Battalion Editorials
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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1953
A Choice, A IS etc Freedom
/"iNE OF THE BEST cases of indirect de-
^ nunciation of the present United Nations
policy on aggression appeared in the Profile
magazine of the University of Cincinnatti
about a year ago.
While The Battalion does not concur en
tirely with the views expressed they do con
stitute a reasonable facsimile of the thinking
of a large segment of the American populace
even today. We quote:
Remember, back in 1946, during the
American-Russian occupation of Korea, it
was quite obvious to our men that the Rus
sians were up to no good. To any of the
American soldiers who had to ride through
Russian occupied territory in old, beat-up
“six-byswho saw the row on row of lend-
lease trucks stretching away to the dull
brown hills of the “Land of the Morning
Calm,” the shipping-paper still stuck to their
new windshields; who awoke at two in the
morning to the tune of Russian tanks rum
bling past their outposts; who played chess
with the Russians, drank with the Russians,
had “border incidents” with the Russians,
it was pretty plain that something was brew
ing. Many of those G.I.s who did outpost
duty on the thirty-eighth parallel in those
days of uneasy peace still remember the
hoarse cries of panicked men, the clutching
at rifles, the envirionment of days among
the barren hills and rice paddies when some
drunken soldier bellowed “The Russians are
coming” in his besotted frenzy during the
dark, silent hours of the morning, before the
scrawny Korean chickens began to crow.
And many of the G.I.s who came back
from that disease-ridden country, where the
fields reek with night-soil in the spring;
where fierce North Korean Communists
raided villages, locking up the police in their
own jails; where the whining anopheles mo
squito took a ten-percent toll of a man’s out
fit; and where the Japanese had left their in
delible mark upon a people, will remember
that they said, “That is where it’s going to
start!” to their friends and relatives, who
pooh-poohed them, optimistically watched
the new, hopeful UN making its fitful, ideal
istic start in this country.
“You walked out on the League of Na
tions, that's why it didn’t succeed.” We
have heard that old wheeze for thirty years
or more, and mostly from the very nations
that really undermined the organization. “It’s
all your fault,” they said, “you were the miss
ing prop that made the great experiment
flop.” This time, at the close of the Second
World War, we determined that we would
show them that we had the right spirit of
idealism; we would show them that we would
•
Las Vegas (Nev.) Review-Journal: “Sin-
. gle business girl wants small apartment con
venient to strip.”
Jersey City Journal: “Woman wanted as
housekeeper; no clothing.”
Cottage Grove (Oreo.) Sentinental: “Lost
—Black pocketbook with old 1st Nat’l. Bank
on it.”
Report of a cloudburst at Rawlins, Wyo.,
as carrried by the United Press: “Most res
idents battled the waters without the aid of
fire and police departments and damage was
slight.”
Russians Pull Peace Tal k Strings
not only join a world organization, but that
we would sponsor one; and so the UN was
born, in that characteristic American “all
out” vigor.
In the background, a few small voices
cried, “Beware of foreign entanglements,”
and “Don’t forget what Monroe said;” but
they were soon labeled “Isolationists,” and
drowned out amidst the generally enthus
iastic shouts of “Peace! Peace! The world
has learned its lesson, and will have peace!
Man has at last seen the benefits to be de
rived from living at peace with his fellow-
man.. The brotherhod of man‘ That’s the
thing. The brotherhood of man!”.
Somewhere a group of men sat and plan
ned the undermining of the UN, hidden by
the rest of the world’s hysterical shouts of
joy. The group of tasteful buildings at Ge
neva were empty and useless, it remained
only for another group of buildings to be
erected and subsequently to be rendered in
effectual.
Now we have entangled ourselves thor
oughly in the tentacles of international in
trigue. We are shown, with daily increasing
emphasis, that a nation will not give up its
sovereignity for the sake of another. Here
is the crux of the matter. Will Britain stop
her trade with a nation and take up arms
against it for the sake of the general welfare
of the world ? Will France send troops to
’ fight in a land where she has no territorial
interests? Will Holland stop trading and
fight with a nation to which she sends her
industrial products ?
