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If he joined the fight
STALIN WOULD STICK TO WAR
AT SEA AND IN THE AIR By Richard Hughes
"This is our supreme bid for
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POWER BY VIOLENCE
Good Morning
Just a gambol,
Western Military leaders in Agency report says Joo Louis the Far East believe that the in retirement "bas lost heavily vital fighting in any third world at golf and other enterprises of war will be over Alaska into the chance." United States, and aerosa Ger-
and striding up and down the corrider of his historic plane, line, but ari honest, vigorous! Bataan, as it lurched through Western challenge,
"Stalin won't go to war over many into Europe and the Middle "boots and Korea," Bald one high-ranking) East, with atomic bombs sterilis-
Occupation diplomat to me, "Heng English ports. will choose his ground batter. He will get his blow In ftrat nnd it won't be a blow wasted on Jupan or Korea,
his visit to the tine.
"If we fall in Korea, we full Piroughout· Asia,
The impossible alternative
'Stalin has probed weak spot
A
በከ
no - doubt weil-moaning secretary senda US announcement beginning, "The
Girls' Cilego Alumn Association hel its annual roclai cartering today."
If you want any more support.
just let me know. up
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conflict
The alternative, after all, is "It wit be an attempted cru- That perhaps, best sums
They do not believe that Stalin impossible to consider. If South shing, surprise multipla blow de- top level Occupation opinion in Korea fell to the Reds a few livered simultaneously
is now prepared deliberately to nt the
provoke this world Japan on the crisis that exploded days after John Dulles had the United
holocaust States' counter-attack
"Korca
blessing in when the le, pale yellow men torically told Scoul (and Asta) strategic bombers while they are over a border skirmish Inflamed
disguise." North of the 38th parallel burat that "captive peoples of the on the ground in England and his wretched Korean puppets. ncross their unnatural frontier to worid" could never defeat "free Europe."
He has probed a possible weak Dese guys now in the fighting kill and "llberate" their little, peoples,"
spot in the democratic world's zone are raid
to have another all confidence In the pale yellow Korean brothers United States and the United
He has found word for it. South of the paralicl
Nations would be lost throughout the Orient.
Both Korean Governments
• The average South Korent have assured the Secretary- boasts as fow conspicuous at- General of the United Nations tributes of that strange Western that they agree to observe the device "democracy us does the average Vietnamese, the average Geneva Convention regard- Malayan, the average Chinese, ing the treatment of prisoners the average Filipine, or let's of war. It is to be hoped they whisper it-the average Japanese, will keep their word, and
those strange have the power to enforce it. quirks which Joseph Stalin keeps
on a be-{ War is an unpleasant business, implacably imposing
wildered world, the little, pale but the human conscience yellow men South of the 38th does at least expect elemen-parallel, in their ancient "hermit kingdom." ⚫ure now in a front tary mercy for the helpess.
line which can resist the brutish, trampling onrush of Red Asia or hasten the fall of all Asia to
But by one of
Communism.
An echo of Churchill
But if the Soviet did strike at global defences. whose arguments Influenced De-
Japan, military leaders here, that it is not weak. He is expect-
ed to shrug. withdraw,
subinorine blockade
and A new type of falsie is called
arid mountains
mountains out of molehills.
·
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"Abfuck—notboll... dress—is finished with iler upin tlor of delicate white lace."
fence Secretary Johnson during probe elsewhere. Repercussions in Indo-China, his recent visit, belleve that If the West stands firm and "Ited Tape." because it makes Malaya, the Philippines, Burma operations would be confined to resolute elsewhere, as in the rice
and air paddy-flelds and India would be terrific.
Force against forcer might-raids. Invasion, they-do-not-four of Korea, defeat of this brutal against might. These are doc-
pocket Invasion may well mark trines which the East stuer- The United States Air Force, the first real and enduring world stands best, despite carneal ranging from Japanese air buses victory of democracy over Com labours of our missionaries, visit- and patrolling Alaskan waters, munism. ing politicians, und-alas-too could" intercept Soviet bomber MacArthur is now planning a confident democratisers.
attacks almed across the roof of bold, sweeping and confident Suppose the Russians come in? the world at United States cities, strategy In Tokyo. No one in top Occupation circles and blast Soviet dumps and air- "This is our supreme bid for in Japan believes that they will. I felds in Siberia.
peace."
