Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1950 — Page 12

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Sond, or Die BRAVE VE Americans in_pitifully little numbers have been ordered to stand or die on that small corner “of Korea they still hold. = Barring some miracle, many it them will die. They will die because their country was not ready /to provide weapons and reinforcements adequate t to, the "necessary mission on which it sent them. > : / _ Shall they die-in vain? fos . While they give all they have for us shall we, who “yet. enjoy .the safety of our homes, waste priceless time debating how much” we can afford to give in order that America may survive? We need a national awakening owotolay. ‘We need to quit creeping and start stridivg toward preparedness. Not the puny, slow-motion program of preparedness. “now proposed in Washington—a program which would: reach its goals in 1952 or 1953 and make us even then only the second military power in the world. If that is all we mean to do, we might as well forget it. We might as well bring home what men ‘are able to escape from Korea, cancel our plans for building planes and tanks, save the money and effort we now contemplate spending and settle back to take it easy while y we can. Tra ; That would Jot be long. — —Ae—

TOO many of our thosen leaders in ung se : playing a perilous guessing game. They do not know what Soviet Russia's plans may be. "They guess that the Kremlin does not and may never want to risk a third world war, but might be incited to assume that risk if America went in for ig. and fast ‘reparedness. = They guess . that perhaps the Red. invasion of South Korea is an isolated incident’ which may not be repeated elsewhere. They guess ‘that ir. Malik may offer an acceptable Korea peace plan as he becomes chairman of the United Nations Security Council. They guess that the American people are unwilling to pay such taxes, make such sacrifices of living standards and accept such governmental controls as would be required if this country undertook an all-out mobilization of its industrial power. And so they guess that it is “safe to undertake only... a slow, partial mobilization and to hope no more will prove necessary. -Safe?It-would-have-been-just-as-safe- to--conelude, on the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1041, that Japanese aggression : intended to Stop ith the bombing of Pear! Harbor.

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“RUSSIAN Communist. aggression has no stopping short of world domination. : There's no excuse for guessing about that. Russia herself, has made it plain as day. And, in all the world, only America has enough potential power to convince Russia's despotic rulers that their ambitions would lead them to disaster. : But power that remains potential will not deter them. Only power made actual with utmost speed can possibly do that. Only actual power as great as huge expenditures of effort, skill and money ¢in make it will reasonably insure America herself against invasion, conquest and destruction. . There is no safety in the little plans now being made in Washington. - : ER CHE RTH EF OR EH rene ROTEL i

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If we do not, their fate may | be ours, and sooner "than we think, pe ‘Give These Kids Help’ Aeiilly _ (COL. MARION P. ECHOLS, public information officer 7 for Gen. MacArthur, is disturbed ver the theme of dents in Korea: complains. that “lous: us. stories” have been coming reporters who have talked with wounded or shellshocked Gls and hay retold at length their. accounts of U."S. troops fleeing, weeping and bemoaning that they were not equipped to face the enemy. =. This officer “seems to be less concerned with. the , accuraéy or inaccuracy of such reports than with the

“These stories,” he is\quoted as saying, “tend to cause loss of ‘faith in the United Stites abroad, even among those ‘Who oppose the Communist cause... Demoralizing accounts of the Korean fighting are frightening men who might otherwise fight on the democratic side.”

lose potential Allies and much needed help if foreign nations get the idea that U. S. Armed Forces are unable to stand up to the Red offensive in Korea. “Please give these kids all the help you can,” he said, appealing to the correspondents for “favorable” reporting of our soldiers’ conduct under fire. The colonel’s point is meant well, but he is propounding a short-sighted and even fallacious policy. ¥ We should reject any idea that many of our fellow -

are standing by waiting to see which is going to be the

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a struggle in which the whole Western world must stand together. If they cannot see the danger to themselves if. the United States is defeated, “their help is not likely to be of much value. - If they need any awakiiting to their peril, the present realistic. and grim accounts from front-line’ American reporters in Korea should serve the’ purpose -well. ‘may be “lousy stories” from-a héadquarters viewpoint, but they are an. immensely effective way of these American kids all the bein we can.

