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HOUSTON — A researcher studying the private writings
of President Harry Truman has discovered Truman con-
idered the nuclear annihilation of major Chinese and Soviet
sities as a method of ending the Korean War.
The Houston Chronicle reported Sunday that Rice Univer
ity historian Francis L. Loewenheim found handwritten
memoranda in Truman’s private journal. The entry has
stunned even Truman’s top advisers.
The discovery was made in a passage written by Truman on
an. 27, 1952.
“It seems to me that the proper approach now would be an
ultimatum with a 10-day expiration limit informing Moscow
that we intend to blockade the China coast from the Korean
securih |border to Indochina and that we intend to destroy every
and (lit nilitary base in Manchuria, including submarine bases, by
neans now in our control and if there is further interference
we shall eliminate any ports or cities necessary to accomplish
Our peaceful purposes.
“This means all out war. It means that Moscow, St.
etersburg, Mukden, Vladivostok, Peking, Shanghai, Port
rthur, Dairen, Odessa, Stalingrad and every manufacturing
ilant in China and the Soviet Union will be eliminated. This
is the final chance for the Soviet government to decide
whether it desires to survive or not. ”
- Truman’s memoranda were part of an intermittent journal
all in his own handwriting that he kept during his nearly eight
, Bears in the White House from April 1945 to January 1953.
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We did not start this Korean
affair but we intend to end it... ”
force the Soviet Union to free East European satellites and
stop worldwide communist aggression.
The Chronicle contacted several Truman advisers and each
was surprised.
Averell Harriman, then special assistant to the president,
said that on no occasion “was this subject ever discussed
between us.”
Gen. Matthew E. Ridgway, then UN commander in
Korea, said, “I never had an intimation that the president had
any such thoughts.”
After retiring, Truman retained custody of his personal
records in his own wing of the Truman Library at Independ
ence Mo., closed and inaccessible even to the official
archivists at the library, Loewenheim said.
After his death in December 1972, the records were
transferred to the custody of the library. They had never
before been reported.
Loewenheim said a preventive strike against China and the
Soviet Union was discussed publicly from time to time during
the Korean War but Truman and leaders of his administration
invariably declared themselves strongly opposed to any such
action.
When Navy Secretary Francis P. Matthews advocated
preventive war in an address in Boston in August 1950, he
was chastised promptly by Truman, removed from office and
named U.S. ambassador to Ireland.
When Maj. Gen. Orvil Anderson, commandant of the Air
War College, declared soon afterward in an newspaper
interview that the Air Force, equipped and ready, only
awaited orders to bomb Moscow, he was retired im
mediately.
In April 1951, Truman dismissed Gen. Douglas MacArthur
partly because of the widespread concern that the Far
Eastern commander’s aggressive views and proposed policies
might lead to all-out war between the United States and
China and perhaps the Soviet Union, Loewenheim said.
“Dealing with the communist governments is like an
honest man trying to deal with a numbers racket king or the
head of a dope ring. The communist governments, the heads
of numbers and dope rackets have no sense of honor and no
moral code,” Truman wrote.
“We did not start this Korean affair but we intend to end it
for the benefit of the Korean people, the authority of the
United Nations and the peace of the world.”
On May 18, 1952, Truman wrote that the conferences on a
Korean armistice were “propaganda sounding boards for the
commies.”
“If you signed an agreement it wouldn’t be worth the paper
it is written on,” he wrote.
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