Certainly. Certainly the member-states
of the UN will join in concerted military ac
tion ... on paper; but- when the time comes
to act, to fight, will England send more than
a token force? Will France send more than
a two-ship task force? Will Holland send
more than a hospital corps unit? We don’t
know if any other nation in the world is so
full of naive optimism as we are; but we still
have hopes, although they are not so naive as
thty used to be. Day by day, like Swift’s
Gulliver, we are being dives.fed of our open
faith in human nature, until, and this must
be our only saving feature: we do not trust
any one, and proceed with the utmost cau
tion in international affairs, being careful to
consider our welfare alone, above all else; be
come almost wholly, if not totally, selfish in
the interest of saving our own skins.
No, we are not “Isolationist,” we only
want to know how long the United States is
going to handcuff itself to a debating-so
ciety, composed of weak-kneed, appeasement-
minded bankrupts. There is a choice; either
we abandon the United Nations and strike
out on our own, or we take an autocratic lead
in that organization until such time as it
learns to act together toward a purpose to
commensurate with its name.
In either case, it is obvious, from where ,
we sit, that America must again engage in
an all-out war. As long as there are men who
are willing to sacrifice other men’s lives on
the altar of their ambitions, we shall be forc
ed to fight; but must have freedom to battle
for our way of life. There were once four
freedoms—there is now a fifth: the FREE-
, DOM TO FIGHT.
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tary duties,” the report declared.
It said Nam’s job included the
supervision of the agents who in
filtrated Allied POW camps and
organized the Koje, Cheju and Pon-
gam riots. He was listed as cul
tural chief of staff of the security
agency for the North Korean army
and responsible for insuring loyal
ty by controlling all political offi
cers and commissars.
The intelligence summary said
the Communists ignored the Gene
va Convention by considering the
prisoners in Allied camps as still
being “fighters” in the war.
The Allied intelligence officers
said the Communists views was re
vealed “with exceptional clarity
and fullness in a hand written ex
hortative party summary of the
results of the Pangam riot last
Dec. 14. In that attempted mass
breakout eighty-five prisoners were
killed and 13 wounded.”
The lied document said that
while the breakout failed the “main
purpose is to develope a class fight
to give the enemy a crushing de
feat.”
The prisoners “lost nothing but
their lives in the fight, and these
were for liberation and glorious
victory.”
The Red document continued that
a great victory had been won by
compelling tht U.N. command to
disclose the Pongam incident
“w i t h o u t concealment, to the
world.”
The U.N. command said the
Communists set up a fantastic
chain to put their plans into opera
tion.
Gen. Nam II kept close liaison
between Panmunjom and his com
mand at North Korean army head
quarters through Gen. Kim Pa, the
former Soviet secret police agent.
Meanwhile, male agents were dis
persed along the front and allowed
thewselves to be captui-ed. Female
agents were sent down as refugees
with instruction to live near prison
er camps.
Within the compounds, hard core
Communists were organized into
military and political cells. Com
munications were maintained by
whistling, chanting, semaphore
flags, and a message courier sys-
tern.
“In the armistice negotiations,
only one major issue remained, re
patriation of prisoners of war,
Nam’s delegation began to stall,
and Communist propaganda be
came more vehement. That was
the moment chosen for the Koje
prisoners to mutiny.”
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Today's Issue
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LETTERS
Editors, The Battalion:
The civic mindedness of College
Station might well be considered
one of the most amazing social
phenomena of all time.
As we make plans to send part
of our children to school in shifts,
we question our ability to finance
adequate school facilities for all of
them.
Yet, in this same disaster area,
we consider voting in our next mu
nicipal election as to whether \ve
I should authorize a tax increase of
ten cents per hundred dollars of
assessed property valuation to sup
port a municipally conducted rec
reation program.
Are we so highly progressive as
to serve our youth frosted cake
even if we won’t give them enough
vegetable and meat? “Forgive us,
children, for we know not what we
| do.”
Marvin H. Butler
College Station, Tex.
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Will Meet Monday
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of the First Baptist Church will
have a business meeting and mis
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Building at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
Mrs. Cliff Itansdell will be the
leader.