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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola IT'S AN old Hoosjer' rooms. If an ol' Hoosjar .have known it, |. Furthermore, now is the is the mushroom ang John Winthrop Ave, i If there are any It was pure

cusfom tn hunt mush

me and the more

mushrooms, he'l) find t luck that .g hems

was able to mushrooming with Mr, Cottingham and Aah student of fungi, Johp C. Tacoma. State Ente

mologist Frank Wallace p Mr. C. . "When T approached Mr. rooms he simply thre up h to get in touch with the man about mushrooms than anvone Mr.. C. was goin called. In fact, this ear hunting is practically a daily et ore Before the three fungi pic i dean of mushroom “seekers smart man never says he he can get mushrooms Mr. C. are unpredictable, They) one year, and not the mext,

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experience and" intuition,” saiq Mr. “And lutk.” laughed Mr. Tacoma Our first stop was a v Mr. C. had found morels soft, moist promise,

For an hour we tramped with our noses to the ground. In that weed patch we found two old golf balls and two snakes. An ardent mushroom picker, I noticed, has about the same puilssophy As a fisherman. He never loses ope. e always knows anothe y he'll have luck. her 2094 Wher Morels thrive best according to the two experts, along dry creekbottoms bases of decayed elm trees and apple orchards and places you

never expect to find them. They covered a lot of territory,

Cottingham acant Jot off 40th St there last year, ground and willow bushes

Far out on Fall Cre:k Pkwy. where homes are still scarce, we invaded a low stretch of land where “there ought to be pienty of mushrooms.’

EX oh oe OUR FIRST find was a gopher. crossed our paths. tne senior “expert.” sald if there were morels anywhere. they ought to be in that area. The search was intensified. I became so interested I almost forgot my fear of snakes ‘in the hip-high weeds. E Something short, wrinkled and tan wag sticking out of the matted grass. Could that thing be a more]? Gingerly 1 pulled it up and showed it to Mr. Cottingham. “John, he's got one. They're here: "In a matter of minutes the beginner, the greenhorn, had five fine morels. The experts

It Happened Last By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, May 4—It appears that all my good ideas come from my beautiful wife. “Somebody.” she remarked. “should write a piece in appreciation of the working girl . .." (Now whom could she have meant by “'somebody") “You took the words right out of my typewriter,” I said. “Who appreciates their lovely figures, their pretty legs: their joie de vivre, their bounce, more than I do? Who looks at them more than I do as they go bouncing byl" “Please, let's don't be so physical.” the B. W-. said coolly. All the same I admire their chic in these high-price days when grocery bills eat up their salaries. The “poor workin’ goil’ of yesterday's still poor. But she doesn’t say woik. nor goil.

Then a snake Mr. Tacoma began to needle

She's informed. She knows how to dress how to handle wolves . . . and bosses . . . and columnists, 3 ¢ ¢ BUT IS she happy? No. Alas! (Alas for a lass.)

She wants a husband. Her own, preferably. A handful of working girls get that Big Break. Ethel Merman the Stenog Who Made Good on Broadway. was. joined this year by Isabel Biglev. a secretary who auditioned on her lunch hour and Is now a big hit in “Guys & Dolls.” .> & +4 BUT - WHAT of the other poor things who never get: famous but also long for their very own brute? Maybe they think if they'd been less finicky, they could be married and gloomily washing dishes for vears to come, In our little manse, mv Gorgeous Mother-in-Law argues that housework’'s harder than office work. > ne > She's never done office work. The B. W. argues that office work's harder. (She's never done any housework.) Well, not much, anyhow. -They argue it till our dog Cookie separates them. “> >

“YOU MEAN dish-washing's not boring?" says the Gorgeous Mother-in-Law, answering one of the arguments. “Yes. But you can do it any time vou want to. Without some boss hanging around watching you,” says the B. W. » + & NOW HOW did I get in the=middle of this? All T wanted to say was that I for one appreciate how hard ‘it is today for a working girl td live and eat and dress and conduct her perpetual manhunt,

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, May 4—This is a peculiar season. The dogwood blooms, hope springs eternal, and the editors migrate to Washington and New York to drink nourishing whisky and diagnose their business pangs. There are many topics for editors to dissect. One is syndicated writers. At this time of the year a syndicated writer is an abomination before the Lord. I never really understood the springtime antipathy, because I am one of the base critters myself, and am possibly prejudiced. I have been known to bleed when cut and laugh when tickled, and the tax laws still apply. For years now I have been expecting to see a law passed making it illegal for a man to work for more than one paper at the same time, unless he works for a news service, in which case

' he is pardoned.

