THE CHINA MAIL; WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10,. 1950.
TRUMAN-MACARTHUR Malik puts
DIFFERENCES OVER POLICY ON FORMOSA
Washington, August 28. Far-reaching differences botwoon Prosidant Truman and Genoral MacAr thur on United States Formosan policy were brought into the open today.
In the sternest rebuke which has ever been delivered by a United States President in the frequently controversial career of the 70-year-old veteran General and war hero, the White House publicly announced that the President had himself. directed General MacArthur. to with- draw the message.
General MacArthur sont this message last week to the politically power- ful ex-Serviceman's organisation, stating that the United States should prevent the Chinese Nationalist stronghold of Formosa being taken over by the Chinese Communist Government.
"its military potential would The Truman Administration Allied forces and United No- the
Again be fully exploited as the Commander In
means to breach and neutralise was, however, unable to pre- tions
defence Western Pacific our
of General vent the publleation in the Korean war.
Editors publishing
mount a war Press of General MacArthur's
system and also message have
conquest against the free na- message despite 48 hours of MacArthur's
tions of the Pacific basin.”
his communications bemade I clear that, they were do- hurried
he was volcing He said tween Washington and Tokyo, so either with the net ap- proval, or, at any rate, without
views on Formosa in view of being MacArthur where General
the positive disapproval of Gen-
the relation- holds the triple past of United eral MacArthur's public relations misconceptions currently
with voiced concerning consultation ufler States Commander, Suprem staff
trans-Pacific telephone ship of Formosa to our strategie Commander of World War Ifthem by
United States and potential in the Pacific, between the Tokyo.
TRUMAN AROUSES STORM
As a result, the American pco- ple read in their afternoon pa- pers today two conflicting views on United States Formosun paliey hy the President and by General MneArthur.
Republicans in Congress today put into the Congressional record the text of General MacArthur's statement.
Concentration of bases
our
shifted war "The last strategic Frontier to embrace the entire Puciác
Kenneth Wherry, said President rupt leadership." he said,
he At Dayton,
on, Ohio, Mr. James M. per cent the
resented by every Anerican. Re-Cox, publisher presentative Joseph Martin, Jr. Republican House
sintement into the Congressional record and
Forrest Donnell Senator
General MacArthur's
of four
all my
be
Ocean, which has
air
Formosa on the agenda
Lake Success, August 28. Jacob Malik, Russian delo. aste to the United Nations and Prouident of the Security Council for August, tonight summoned the Becurity Courall to meet on Tuesday and put the explosive quea- on Hm tion of Formosa agenda.
This was disclosed after a Macret meeting of the 11-na- tion Council, in which Mr. Malik tried to read out of the official record all actions which the group had taken during the 29-week Bovict boycott which ended August 1.
Mr.
action Mallis's placing the Issue of Formosa Council'a officially on the
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order of business was a cor. tain Indication, in the minds of most observars, that Run- ele would demand that the
United
order the Nationa
withdraw Btates to United Its Beventh Fleet from For- mosan waters.-United Press.
NEW RED LINE IN BRITAIN
with (Re-newspapers not to use the Mac- could direct damaging air attacks two which they ha
in
publican) put it bala the Senate Artur message. The
constitu- which are currently I
⚫ record.
tion of the United States definite- ly pluces control of the military. Mr. Martin said of the Prest-under civil authority. dent's action: It is to be taken are not supposed
not
to play by the American people as an-part of stateamen. This is other flagrant example of incre-Rome, or the days of Caesar."
Adminis- dible bungling by the tration over the past five years The MacArthur message bungling which delivered churia and most of Chua to the Communists and which culmina- ted in the Korean confict....
Man-
Veterans
PRESIDENT'S OUTLINE OF U.S. POLICY
Washington, August 28. President Truman has written to Mr. Warren Aus- tin, chief United States delegate to the United Nations, outlining American policy on For mosa, according to the White House today. The text is as follows: "As I told you on the tele- phone this morning I want to congratulate you on your able presentation of the views of the United States Government in the Security Council of the United Nations from the first onset of the aggression against the the Republic of Korea, "Throughout the entire proval of a resolution on the in- course of the proceedings you tegrity of Chinn, Only the Union have represented this Govern of the Soviet Socialini Republics and a satellites did not approve. ment with great effectiveness with and in full accordance
U.N. consideration my directions.