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IN other ‘words, tHe colonel believes we are going to

members of the United Nations outside the Iron Curtain

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‘WASHINGTON, A 1—The picture you get of America today, readi Truman's mail, 1s of a people with a fafrly Sure sense of why we are fighting Korea, a people deeply . troubled but ready to make the sacrifices that may be asked of them, There are exceptions. Perhaps is per cent of the letters are “anti.” Some writers blame the President for getting into the war and demand that it be stopped. There i8 also a small crackpot and Communist party line fringe. But mostly the people are telling Mr. Truman -- they're with him, = Deep. bitterness shows through many, letters”

at rising prices and profiteering which are eat-. ing -more heavily into a fi income. In recent days here has been a increase in’ ;

letters demanding Imposition of all-out price and wage controls, : The President gets all kinds of advice on how to run the war. A Boise, Idaho, man urged the President to write a new per column, the better to keep the people ed about the course of events. rE

Suggestions Offered

A NEW YORKER offered hisown plan of logistics for running the show in Ko describing just where present troops should withdrawn and new troops landed. A Beaumont, Cal; man sent Mr, Truman some sheet music and offered suggestions for combating sabotage and other subversive activiti¢s. A Philadelphian wrote: : “I have seen large retail groups and manu_..facturers repricing Atems which. they have had... “dn stock for weeks and months and gouging the public. I think it is a serfous mistake to listen to the chanting boys—Mr. Taft and Mr. Wherry and still ‘clamor for voluntary controls.” A Greeley, Colo, housewife got out her green ink to write: “I have never been a stool pigeon before but I think I'm doing my duty by telling you of the awful hoarding right here that is going on.” She told of price rises in sheets, sugar and hosiery, named certain ' stores involved and wound up telling the President she knew he had a tremendous job ahead of him and “may God bless you.”

Ne Soft Living

FROM Kerriille, Tex, a woman wrote: “Please believe me, Mr. President, handouig.and soft living wg want. It may seem 80 because so many , aren't awake yet to the danger of Russian ssion which con-

. fronts us, but don't you know millions of people “would change their minds overnight if an‘atomie :

~homb-were to be used in this" “Don’t try to calm our fears: That's what Stalin wants. Tell us what sacrifices we rust make. Tell us now,” A Milwaukee woman protested against raising workers’ taxes. “I just read in tonight's paper that you had asked Congress to increase individual taxes” she wrote. “How do you expect people to live?

I saved $1.56 In the first six months of this

year.” : : A letter addressed; “your excellency,” began: “In the name of God how long will it be before steps are taken to curtail the greed of those who control prices in America? After all the only people who suffer from this are the 60 million wage earners.”

Protests High Taxes

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- roan... protesting... "higher taxes told the President that the “aver-

age wage earner” had put him in the White House and that he'd also put him out, A Knoxville housewife wrote:

“I support your action in defending South. Korea: ‘but- feel it extremely unfair and unjust. to have people take advantage of the war situ-

ation to make huge profits again. I urge you to enact price ceilings immediately.” A Springfield, Mass, World War I Navy veteran: “Even though our ‘fortunes of war ‘are not

' going too well In Korea at present, I congratu--

late you for calling Stalin's bluff and when this is all over it will have been found that he held only a pair of deuces.'” A Columbia, 8. C,, lawyer: _ po “All the South is behind you i “the Korean War, - We have. no’ Communists we know of in this section. The southern people think the

- foreign-born Communists in the North should

be banished from the country “before they engage in sabotage.”

stand fast —stand and prepare all that it takes for them otwers a Pa services to the hema a fraction of thé ror dfomens Seog famppd ome thous ve Le i

the President is kept informed of the trend of

: opinions voiced.

What Others Say—

THEY look altke, they talk alike and they vote alike. In spite of their opposing party

~tabels; they Tepresent- the same “species of pred--AFL President William Democrats.

atory political vulture.

= Green; on Republicans and: Southern : * @

. 1 FIRMLY believe you cay teach better by example than by precept, and that capitalism is the answ

> > & I WANT to assure you that the federal government is developing 4 modern, flexible and practical defense: program. ., . . We have little ~doubt-it-will be adequate to whatever situation an enemy might impose upon us. —Paul J. .Largen, chief of the Office of Civilian Mobilization.

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DESPERATE NEED ... By William Cooper Inexperienced Army a Handicap

FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 1— Combat commanders in the European theater are désperately worried because our invincible war-. time army has melted away in both size and quality. a On paper things seem as they should be.

Meri In the Pentagon can still paint a rosy pic-

ture of the possibilities of rapid expansion. But it's difficult on the windy tank and combat ranges of South Germany where a harried handful of Officers is trying to weld an efficient combat team. They deal with men and

they know war may not be far off,

From talking to many of them I got the impression that today's Army is far below wartime standards and probably not as good a base for expansion as the old peacetime army of 1939. A battalion commander who served with gallantry in World War II explained some of - the reasons. .

Not Idle Chatter

IT WASN'T idle barroom chatter because he was sitting on the dirt floor of a drafty tent, swarm corfee He “had averaged four hours sleep for 10 days and his

jacket was streaked with blood where he'd L

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maturity, to mechanized army. 7 “Inthe old days of the draft almost every man could do something well,” he said. “Today we never get a man with a trade. The Army cin som with private business for the skills it needs.”