We note from two news magazines that a veteran newspaper publisher has done lit out after us hoss thieves again. He prickles out in a violent rash at the thought of a man writing the same piece tor feyeral papers. “f THINK,” says he, “that the syndicated column is one of the biggest rackets ever put over on editors. A page of these syndicated columnists is a perfect reproduction of the yakety-yak that fills the room after the third or fourth dry as huris. We know all these facts, us racketeers do, but hate to have them spread around, because It affects our livelihood. If enough of these convening editors get to thinking the same way we'll have to go to work, a horrid thought even if it involves somebody else. Even racketeers must eat. n iy The gentleman is blunt to the point of making me cry. He says he wouldn't trade one experienced reporter for all the syndicated columnists he could crowd on whatever the

e of his paper is. nam . »

OF COURSE, he is so right about the syndieate kids. All of us started from scratch, with no experience, for nothing less than $1,000,000 a month. 1 have personally eaten only hummingbirds’ tongues rolled in honey for years, and my

hadn't told me, I'd never

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is hands and told me who knows more

RB morel hunting the day 1

1 pickers started out. the

the knows for sure where

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MOREL — Only

the" little “people “know: all ‘the secrets. :

hadn't found a one. Mr, Cottingham found his first when’ I had nine. The bottom of the small basket was covered before Mr. Tacoma found his first, 1 We went through that creek bottom as if we were after gold. When you found one, there were more around if you looked hard enough. Every mushroom brought a ‘shout. We quit counting. Se a

MR. COTTINGHAM finally announced we would be wise to try another spot. At the base of the rise leading to the road, I yelled at the sight of two fine specimens not more than 12 inches. from Mr. Cottingham's shoe. The discovery prolonged our stay another 15 minutes. No luck. “Let's try Woollen's Gardens,” suggested Mr. Cottingham. “We may be a little early for that spot, John. but it's worth a check.” To get to the spot and con® out again required an hour and a half of climbing, slipping * and puffing. over hill and barbed wire fence. We saw a lot of pretty spring flowars-and lush vegetation. Mr. Cottingham saw two small morels. We were early. In about four or five days the place would be covered with mushrooms Great sport this mushroom hunting. morels are supposed to ba‘ the tastiest of all mushrooms. I wouldn't know. No cooking facilities in my bachelor quarters. You'll have to take the experts’ word for it if you don't know already. Remember, too, mushrooms grow in the screwest places. So screwy, Mr. Cottingham hesitates to call his spots.

And the

Tosses a Bouquet To the Working Girl

I wish her luck in her search for happiness. She'll need it. The men are gettin’ slipperier and slipperier. Not ornrieer, I- don't think. It seems ‘they've found out about high prices, too. oe oe oo THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . NBC's swinging a big economy ax, in radio, with plenty of heads to roll . . . Because Olivia De Havilland likes to be called “Mrs. Goodrich,” her friends now call her “Olivia De Goodrich” . . . NY's a friendly town.. A sailor waiting near a show on 44th St. reports that strangers offered him a free ticket to "Guys & Dolls,” “South Pacific’ and “The - King & I" . . . Bob Preston replaces Jose Ferrer in “20th Century” June 2. € ob GOOD RUMOR MAN: They want Fred Allen for a B'way show . . . Sally Rand, having bean soup at the Stage, laughed when reminded -she once had “the prettiest legs in Kansas City High School” . , ! James Melton, spending from his own pocket to put on a good TV show, - was disappointed when Jackie Gleason walked off ~this.wk's.program.—Jaek-Pearl— steps in . , . Barry Gray's trying to get D. Walker. H. Gardner and E. W. to sub for him during his European vacation . . . Eva Gabor leaves “Happy Time.” not to get married —to rest in California . . . Current Vogue's the talk of publishing circles. , hea : B'W AY BULLETINS: The B'wayite with" the initial “G.” wanted by Kefaunver. is in Cuba . . . Police are trying to _vank La Martinique's cafe license after its Mistinguette beef, and the U. 8. marshal will auction its assets Sunday . . «Abe Burrows, who fixed “Make a Wish,” is the highest-priced iy rewriter: Got $500 a day

