to get along without
a unified Mediterranean command.
Agreement on formation of an
Eastern Mediterranean bloc, how
ever, might be just as difficult,
with Britain correctly claiming the
know how, but America providing
the military strength.
If unification is not obtainable
now, it would nevertheless seem
destined to come eventually, step
by step, through the pressure of
developments.
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Iranian Border
Violence Ends
In Bloodshed
HPEHRAN, Ian, June 14—(TP)—
Another Soviet border incident
—the killing of an Iranian sold
ier broke into the near East oil
crisis yesterday.
A government source said Rus
sians shot the frontier guard. The
Russians declared he had strayed
on the Soviet side of the border
east of the Caspian Sea. An Iran
ian military mission was sent to
investigate.
West of the Caspian, a Russian
commander was reported last week
to have demanded that work on a
dam stop because it was altering
the frontier.
The Iranians rejected the de
mand.
A high Iranian military source
said recently an unprecedented con
centration of Soviet tank, infantry
and air forces was engaged in
maneuvers on both sides of the
Caspian. Foreign informants here
said their intelligence sources had
not confirmed the report.
The shooting was one of a num
ber of similar incidents in recent
years. It emphasized the potential
danger of Iran’s crisis with Brit
ain over oil nationalization.
British Ambassador Sir Francis
Shepherd protested to Premier Mo
hammed Mossadegh last Saturday
that violent radio attacks might
stir up dangerous anti-foreign feel
ing at the Bi’itish-owner Anglo-
Iranian Oil Company refinery at
Abadan. Shepherd said the incen
diary radio attacks had not stop
ped.
Britain has taken precautions to
protect the 2,000 Britons at Aba
dan if necessary, the ambassador
said. He declared Iran’s 1921 treaty
with Russia gave the Soviet iro
legal right to object if Britain
took protective measures.
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