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How strong is the Red Army?
All British and American tanks
Your move, Miss Moran,
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Everybody has agreed to stop atrocities in Koren.
This, I suppose, finally rules out the use of atom bombs?
eWomen owe it to themselves to dress well,"
Usually they prefer to owe it to their dressmaker,
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gun,
tro now
Overheard in the hardware (Editor's Note: This is the first switched from one side of her this list; but Zhukov, who is not department: of three articles on Russia's inill-huge frontiers to the other side of popular with the Kremlin, is "Oh, well, if there's a lot of
the globe.
ilving quietly in retirement near fed tape about buying a tory might).
Tashkent.
I'd better just divorce him." Army Group I under Marshal Meretzkov based on Leningrad has the task of attacking or de- are outgunned by Russian heavy To make things more difficult, fending in the Scandinavian tanks, according to Major S. J. North Korean troops
Watson writing in the Army wearing American green uniforms. theatre of war.
Quarterly. The huge Joseph This is force of a different Army Group II under Marshal Stalin with is 4.9in. gun
and colour. and Timoshenko (Koenigsberg) is three machine guns is a tough He re-echoes the words at- On top of that. Russia has a responsible for Western Europe. nut to crack. It will need some tributed to Churchill after Bri- single supply and administrative
in history how the explaining tain had accepted the Soviet as organisation for all three services,
Grechko
at nation that for years could not In 1041: an ally
"Ir Satan known as the Rear of the Armed Odessa with Army Group III build a good tractor or car still had declared against Hitler, 1 Services. There has been nothing) commands the Balkans arca. would have had a respectful word so close kalt on the Allfed side
managed to pull out tanks that would relish a duel with a Ger- inan Tiger or Panther.
Allics.
General MacArthur's warn- ing to the North Koreans against the mistreatment of war prisoners came none too soon. In his announcement on July 4, he said that any
In this supreme struggle, Mac- personnel of the North
Arthur, who has at last had his Korean armed forces made unswerving views accepted by
The Russian Army is more prisoners by the forces under both the United States Defence closely linked with its air his control would be treated and State Departments, has con- force and the navy than the
sistently made it elear that hei in accordance with the will accept as allies anyone who armed forces of the Western humanitarian principles ap-resists Communism anywhere. plied by civilised nations in- volved in an armed conflict, and he would expect similar treatment for American and other personnel operating under his command in the Korean conflict. Those who failed to do so would be held responsible. Very few of the Japanese war criminals who were held to account for their crimes ever expected the long arm of the law would reach them. But it did, and due warning ought to be taken from this example.
for hell in the Commons."
since General Eisenhower pre- sided over the invasion forces in Britain.
enlightened, democratic allies the So MacArthur has hailed as forces of antique, arrogant Pre- The numbers of the Russian sent Syngman hee of South Army are dismaying on paper Korea, who emotionally kissed They are estimated at anything MacArthur. when he visited between 200 and 270 divisions; Japan last year but who has but the Russian division is smaller displayed little of Western jus- than ours and does not exceed tlee and democratie liberty in 10.000 men. his horrible, crowded prison cells.
tens one.
2,000,000 men
J
想
Colonel-General
No. 1 in Korea
Marshal Bogramlan In Tills
The Russian Army' is weak in communica- looks down at Asla Minor, and engineers, signals, Marshal Tolbukhin at Tashkent is tions and transport. Its backbone watching Afghanistan, Pakistan is its infantry, the tough, brave and India with Army Group V. and usually quite illiterate Ivans)
who keep o pocketful of sun- The commander nearest to the flower seeds as emergency rations present trouble area in Korea is and will cheerfully sleep in a Marshal Malinovsky, Commander-į hole in the ground in winter pull-) In-Chief of Army Group VI at Ing in the baggage horse to keep Chifa.
the party warm, They have no NAAFI, no ENSA and no "en- titlement" to leave.
