Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1952 — Page 7

FRIDAY. JAN om ome, A U.S. Army General Speaks— Ll

‘That Damned Pentaac ». Continued From Page One dent then, ean save Asia from Maine. Republican, and Harry MacArthur did and they got him? communism. No other. Western Truman, a Missouri Democrat, He said Gen, MacArthur tolq POWer has the prestige, the respect clicked from the moment the genhim frequently that President °F the means to do it. But, he eral was assigned as military aide Truman's decision on Korea was Said, the Joint Chiefs of Staff can to the old Truman committee. “the greatest act of statesman- think only in terms of Europe— Gens. Lowe and MacArthur had ship in world history.” President ‘They want to fight their wars|been friends long before Mr. TruTruman’s ‘regard for Gen. Mac. from chateaus" —and resent any man came to Washington. Arthur was “so high it couldn't diversion of thought or. effort to/. Gen. Lowe tried to play fair have been any higher.” (Asia. Unable to prevent the Pres-| with both. A copy of every mesWhen he’ dismissed the General. ident s Korean intervention, they sage he sent to the President was the President cited the VFW mes- have done everything possible to delivered to Gen. MacArthur. sage as one in a series of incidents SW it down. Both men knew and approved proving Gen. MacArthur was out ‘We'll Be. Guilty’. Hiss arrangement. 1d h of step. with th inistration’s! « y | any man cou ave preND in 2 adinistration I hold that the issue has been vented what happened, Gen. Lowe

joined,” Gen, Lowe said. “It is pelieves, he was that 3 o : » . . : s, he $ at man. - And In that message,” Gen. MacAr- communism against the rest of he thinks. he failed. He couldn't

thur discussed the strategic im- the world. I S i i “ portance of Formosas-a National-|the Far Mi nag heel joiney 18 cope with » thal dupeed Penta ist stronghold President Truman it must Have its first s [gon-crowd: 4 g St Have its first settlement.” There are other reasons. He was using the- Tth Fleet to de- If we ivocs , rasti : : : . equivocate or procrastinate has waited patiently for some acfend—and the necessity for keep-|—if we appeas : : : > appease these beasts— tion on his: report. Nothing has ing it in non-Communist hands.'then the generati ; i I spoke cl the generations that follow happened. He feels time is runn it, he spoke eloquently of the us will indict us for physical, ning out. President. mental, moral and spiritual cow- : : *A Lamp of Hope’ \ardice and we'll’ be guilty as hell.” | Korea Left Its Mark “The decision of President Fru- Frank Lowe today is at once I hadn't seen Frank Lowe since man on June 27 lighted into flame a tragic and magnificent figure. April when I walked into his a lamp of hope throughout Asia We sat befGte his blazing fire- home here. Korea has left its that was burning dully toward Place or drove about the Maine mark 6n-him: He hardly seemed extinction,” Gen. MacArthur Woods, discussing what we had the same sturdy soldier who had cabled. “It marked for the Far| done and seen in Korea. The campaigned from Pusan to the Fast the focal and turning point chain of. friendship between us Yalu River, who landed at Inin this areas’ struggle for free- had been forged in battle. As we chon, who never seemed to sleep dom. It swept aside in one great talked, the temperature fell be-jor rest. He is far from a well monumental stroke all the hypoc- low zero and a snowstorm raged man today. At 67, Frank Lowe risy and sophistry which has con- Outside. |says “I don’t covet longevity.” fused and deluded so many peopie! Frank Lowe returned from Ko-| While in uniform, Frank Lowe distant from the actual scene,” [ea last June. Why—after seven was reluctant to talk. Now—reWhen President Truman ordered months—has he finally decided totired for age—he can say what the message suppressed, Gen. talk? ; he thinks. Lowe said he and Gen. MacArthur| Principally because this de-| «Nothing I say to you is off the were bewildered. Gen, MacArthur voted patriot believes his mission record,” he said. “I'm a realist sincerely believed, Gen. Lowe said, |t0 Korea was a “tragic failure.”|and I'm too damned old to : that his message would bolster It Was his job, he felt, to prevent change.” : the Truman Far Eastern policy. 2 misunderstanding. It was his| : a rriny Ee Gen. Lowe said he had “never|Job to make doubly sure that the), Te ar : seen a man more hurt and puz-|{tWO men he loved most in this teat ; . ; ie cal implications in what he is zled” than Gen. MacArthur. As a|World—Harry Truman and Doug-|4,; sn’ ’ : . oP doing. He doesn’t intend to play good soldier, he withdrew his mes-|1as. MacArthur — always under-| He is sulphuric

. : partisan politics. sage. But it already had been re- Stood each other, always stood in nig reaction to Republican deleased to the newspapers.

|shoulder to shoulder against the mands that he be called. before a Gen. Lowe quite obviously common foe, always worked to- congressional committee.