Eva Gabqr

and expenses for three or four weeks. vers says his technique should be called “The | Burrows Solution” . .. Banker-Author Ed Streeter | got a kick meeting Joan Bennett and Spencer | Tracy, who starred in his "Father of the Bride.” | oe: oh TODAY'S WORST (BY FAR) PUN: The reason I eat smorgasbord is I have a Swede tooth.— Dick Barston. | Art school janitors have a great life. savs Jan Murray. who claims they get $50 a week and all they can see. . , . That's Earl, brother!

* Bob Lets Go Al Critie Of Syndicated Writers

wprk is compiled for me by a combat team com- | posed of Ann Sheridan. Ernest Hemingway and | Gen. MacArthur. The General does all my military stuff. When they bandv our names around so loosely, in comparison to some amateur bird watcher who | still drinks hand-set whisky ‘and pies his own | type, I like to think about the syndicated writers such as Ernie Pyle. That Pyle was a real bum, | in the accepted sense of syndication. : » BD ‘ HE WAS pushing 40 before he hit his columnar stride, and had been such things as a managing editor before the urge to write oppressed him to | his Iasting disgrace. Counting his grueling trips | around the nation and the world, and his frontline time in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, England, the Pacific that killed him, poor old Ernie qualified ' as less than a lazy legman, even if he was sinfully distributed to more than one paper. i I know of no noble yokel whose heart belongs | to one, single subscriber sheet who puts in more | work hours than Freddie Othman in Washington, | a syndicated courtesan who crochets lace pants | on the daily doing of Congress. Or any police | reporter who mines a beat more thoroughly than Lenny Lyons, who invests 10 hours a night, dead cold sober, among the bore§ of the saloon set, Or Peter Edson of NEA in Washington. who is always the guy you see going out of the office you enter.” With the information you came to get. In his pocket.

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vb NOT BEING a noble man, either in-the mind or in the performance, I cannot offer myself as an example of frugal industry in the business. My only contribution of lasting culture was an interview with a strip-teaser’s mother. golly. I scooped the local Brisbane on her. I was proud of that one, because the local boy

Largely, though, I do not intend to fight with the gentleman about thi® thing of syndication. We are properly repentant for our sins of multiplicity in clients. One realizes the basic shame of one's estate, one sure docs, but gracious. I am too old to he a copy boy nr even city editor of a sheet that fancies executives with their own’ hair. Sie F Evershvay has to make a living, and I still tell mother that 1 am running numbers for

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—— + i By United Press | | WASHINGTON, May 4 — Following is a condensed transcript! of today's MacArthur hearings {before the Senate Armed Services land Foreign Relations Committees: : Sen: Brien McMahon (D, Conn’) yesterday vou . said {that the drive in November was ‘a reconnaissance in force: Is that correct? ? Gen. MacArthur—That is cor-. ‘rect, yes, sir. ; Bad en. McMahon'— Last Noyem: {ber you issted a communique in {whieh you said that this was the! end-of-the-war offensive which, |would bring the boys home by |Christmas. i Gen. MacArthur—That was my | hope. | Sen. McMahon--Did you antici|pate that you. could get them | nome by Christmas with a reconinaissance in force? | Gen. MacArthur—The recon{naissance would have developed [the strength of the enemy. If it {was not sufficient to resist us, it! {would have been an all-out as-| isault, as I explained-in my com-| ‘munique, it would have un-!| |doubtedly destroyed the last remnants of the North Korean forces . ..

