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Exce : In'49 But By $10 Billion

Military Advocates

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sources said today.

The defense budget sent to s by President Truman January called for spending $11 billion in fiscal 1949 on the

Army, Navy and Air Force. Highly P said the

House conference yesterday.

These called for increases in the military budget from $1 billion to $10 billion and spelled cut just what each program ‘Would

rogue Army of 900,000 Men

Defense chiefs consider a $10 pillion expansion necessary to pack the State Department's ok

fensive against communism. would include:

ONE: A peacetime draft law that would draft men from 18 or 19 to 25 to build the Army from its present low of 550,000 up to

900,000 men.

nied EGTON, Mar. 24 The pation’s military leaders will go to Congress tomorrow with proto increase the defense

laced defense sources joint chiefs of staff gave President Truman and Budget pirector James E. Webb several alternative proposals at a White

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Cost Of U.S. Defense

; lle Had ‘Love Affair With Chinese Reds, Chennault Charges

~ Wartime Policy Planned to rg Communists When Chiang Cried for Equipment, He Says

Strike of Printers | Meld Show of Force

By PARKER LA MOORE Seripps-Heward Staff Writer

ROME, Mar. 24 —No newspa-|

(As Told te

would be Communist today.

China consisted principally of increasing demands upon the Chinese Central Government which at their peak in 1944 would have entailed virtual abdication of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. At the same time, the executors of our war policy had been! carrying on a “public love affair”

arm them with American weapous and bring them into Nationalist ' China.

Joke: About ‘Private U. §

It was a common witticism in Chungking at the time that the American hesuquarters staff was developing “a private foreign policy with John Davies (a State Department aid assigned to Gen. Joe Stilwell) as Secretary of State.”

| (Mr. Davies is now a member

TWO: Universal military train-iof the Long Range Planning

ing for all youths upon reaching This training in camps, to be followed by six months in the Reserves, National

their 18th year. would be for six months

Guard or the equivalent. THREE: An Air Force creased from its present 55 groups

in-

Committee of the State Department, a job to which he was assigned by Secretary of State George Marshall, He is in charge of China matters.) At the root of our mistakes in China was the refusal of the!’

and 359.000 men to 70° Air groups Loose Talk Had Stilwell's

and 401,000 men.

World War IIL.

FOUR: A Navy and Marine Corps, now at a low of 483,000 men, raised to the authorized 662,000. The ficet would be equipped with 14,500 cf the latest type carrier based air-

strength of

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‘Defense department

Joint Chiefs of Staff in Key West, Fla,

up our foreign policy.

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This program | would call for equipping the Air Force with the latest type let propelled aircraft developed ‘since

sources said this program was worked out at a secret conference of the

recently. They consider it the minimum necessary to back

But the Yenan mission was

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My subordinates were told ny members of the headquarters

staff that this loose ‘alk had ‘Gen, Stilwell's sanction. I believe that this was indeed the case. But if it were not, Gen. Stilwell's failure to curb such behavior was a fault of almost equal gravity, This was the state of affairs in September, 1944, before Generalissimo Chiang Kai-ghek, refusing the latest and most extreme American demands, forced Stilwell’s recall.

For nearly three years, Gen. Stilwell had persistently pressed for full control of Chinese armias under an exclusively American corps of officers down to rank of colonel. For some time, the Copufitinists (had maintained a mission Chungking as a front for a oo ‘pretense of collaboration with the Central Government against | Japan. Actually, this mission was | ttle more than an. espionage | post and propaganda center. “The principal function of the Red outpost in Chungking seemed to be press contact work. It was an ironical’ though ‘unpublished footnote to journalistic attacks |on the “dictatorial Central Government” that much material for them originated with the Commu- "= mission in Chungking. To that bizarre arrangement, dhe American theater staff evenually added anothér—an Amer|ican military mission to Yenan, | the capital of Communist China. |The justification that was offered tor our Yenan mission was that lit supplied military intelligence {in a theater notably lacking in | such facilities.

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(Third of a Series of Articles) By MAJ. GEN. CLAIRE L. CHENNAULY .-

Clyde Mar, 24-11 American J "Policy had attained its manifest objectives in China during the war with Japan, Chine spe

I don't mean to say that this was the conscious aim in China, but I sincerely believe this would have been the resuit.

American policy as applied during the first three years of our wartime military alliance with

They were planning to use the Communists in battle against the Japanese at a time when Chinese Nationalist commanders, never short of manpower, were begging for Ametican arms and ammunition. ° The strain in American-Chi- | nese relations at the time turned

with China's rebellious and auton- Chungking dinner tables into a omous Communists, hoping to|strange

anda front, where Americans ‘extolled Chinese Communists and berated the Chinese Central government.