In MacArthur's conviction to- Only a few days later, how-
His army group contains the tay as in Churchill's concerning. ever, the shocking news came
All the same we must take For Eastern army that is watch- the late
Adolf Hitler in 1941 that there are 2,000,000 mobile ing Japan and Alaska from its through of the execution of there is only one common enemy fighting men in Russia today with Amur river HQ, but the Mar- a party of American prisoners, who threatens all and who must base and supply organisations shal's defence segment runs the whose bodies were found by be resisted whenever be threa-amounting to almost
many whole way from South East Asia, the roadside, with
J971. their
An army of four inition through the 38th Parallel, to the So MacArthur demands that
men is not extraordinary when Arctic Circle. If you are terrified hands tied behind their backs, the West call the Communist we consider that the annual by the extent of this command, in territory re-taken from the bluff throughout the Far East.
He is prepared to ally himself intake of conscripts in Russin
no doubt the Marshal is equally invaders after, a counter with, or support,
exceeds 1,250,000. anyone who attack. The men had been defies Communism anywhere. But we need not expect Stalin He is now carrying out the to throw this whole mass in one made prisoners after a clash
logical bombing of North Korea direction at once, with tank forces, and they to weaken the invasion and o-Russian Army is divided into six because the were afterwards shot in coldcupation of South Korea. blood. The Koreans
tess of the invisible, artificial ser groups and a strategle re- normally a mild, docile peo-lready violated.
frontier
casily which North Korea has serve,
are
regard-
ple, but those familiar withHe-will-use-United States in- the dreadful massacres and fantry as well as the United other incidents which attend States Navy and Air Force if the of transport unhappy problems ed the upheaval in Korea a
and supply to Korea can be sat few months after the end of Isfactorily solved. the first world war will realise. For MacArthur, for the United) how barbarously cruel they States and for the United Nations,
is Korcat polley no longer a can be when they get worked wavering, Munich, appeasement
The whole Communist
up.
which cannot be
So.
reserve
in
Natural marksmen
Russian infantry' are trained to proficiency in small arms.
Somet tribes of natural marksmen dis-| pense with the sights and score on running targets by an instine-
not
tive laying of
of aim. • They are Marshal Konley is in command taught that the rifle is a killing of the strategic
the weapon and
4 personal Volga river area.
weapon of defence. name of Marshal of the Soviet captured enemy
You had been expecting the They are trained in the use of weapons, and Union Zhukov, the "Monty of have an aptitude for deld craft the Russian front, to appear in and night attack.
It was when winter bogged, down modern weapons and-mode the front less mobile that the inflexible qualities of the Russian soldier began to tell against the Germans in 1941.
The first man in
With little time for sighting he
the
No hysteria
all
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Naughty little Willie Fraser Found his dad's electrle razor. Rugs and mais that once were
hairy
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Now are bald; so's the canary.
You bet.
Housewife says she bought an egn with two yolks.
We'll unke all the doubles hens care to lay.
"What's the best month to got married?"
"Octombruary."
"But there's no such month," "Exactly."
POACHING PROHIBITED
BY BROCA
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Best I've tasted, my boy”
No doubt the weaknesses of the Lieutenant Robert Earl, Yet no one cared too much last studied; they are inflexibility, a Russian Army are being carefully Wayne, United States Air week whether the Giants beat comparatively
Tow Dodgers in Force, manoeuvred his League race. the
ratio Baseball
of All eyes were 911 standard of repairs and a high techniclans and therefore a low "Shooting Star" jet fighter be- the players like Lieutenant hind a formation of much Wayne, and the pros and cons of rate of wastage of vehicles
no comfort really in sizing up technique in precept and prac-listic aspects of the Com- slower North Korean Yaks, ed as if he were the manuscr
General MacArthur were discuss this vast army, but worth remem- tice is, morcover, one of de- munist faith if they were not high above Kimpo Airfleld, the coach of the local co
bering. ceit and brutality. The most so often accompanied by, the Scoul. dreadful things have been most brutal methods of done in Malaya, where there violence, and the most cynical fired two bursts, and became the is no war in the usual sense forms of chicanery and deceit. first, American to shopt down Screaming headlines aro of the term; only a campaign Nobody ever seriously Communist aircraft in the Far over the place. Yet New Yorkers, of murder and assassination, doubted the fact that the East. So the doorbells were ring the most hysterical people in the United States' (with the possible often at the expense of the South Koreans were the sub-ing within hours at his family's
suburban home in Garden City, exception of the strange colony Chinese community and of fects of an unprovoked attack Long Island.