All Movements Had Prior OK of Joint Chiefs

Sen. McMahon —-Was there anv difference in opinion bétween you and the Joint Chiefs relative to yhow far vou would go toward the Yalu ...? Advance? Gen. MacArthur The movements, all tactical and strategic movements that I made had the {prior knowledge and approval of ithe Joint Chiefs of Staff. Sen. McMahon— Was there any {recommendation by the Joint Chiefs that it would have been {wise . . . to stop about five miles {this side of the Yalu on a defensi-| {ble ridge” Gen. MacArthur — The [Chiefs of */be’ probably advisable, based upon

|were adverse to having other na-! {tionals there. But the

| Koreans were not able to do so. [a | Sen.

{tioning concerning the global im-|

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{Senator. That is not exactly what stili + I intended to. convey theater? Gen. MacArthur—I believe the mander was only concerned in theater commander has the re- { jeg insof is own sponsibility of h Ea adie Ca eh co-or- Views as he might see fit, if they YOU make a pretty good specula. | ‘dinate the demands of his own are honest views.and not in con- tion if Russia does not .come in {nquvitably it is advantageous |theater with the global problem; tradiction to any implementing'and we do go {a general knowledge of the global Sirectives that he may have re- limited way. i ceived. on a sures. TecessAlY. I do not believe the implica- are reputed to have, or the 18,000 General, you tions of your question that any operational

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roblem y all theater commanders. Sen. McMahon

my own area. My concepts on,

{swer that query, not me.”

With Global Strategy

Sen. McMahon . . .This committee . . . has a very grave duty of

of this country. We are not con-

We are called upon to implement an over-all strategy. . .. In your speech to the Congress you stated as follows: “The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector oblivious to those of ‘another is to court disaster for the whole.” Gen. MacArthur—Correct. you are aware . . , of the meset up for carrying out . . . global defense as a whole. You are aware that

our

States passed what is known as the National Security Act. . .

President, the Vice President, the!

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[TRANSSIBERIAN R TAXED TO LIMIT; COULDN'T MOVE MORE TROOPS EASTWARD |

PEIPING

CHINA

As a theater commander I had my own responsibilities made my own recommendations, {and would again. Joint jagreed Staff believed it wouldiauthority the

judgment of that higher authority the considerations at that time, ,g

(to occupy the north of Korea would not attempt to pase judgwith South Korean forces. They ment upon it. . .. If I were a theater commander tactical and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in [conditions were such that South their superior authority gave me directive which McMahon — Yesterday, with, 1 still would implement it | General, I pursued a line of ques- to the very best of my ability. Sen. McMahon— 'plications®of your proposals, and consider, General, that it comes {you informed me that being a!within the province of a theater [theater commander you had not commander to taken those into consideration. with persons in ‘political ilfe, or, out of it. for that matter, his difminute, ferences of opinion while he is in active

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stated in answer to my question Segment - of | las to whether or not we were Shall be so gagged that the truth of atomic weapons, is that not| ready to withstand the Russian and ‘the full truth shall not be true? i lattack in Western Europe today. brought out. I believe it is in the Gen. MacArthur —— Senator, I interest, the public interest, that to say, as you vourself said ves‘have asked you several times not diverse opinions of any contro- terday, ‘to involve me in anything except versial issue shall be fully aired.’ China's potential Sen. McMahon—Now, let's as-| global defense are not what I am sume, General, that one of your | munism (here to testify on: I don’t pretend subordinate generals in the thea- why, [to be the authority now on those ter of your command had felt as Senator. : |{things. When I was the Chief of you feel ... Do I take it that you: Sen. M¢Mahon—. (Staff 20 years ago. that was my would defend problem and I would have an- brigadier general on {swered it. The Chiefs of Staff or give -his-opinions- as others here are the ones to an- that was proceeding

being proceeded with by the gov-ito it ‘ernment of the United States?

‘l Do Not Believe In the Gag Rule . .