~~ Even the traditional American plier and

screwdriver mechanic . with innate skill for learning things has become rare in the Army.

One reason is Handy-Andy farm boys no longer

are providing a good share of the Army's recruits. Farming is too good. The Colonel had another reason: “Most: of Hhtse boys grew up during the war,” he said, “when cars were ‘hard to get and there weren't ey was

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make him a soldier. Then there's long months of schooling to make him a mechanic, radio operator or whatever is needed.

BY THE time he reaches any degree o of, use~

most up. He either goes back to (the United States on rotation or out of the Army. - The darkest side of the picture was painted

TIS SAID

It is not the event but the way, you react to it. that matters. Certainly the recent. world events should send us to our knees in prayer, Prayer that we can talk things out now; ‘before the devastation: B.C. —Indianapolis

one of those countries: be attacked. *'N » - MOREOVER, the Pyrenees mountains afford a natural defense. line for bombing bdses . Jf the Red armies should over-

rope, athe a Also an important. consider ation is Spain's 23 army divisions, backed by a potential

sions. : By comparison, France has only four divisions in Europe, three of ‘which are tied down by occupational duties in Germany and Austria. Italy, dis . armed by the peace treaty, has only seven army divisions, and an alr force of 200 combat planes. Thus : with France

the peace treaty, the potentialities to become a

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; ~FURKEY AND IRAN are “fhe -— barriers . between

problem and troop comm:

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HOW ABOUT SPAIN? . Franco Important Key in Crisis With Russia

POLITICAL considerations which have stood in the way of Spain's incorporation into the North Atlantic defense program _ are likely to be swept aside’ by grim military necessity, now that | military men are being given a larger voice in foreign policy. Spain gudrds the gateway to the Mediterranean Sea, through which we would have to supply Greece, Turkey and Iran, should

“Russia ‘and the, Mediterranean « ports, ‘the oil of the Middle

..run the rest of Western Eu- _

reserve of" 16 ‘additional divi- : _ tary force:of little importance,

weakened by internal dissen-, sion, and Italy by the war and Spain has

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by a chaplain who said today’s Army youngsters have a “shocking” lack of responsibility. He blamed war. and many families where teen-

agers were neglected while both parents worked. ’

The brightest side is the group of excellent senior officers and top non-coms who have

stuck with the Army through bad times and

good since-the war ended. They're probably.the best America ever had, but ovérworked and spread too thin. In the

- shadow of the Russian border thére are young

corporals commanding $10,000 tanks that should have a master sergeant in charge.

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ee SH THE answer to the problem is somethi body here khows, short of another draft or wholesale calling of reservists. It’s not a local ers in Germany know they're as well off, maybe better, than commanders in other sections of the world. It may help explain why American troops in Korea haven't a the miracles some Americans expected. of .them..

planes don’t want

American divisions don’t come cheap. It costs this country three or four times as much to maintain a. division as it does any other country in the world. Pay, clothing, allowances, recreation and food have taken 41 cents out of

every defense dollar since the end of World

War IL One GI-costs this country $4000 a year,

The Defense Department plans to have two . million men in uniform by the end of the year... .. - “As rapidly. as possible, the Army expects to add

240,000 soldiers, giving it 834,000 men in ail The three services probably will have three million men in uniform in 1951, Veéry pointedly, the Defense Department refuses to say what it considers enough. Top men ‘merely say that we've lifted the manpower. ceiling, and we'll add men as long as they're needed.

$25 Billion Plus NEXT year’s military budget undoubtedly will be above $25 billion. The Korean crisis came after planning for a $12 billion peacetime defense budget was well under way. All that work has been wasted. The $12 billion budget was based on a set of assumptions which" are out of date.

Considerable money will be spent to take 4

weapons out of the research and development stage dnd put them into production. cases, this will’ be done before the” scientists

‘and designers want it done. They had expected

several years to work out ir bugs. But the men who must fire the guns and man the caught a second time with more blue; than weapons, The Pentagon is inclined to feel now that crisis can be cleaned up by spring nmer. That, however, presupposes that: a and Red China won’t intervene. On that re, we have no more information than we

“had when the Korean attack was launched.

What After Korea? os

LOOKING far ahead, Pentagon planners are already beginning to worry about what happens after we defeat the North Koreans—if Russia doesn’t intervene, How long, they ask, will the taxpayer support a $25 billion -military establishment not involved in a shooting war? They fear the letdown will be so great that there will be a clamor

to return to a léss expensive defense budget

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issues and moves in the conflict involving the Korean episode, but it might create a clearer perspective if we reviewed the general situation to-date. Clearly, the Soviet or Soviet- fspired partisans have initiated all or most of the active campaigning throughout the so-called cold war period, but their claim that this is a defense against Western (or American) based forces

* scattered throughout every country of the world

constitutes the basis of their contention that.