of Hollywood), are reacting to Lieutenant Wayne seemned such hysteria in a helpless women and children. It makes no great difference
maxt un- war hero, but there hysterical way. Communism as an economic to say. that the Southern prototype
were two big differences from
But the keynote of public theory is one thing. Terror-leaders would have taken the the conventional picture.
opinion in the most glaring sky- ism and murder as its de-offensive if they had the In keeping with the fact that scraper target in the world, 18 sobriety votees practice these evils are ability and opportunity to do the war. If not cold, was only amazingly enough, quite another matter. A so. Indeed one explanation slightly warm, Mrs. Wayne, their and calm.
three-year-old daughter Barbara There was comment on the civilised leader of Asia like of the reason why they were and their 1-month-old daughter banning of all visits to US, wor-
were living
Increased Pandit, Nehru could hardly only lightly armed, in relation Penelope
happy ships, on the greatly suburban lives not in find words adequate to ex-
Garden number of jets practising above to the powerful offensive
City but by her husband's air the ever-crowded clty beaches. press his abhorrence of this armament of the Northern ag base in Japan. Every evening People talked about the radar net dominant feature of the Com- gressors, is that they would she went on cooking the family they were "building" up in munist campaign in Malaya, thereby be dissuaded against supper. which, he said, reduced men to the level of beasts. No good, he insisted, could come out of such evil-only more
ovil.
breaking the peace. They Mother's hope
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Canada.
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The nation snatched up all do- tails about Lieutenant Wayne, about the teletype conversations between President Truman and
were in fact armed for,de- fence and for police purposes
The pilot's mother answered General MacArthur, the debate against guerillas and other the Long Island doorbell. Sho, over the offectiveness of U.S. subversive elements in their too, was calm. She told the re- Intelligence in Kores, over whe- own territory. They were porters wip called at Garden ther the good old First Cavalry certainly not armed for the City she hoped everything would Division should bo
sent to the
One may say what he likes about the economic fruits of Communist policy when car- ried out on an organised basla been wise or unwise, but it is excursion out there this autumn, of interest in the United Nations, as State polley. Systems of certainly the truth. The and presumably did not want her spurred by the speed and effec economies, like forms of gov- crime of aggression against shooting down
son to be spending too much time tiveness with which the world:
Communist air- body acted in support of the U.S. ernment, are judged by their them is aggravated by the fact craft.
decision. More Americana pack- results. But while there is a that it was preceded, and for It isn't pence. It isn't war. It cú Lake Success at 11 p.m. the certain courage and gallantry a short time accompanied by a who are far more conditioned to watched the big local Derby Isn't the Cold War. Americans, night of the resolution than had about the soldier who takes world-wide and specious war scares than we are, particu- baseball geing in St. Louis, that his chance with the rest of world peace campaign, typical larly since the Cold War began, same afternoon. And radioʻsta- them on the battleground, of Communist tactics. But are not quite sure what this one tions broadcasting word-by-word relays from Lake Buccess report- the methods of the assassin execution of political pri- No one is saying a word about ed millions were listening in. who strikes down his victimsoners by. South Koreans, mobilisation. No one, apart from And apart from the Communist and then runs for it belong such as was reported over the a few trigger-happy ox-sergeants, fringe, everyone appeared to to the lowest order of week-end is even worse than and 25 teen-age girls at Atlantle think the UB. were doing the struggle. The world would the execution of soldiers in omices in accepted pro-outbreak and
CILY, bosisgod the "recruling| right thing in saying “thus far no farther at the 38th be more tolerant of the idea- the heat of battle.
| Parallel, even sẽ tho risk of aƏYATI
offensive. That may have be all right in the Far East Korean mainland or not.
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