Gen. weighing all factors in the defense have a brigadier general or anyone else on my staff that didn't’ fined to a theate of operations. freely and frankly give me his . opinions in contradiction to my Never Said We'd own. The very value of a subordinate is the freedom with which he expresses his initiative . . . Sen. McMahon——I fully agree we would ever take over China, with you that it would be a poor Senator. commander,. a poor executive of vesterday, any kind, who ing “ves men” around him . . however, General, tha. isn't Sen. McMahon—Now, General, What T am talking about. I assume that vou had the right

chanics that this government has — and exercised it at any and all you have no opinion to give us times—to bring any

Sen. McMahon— . . , what T was setting T2ising was the question of the as lup the national security agency advisability, if not the propriety, which provides that the member-|Of any subordinate military officer 'h Ship of the council, the Natipnai{l0-take his differences of opinion Chief of Staff of the Army, you om, “¥ Security Council, should be thel: iL to people in political lite. én, Secretary of State, the Secretary KNOW what you mean by ‘pe of Defense and the chairman of/iD Political life,” Senator. Sen. McMahon—We have youricount? ‘has been set up by this Congress|answer, General, in the letter.to

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Gen. MacArthur—How would 1 four years we have a referendum d I know? Sen. McMahon — Would you based upon that. If they dis- think that the Kremlin was the those of higher place that might be the loei? question of the

with that purely democratic method that it is one. within my hands and I' it was . .. the main place? Gen. MacArthur—I think world not agree. public opinion would so locate it. Sen. McMahon—General, if we tween pure démocracy and a re I disagreed with China, will: you tell this government. The latter is wha committee how the strength of we're operating under. the Soviet Union . . . would be Impaired; that is, assuming she recommendations for our opera does not come into the war? Gen.

. do you

MacArthur—As I havel|ymited war . register publicly

War, is to force China to . . .'that you do not underrate the im stop killing our boys by the thou-|

sands in Korea. Just how that. might impinge with reference toi the Soviet forces is purely specu- MacArthur Hopes We lative, f . Sen. McMahon—Well, General, Can Protect Our Allies

charge’ of the

registering his|

the 175 divisions that the Soviets. gregt—dittrculty in the contrib:

tions that are being made, they're aircraft, nor her not in commensurate strength society stockpile and growing stockpile with what we put in. The forces we have In Korea are only token forces from every-

American

: and ourselves, We have the diminution of gilies, but numbers of them do na power doesn’t not contribute in the same gentiminish the total power of lerous and noble way in which throughout the world, we do. that would be falacious,' Sen, McMahon — They should . : {put up more. ' These Allies do . + It is ob- have many assets which we must right of a vious that we agree they .are our think about in any global struggle. your staff to main enemy—that the Soviet Un-| Gen. MacArthur — Unquestionto the policy ion is. , byt 'ably, Senator, and no one is more or that was! Gen. MacArthur—I didn’t agree fixed in the hope that we can pro- . «. I said that communism tect them. . . . (throughout the world was our (Sen. McMahon read into the {main enemy . . . It is your argu- record a statement Gen. Maecment to confine it to one section! Arthur made as Chief of Staff in lof the world. ' Sen. McMahon—I See. And you national strategy must be made ave the feeling that-if we take by the head of state, rather than over China, that we will have by any department head.) made Gen. MacArthur — As I look back. Senator, upon my rather youthful days then, I am surprised and amazed how wise I was. Sen. McMahon—Thank you. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.)

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Take Over China

Gen. MacArthur—I didn't say I said to the contrary that we had no objec- ) insisted on hav- tives in China proper except to aang troops on . put sufficient force on China 80} onsiderabie equipment (and) you recommended that American officers or technicians be placed ‘with them for the purpose of teaching them the use of that

quite that she would Stop her depredation in North Korea. Sen. McMamon—As I take it,

views that as to when we will be best pre-

(you might have to the attention pared for a war that would in. cGUPment. : . the Of your superior officers. clude the Soviet Union, if one! Do you Sonlemplate fag, in Gen. MacArthur—Naturally . . . had to come” event . . . they made a landing

on the continent of Asia .

Gen. MacArthur—Such studies’ those

that. Senator, are made higher authority than my own Gen. MacArthur—I see no rea-

Sen. McMahon — As a former! they shouldn't. but 1

: {think it would probably be offenrealize that those higher author-'yive to the Chinese troops to have

Tot ities have to take into account Upited States personnel superOp'e. many factors which a theater yvising in that way in combat commander cannot take into ac- t Ei

Sees No Objection =~

technicians would remain

MacArthur-—I do

Gen. MacArthur — Unquestion-

to co-ordinate our total global Mr. Martin, (House Republican ably . , . To Sending Technicians strategy. ea er Joseph W. Martin Jr.) Sen. McMahon — If they (the . I talge it from what vou said Gen. MacArthur—It seems to Joint’ Chiefs)

yesterday that you have a high

ent members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ‘ Gen. MacArthur—1 have. Sen. McMahon- And the present Secretary of Defense. Gen MacArthur—I have. Sen. McMahon—You recognize’ them as patriotic gentiemen of ca-

Gen. MacArthur — Unquestionably. iL Sen. McMahon —Assuming for

strategy . . .