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against the threat of aggression represented by th presence of these forces. *

el trae EL a government to prevent an attack on North

Korea. % ’ Ppa ye Sy ON THE other hand, charge'that the United States deliberately pulled its forces out of South Korea as a ‘‘come-on” for the ‘opposition to invade in order to provide

initiation of aggressive moves against the

-Soviet world, after almost continuous border skirmishes_along- the 38th. parallel during the

period of partition. All ‘these recent developments must be viewed against the background of history. It has been. the historic policy of the West to “contain” Russia, whether Soviet or 'Czarist. Formerly, the job was England's, and the Crjmean and other wars were fought for this purpose. Similarly, the Allied powers after the first World War invaded Russia in an un-

~ successful attempt to stifle the new regime.

This has not been forgotten, of course, by the present government of Russia, even though

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East and the natural re: sources of Africa. The Turks have 500,000 men in training, and are being supplied with modern American equipment. They probably could withstand an initial Russian assault. But Iran, left to itself, is virtually helpless, with a ‘weak government and a mili-

reasons.

Britain could lend immedi. ©PPOsition.

ate assistance from her garrisons in Egypt, Africa, Cyprus -and Malta, but additional help ‘would bé needed according to military observers. Spain is a logical place to get such help. But the Spanish forces lack modern equipment, and trainEm its use. ESN THE LONGER these deficlericies | are neglected, the less “Spain would ‘be able to do in a pinch'86 if, Spain fs to be brought” into) the Western

; Purpose ‘than to * latest Russian push for the “place in the sun” ‘Which has been her historic objective, ~~ ~~ HR

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‘realize its maximum potential

Spain was blackballed when '- the United Nations was organized, because Franco had been raised to power with the help of Hitler and Mussolini. ” This action was Inspired by the Soviet bloc, “Tor #obvious’ Since that time, Britain and the United States’ -h a ve - not established more - realistic ‘relations with ‘Spain because of French objections, and objections on the part of the left-wing element in the British _ Labor ; French Socialist Party has been the backbone of the French

SINCE the ravasich of Korea, however, Gen. Charles de Gaulle, leader of the rightist opposition “ to the French ‘government, has declared in favor of bringing Spain into the Western camp. His attitude - 1s certain to have some weight be. * SEey .. with ; the French public, and - consequently, some influence upon the present. middle-of-the-road French gove 2 "If there are new elections in

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at length. > » . RUSSIAN expansionism, therefore, is not of récent or ideological origin, buf is a historie effort to break out of the confinement imposed by the West as an economic and political restraint. “Where the earlier goal was merely a warm water port from which Russia‘ could pursue world commerce as a member of the world of nations, the long frustration in this desire

at ‘the hands of determined opponents, chiefly =

Britain in the past, has inspired in her a resentment against whose accumulated power the

- West must now mobilize in a global struggle to

keep the latest lunge from engulfing the world in a Soviet tide. . The

the key to —_ Russian policy. The revival . ot tis ancient Czarist symbol as a popular. hero ovide a Faltying

‘Paying the Difference’ By Hallard J. Garvey, 846 E. Wyoming St.

If you are in the market for a used car. at ._ -& price-you can afford you find a 1948 model

that looks good at $1095. You ‘trade in a fair

car on which they allow. $150: You pay $100" ~§*

move cash and after four paynents of $25 each the “doctored” car starts falling apart. - So you tell the finance company you won't make any further payments. The finance com=. pany gets the éar. Later you get a letter from the finance company. telling you the car will

“be sold and you will ‘have to pay the difference ~ between the selling price and the balance owing

on your original contract, The “finance ' company sells the car for $650 six weeks after I paid $1095 for it. Buy

a car sucker and get hooked. All the Jaws v were

made for those that have.

also shows signs of swinging around to a more friendly at-

titude toward Spain. The left wing.Socialists there, however,

ings with Frante, o THE Socialists are a real threat to unity in all Western European countries. Such groups have strong pacifist - tendencies, and oppose military expenditures at the expense of higher, wages. Extremist among them have Russian sympathies, and many who do not are just as suspicious of « American- capitalism as they are of 8 ’s brand of social ism, ‘Where \such parties hold. r 3 the balance of power, as in ‘France and Belgium, they are capable of great mischief. However, if France continues -to- stall on providing the manpower. needed to’ back up the North Atlantic treaty, the ad~ditignal money Congress will provide for Kuropean. arma--ment must be spent where it “will buy something. Spain160ks like one of- those places,

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