shares Gen. MacArthur's views! 8ether. “I can see no good to be acthat the first—and perhaps cli-| Long a Friend of Doug complished by my being called at mactic—battles against Commu-| President Truman sent him to, this late date,” he said. nism will be fought in the Far Gen. MacArthur, Gen. Lowe felt,, “We should forget yesterday

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in Ais basic’ loyalties. His devo- genius of Douglas MacArthur and oratory’ of war, as in Spain, to tion to President Truman is asthe guts of a handful of Ameri-|tegt tactics, techniques and weapSouth Koreans, the dened that the President has, in Communists failed. If anything is - his opinion, been misled and mis- needed to prove the Russians! ' TWO— To. see whethér informed. But he understands started this war, that. document United Nations was another how: those things happen. did. It was carefully calculate.i/ league of Nations, ‘and would When Gen. Lowe went to Korea, 1008 in advance, just as.is the!’ Just pass.notes” as the league “Take up whole Russian program.” did in regard to Manchuria, Ethiwhere vou left off.” He had the| Gen. Lowe approved President OPia and the Panay incident. greatest leeway. He could go Truman's intervention in Korea. | THREE-—To see whether the where he chose. As he sees it, Russia had three United Nations—and the United What does he think of Gen. objectives: States In particular would Aght

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his, orders were simple;

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man, Gen. MacArthur

~“They. he meant crossing the Yalu, either

got their answers,” said, it was a great shock to in the air or on the ground, he _ the Russians to ‘learn that so would have .done it, If military many free countries could and strategy ruled out -crossing the would send fighting units to a Yalu, he wouldn't have done it United Nations army under for political reasons. Quite ob American command with com- viously, he-feels many of our de« plete good will. ‘The free world cisions have been political. As a

has gained a great deal.” résult, he says we face a “dis~

However, he feels. we should graceful stalemate” and thoushave carried the fight to the en- ands of lives are being sacrificed emy that needlessly. °

more aggressively. If

and Saturday!

MacArthur now? | ONE =T0 sel up anothéy Jab. - n Frank Lowe says <he hasn'l ’ | ° ® changed the opinion he expressed last March. Then, he said Cab Driver } ? “I think Gen. MacArthur ° . - he | the greatest general — strategi- Si T + 3 cally and tactically — this world: ain in 4 has ever known. It takes 50 » | years to write history. You and I | will not live to read the final Over Girl verdict, but I'll bet that history { 50 years from now will so record.| The president of a local taxicab Our people have never gotten so company shot one of his drivers! much for so little. In my opinion, to death last night, police said,| his Korean campaign was a mas-/in a dispute over who would take] terpiece of strategy and tactics.” home the 18-year-old telephone What about the decision to girl. cross the 38th Parallel? Dead was Joseph Duke, 23. of “What were his orders from 9430 Ralston Ave. : { the United Nations?” Frank Lowe Ch A-wi a ej countered. “As I understand them, arge with murder was Ken-| those orders were to proceed Betty Grant. 42, of 613 Eugene] forthwith to defeat the North St. president of the Safety Cab) Korean Communist army and to| The telebhone is A lh re-establish the Republic of Ko-|\ fie _Opergior Is Miss) rea. How. in the hell could he Ave * §, 2000 Cornell have done that in any other wav |® A =i ; { than to pursue a defeated ani! Cite Suspect’s Account disintegrated enemy throughout; Detectives said Grant told tnem| the length of Korea—as far north he thought he saw Mr, Duke draw| as the Yalu and Tumen Rivers?” a small caliber. pistol from his| pocket in the .company’s office,! 1672 Northwestern Ave., shortly| Owe before midnight. {

~ ‘Russian Engineered’ The Korean War, Gen. I

says, was “Russian engineered Grant then drew a 38-caliber| and precipitated.” pistol from his own pocket and| “You were there at Uijongbu fired two shots at Mr. Duke as] when we captured that Russian the driver stood in the" doorway, | brder of battle,” he said. “Those detectives quoted Grant as say-| were excellent plans (dated in|ing. { March and written in both Rus-| The driver fled out the door. | sian and Korean, -I recall). If an!Grant followed and fired the re-| American general with thos» maining three shots from his] (plans and that superiority hadn’tigun, according to his accouht. |

_—— East. He so reported to Mr. Tru- not only because he was the Presi-'except for the lessons taught. smashed the length of Korea and| Mr. Duke fell dead on the man when he was sent to. Asia on |dent’s close friend, but because Live today; plan for tomorrow.” taken Pusan.within 48 hours he sidewalk in front of 1706 North-| a secret mission in 1945. Only the he was Gen. MacArthur's friend, | He is equally emphatic on an-|would have been relioves of coni- western Ave. Police said he had! : United States, he told the Presi- too. Gen. Lowe, a rockribbed other point: There are no changes mand. As it was, thanks to the/no weapon. | in == = = —_— | a ee ——— Ee ———————————— I —————OV ym NA ——— I —RR | { ~~ | |

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