Gen. MacArthur Whether §

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me that the Amerjcan people are sav th entitled

when it involves the lives of their the sons, and, perhaps. the future our country,

Communism Throughout America, World Is Main Enemy

Gen. MacArthur-—Communism, ‘should agree with it or should in my opinion . . . }

not agree with it is not pertinent

Ito the actions of the government is the source and brains of the United States,

Sen. McMahon—General, where ily, he ix subject to removal. “If would

show up here and.

at they have weighed all Gen. MacArthur. you nor no one

cts. of those factors and they believe ese had recommerded that Amer. policy which we are pursuing [an troops actually engage inl any of in the East is the correct one, J part of the ground warfare on In assume that you would agree with the continent. .. . I wondered if

to certain basic fa

1 do not beijeve

the gag rule, if that is what you them inasmuch as you have not any substantial number of techare talking about , . . r

McMahon are not going to. by that state- competent ment, without a mild dissent from me, place in this record that J * * * am in favor of what you choose toy denominate as “the Rag Tule” I am not an expert on military affairs. opinion and every man in the U. 8. Army to pass before the reported to his superiors, and Public opinion. 5 fought out his differences with his superiors. ’ Now, General . , whelmingly the main enemy, in your opinion?

studied those factors which will picians actually went Along with, you influence the opinion of these hiang's trops. what kind of sity; men? ation that puts us in.

. Gen. MacArthur—I see no obThe High Court

Jection to it at all, Senator. It . . is co i y Of Public Opinion mmon practice. . , . We had Gen. MacArthur—Any decisions

'a mission in Greece. . . . My recommendation that ground I was merely of the they'd make, Senator, are like all troops should not be committed to that every officer other human decisions. They have China was (based on) the! high court of sacrifice that would be involved +. . because of our inability with Sen. MeMahon—I wonder if the our bases 10,000 miles’ away to logical extension of your . . . ob- maintain large units there. . , . servation does not mean that we Gen. MacArthur-—I think the should take a national poll or recommendations of the board I réferendum on how we should appointed, Senator. were about’ conduct the strategy of defending 500 officers and men. i Sen. Kefauver--Now, Gen. MacGen. MacArthur — Not at all, Arthur, suppose we had that numSenator. Every military man is ber of men with them and we got subject to assignment. 1f he does involved very deeply and things not perform his duties satisfactor- were going had: do you think ‘that commit us fo sending more! of this an administration doesn't conduct people to the mainland of China?

- General,

. who Is over-

jconspiracy? a its processes -satisfactorily, every, Gen. MacArthur—I don't think, . ie ors : 9 4 - 5

ligation,

Our system .of government is gre doing so now. If you mean |

that I would in contradiction to stand the support being given

There is a great difference be-

were to fight a victorious war publican form of representative

Sen. McMahon — General, your

/tions in China would, still be a, .+. You said yester-

said so frequently, Senator, OUr day that we would go it alone if | purpose, as I see it in the Korean necessary. I am sure, General,

portance of having our allies with armed

Gen. MacArthur—I would say would

Ina In Algor us to have all of the allies] certainly It wouldn't ImPpair that we can get and procure. The would not want to do ing. .

Gen. MacArthur—If you mean ody except the South Koreans - plenty of \ would be tragic. I

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Gen. MacArthur, you said yes-. . .