. Foreign Policy’

“dinner table clique” to take the Communists’ own word for the fact that world revolution was and would continue to be the Communist objective in China. Social life in China’s drab and battered wartime capital consisted mostly of dinners snd cocktail parties.’ American officers and officials turned them into forums of propaganda for the Chinese Reds and unbridled criticism of the Central Government. Ar.ong these groups it became an easy conversational axiom that the Chinese Communists were not really Communists but just ‘agrarian reformers.”

Sanction

more than a source of intelligence. It served as a convenient bridgehead to the Reds for our military dealings, and an excuse as well as.-a means for occasional trips there by Américan correspondents and such State Department personnel as were partners with out theater staff in promotion of friendship with the Communists.

It the American mission to Yenan was a source of valuable intelligence, there was a sad lack of security on such information.

(TOMORROW: How. Gen. Joe Stilwell wielded Lend-Lease as a club over China. )-

Plane Ride Cures = Baby of ‘Whoops’

| SOUTH BEND, Mar. 2¢ (UP) —Kenneth Cornn, 8-year-old son of Mr. and ‘Mrs. Ephraim Cornn, put one over on the doctor who several weeks ago said an airplane ride wouldn't cure his whooping cough. The physician, Dr. Henry A. Staunton, said today that little Kenneth was in good shape and completely over the whooping cough attack. Dr.’Staunton added that he was 80 surprised and pleased by the baby’s recovery that he planned to install a decompression chamber in his office, to simulate the lower air pressure found at great altitudes. Mrs. Cornn hired -a private plane to take herself ‘and the baby up to 12,000 feet, where they cruised for an hour.

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Jets ha have been published in Italy| for two days.

The ease with which the Com-| imunist Party has been able to stop the nation’s presses because

{favorable to the Red cause in the current political campaign indi-| catés how effective the strike weapon can be when it is under, political control.

{ When America, France and, Britain proposed t Trieste be] returned to Italy Communists

pact that would have on Ralian| voters.

| Seek to Gain’ Time |

With the General Confedera-| tion of Labor under their con-| trol, they immediately called ai printers’ strike throughout the country to gain time so their leaders could go into a huddle | and agree on a counter proposal] which would take the edge off the! Trieste issue. There are seven million mem-, bers of the Italian General Confederation of Labor and not more) than two million Communists in the country. But by having their members in strategic positions in the organized labor movement, the tail is waging the dog. Not only can the- Communists’ close and open thé channels Wo public information at will, they can paralyze the a economy by hajting the machinery of production and distribution | at will.

Show of Force

They are demonstrating this! power at present by calling a succession of pinprick strikes: tending further to disrupt the nation’s chaotic economy. So long as the strike weapon can be used in this manner, the contribution Italy will be able to make toward her own or general European recovery must be seriously discounted. Meanwhile, also, Italians will| have no way of knowing that the U. 8. House of Representatives has voted $55 million in additional aid to Italy, France and Austria, because no newspapers can be printed or distributed until the Communist high command allows the printers to go back to work.

Henley, Vermillion File for Office

Two leaders of the last session of the 85th General Assembly |.oo field declarations of candidacy today with the Secretary of State. House Majority Leader George Henley of Bloomington, and Sen-| ate Minority Leader Walter Ver-| million of Anderson, both filed. | Rep. Henley led the Republican | majority in the House in push-| ing through administration’ leg-! islation during the 85th General Asrsembly in 1947, - Sen. Vermillion, dean of thel Senate, sparked the small Dem-| ocratic minority in a vigorous) “sniping” program against the. GOP majority in the Upper: House. A Senator for more than two decades, Mr. Vermillion de-| livered a speech on the last night of the session Which he described as his “swan song” but he apparently has changed his mind in view of_ today’s filing.’ |

N. E. Smith Given.

Norman E. Smith, office employee of ‘Link Belt Co. Ewart plant, has been awarded the Sol-| dier's Medal for heroism shown Feb. 8, 1947, while serving wien | the Army in Tokyo. Mr. Smith, who is 19 and re-' sides at 258 N. Mount St., was cited for retrieving a baby who fell from its mother's arms as she stepped from a repatriation barge to the shore. The Indianapolis soldier jumped into the water and saved the child from drowning. Mr. Smith, a graduate of Washington High School in June of 1946, entered the service in September, | 1946. He was discharged Jan. 22. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. |

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Air Force Takes | Stock of Industry

Sounds Out Plants On Speed of Output

WASHINGTON, Mar. 24 (UP) ~The Air Force has asked aircraft manufacturers how fast | they could expand to full-scale

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