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iit would commit-an iota, Sene ator—not an iota. La Sen, Kefauver—You do not think that, having given Chiang that support, if things wen wrong . . . that he and. his" friends would feel that we were under a military or moral obligation to supplement his forces + « « to secure a victory? Je Gen, MacArthur —1 think h would welcome any help that we would. give him; but I do not think that he would feel that we were under. any legpl og mandatory ebWe would not he , ., - ”

U. S..Should Give Chian

Reasonable Support Sen. Kefauver—Now, Gen, Mac“Arthur, IT assume that you would recommend that the American

Navy be used to launch Chiang

{on an invasion of the mainland of China . . . if you feel so, how ‘much would be necessary? Gen. MacArthur—The employ« ment of the Chinese forces . . , would be a question basically to be decided by the Chinese commander in chief. Whether he would attempt this grandiose amphibious landing. with all his forces, on continental China, would be extraordinarily doubtful: but, within the limitations of the naval forces that we have, in the western Pacific, I would render him such assistance in his strategic plans as it would be possible for us to do. 3 1 Sen. Kefauver—And, I suppose, that would also mean we ‘would continue to pour in supplies for whatever amphibious force he was able to get on the continent? .. . EG wl ae Gen. MacArthur — Within our capacity, and other demands that we have to meet in other areas. I would say, give him reasonable . support. As a matter of fact,-we . I under

Sen. Kefauver—,

NOW . Is primarily for the

Gen. MacArthur—I might say would accept a Soviet method of defense of Formosa, is it net? iss placing every issue that comes upp: . ) > Sen. McMahon—Would you say before a vote of every member of Aim to Keep Nationalists ithe citizenship, I would of course

Capable of Fighting ‘Gen. MacArthur—The support being given him now is to render the troops that he has capable of fighting. The present .djrectives forbid the utilization ‘of the Chinese Nationalist forces (outside of Formosa and, perhaps, some ofgthe outlying islands; | . , Sen. Kefauver—What kind of a {situation would be in Korea if the (other) United Nations . . . should » not carry on with us in Korea? “| Gen. MacArthur—As far as the forces are concerned, the total contribution ef all the other {nations, outside of the United {States and South Korean, iss very small fraction. CHAE The subtraction of those forces have no material “effect {upon the tactical situation. ~ - Sen. Kefauver — We :

that” would™ even cause ' t scarey forces to pull out, I take

They Should Send Much Larger Forces

Gen. MacArthur—I At beliens at (everything possible should use done to cement the international . (feature of the United Nations’ efforts there . . . it should be em‘Phasized extraordinarily t-at they should send much larger forces, jand that those nations which have not contributed anything, should contribute . . .

| Almost the entire burden of

blood and effort and monsy is ‘confined to two countries, the ‘native country of the Koreans, land ourselves, i { Sen. Kefauver—So the effect of ‘the operations that . . . may be taken in the Far East upén:the attitude of these associated with us would he one of the matters ‘that should be considered .5% =

| . = =» a Testimony late yesterday “ in(cluded the following: 3a

Chairman Richard RB, (D. Ga.)—Now Gen. the Senators present appreciate any remarks vour® care to offer as a basis for ing these hearings. pr Gen. MacArthur—Thank * have no prepared stat appear today not as a

witness at all, but in 10 the request of the com : I am entirely in the ire aad jcommittee. § .

Sen. Russell — I gh to ask you if, as a result of

bY with Chiang’s troops? ‘experiences in Korea during

struggle, you feel that. we- “

ve accomplished the complete “ine tegration as a fighting ma of

the various services. ea Perfect Integration Of Forces Achieved

Gen, MacArthur — 1 can’ gnly speak for what has urred

Sen. Kefauver — But you said, within what was my theater of cof

responsibility, Senator. You would know more about the integrsifon here or in continental ‘Amefea probably than I-would. but iri the Far East: the integration of the three fighting services has Been as complete as I could pow imagine. bs The integration there i ‘béen much more than the a] of the three services. It has been the integration of the forces of a number of nations, all of which had various components there,’ I would rate it as 100 per and the only reason I do not. fate it higher is because I believe: mathematicians say 100 per ent is all there is. i Sen. Russell--General, we: received conflicting reports xs: te the battle eMciency of the Korean forces .. Soi Gen! MacArthur—In cours and in determination, and in: res-

olution, they are very fine tepops. of fong

They lack the -hackground tradition. They lack an officer corps, which takes years to build up. They lack in ‘the efficacy of long periods of training . . . but

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