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United The "(0)
Stator would welcome United Nations
CARO consideration of the
approve Formosa. We would
of
fut United Nations investiga. We tion here, or on the spot.
United believe that
Nations consideration would contribute
than of
to a peaceful, rather
forceable
problem.
solution
1
that
The letter which you address- ed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on August 25 on the subject of Formosa admirably sums up the fundamental post- tlon of this Government as it had 27 been stated by me on June and in my message to Congreas clearly on July 19. You have set forth in that letter the heart and essence of the problem. You down my have faithfully Set
"(7) We do not believe that the views as they were then and no
Security Council need be, or will they are now.
That there be no misunder-be, diverted from its considera- There was standing concerning the position tion of the aggression against the States with respect to Formosa, Ita breach of the peace in Korea, of the Government of the United Republic of Korea,
condemned, and the combined may be useful to repeat here the The aggressor attacked, has been seven fundamental points which
forces of the United Nations are you so clearly stated Ja
now in battle to repel the aggres- letter to Mr. Lie.
sion.
Your
"(1) The United States has not encroached en the territory of China, ner has the United States taken aggressive action against China.
Impartial action
WAS an
of
the
his
"In the forthcoming `discussion Security of the problem in the Council you will continue to have my complete support."---Reuter.
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London, August 28. become a vast mout to protect us
Party Britain's Cominunist as long as we hold it," he assert-
General MacArthur said that Executive announced today field fewer can- the next General Formusa now had a concentration that it will of air and naval bases which was didates at Washington, August 28.
any Election because of "the sup- than greater Congressional
of the reme need to develop a united Republican
The Republican Hause lender, "potentially
concentration
the action to preserve peace, and leaders today denounced the Representative Joseph Martin, of similar
Asiatic mainland between
"Formosa is now at peace and and the Straits Yellow Sen
of to win the working-class vic- attempted suppression of Gen-Massachusetts, told the House it
will remain so unless someone' MacArthur's was unfortunate that President
tury over the Tories." Malacca." Douglas
resorts to force. If the Security cral
de- Further bases could be
It will statement on Formosa as "out-Truman had tried to suppress the
Council wishes to study the ques- relatively short The Party said that in it veloped
tion of Formosa we shielt support rageous" and a piece of "n-statement after the General had
sent to the
the Press.
and "any enemy force utilis- tell the workers to vote Labour credible bungling."
and assist that study. Mean- The President's
Was Ume netion
banking those installations currently in all constituencies where there
(2) The action of the United while, the President of the Secu available could increase by 100 is not a Communist candidate. The Senate Republiem leader, "another exhibition of a
effort which
States in regard to Formosa was rity Council (Mr, Jacob Malik of the At the February General Elec-
should discharge taken at a time when that island Russia) against directed
put
get on tlon, British Communists
was the scene of conflict with the duties of his office and Truman's "gag" order would
news could
of
* A more serious con-with the item on the agends, papers in the State, issued the Okinawa as compared to opera- forward the record, number
They failed to mainland. tions based on the mainland."
flict was threatened by the public which is the complaint of aggres- lender, put following statement;
Republic of win a single seat and lost the
declaration of the Chinese Cem-alon against the The enemy "at the same time 100 candidates. Instrueled "I have
formerly
munist authorities, Such a con- Korea, and, specifically, the re- against
held in Parliament, fighter-type aircraft
niet would have threatened the cognition of the right Installations
the
will-security of the United Nations Korean Ambassador to take The Party expressed its
the the range of fighters ingness to associate with all who forces operating in Korea under seat and the vote on the United Security States resolution for the locall- for the the mandate of Generals based
on the mainland. Our air are prepared to work
Council to repel the aggression sation of the Korean conillet. be-following alms:
They theremacy at
once would
on the Republic of Korea,
con- "These seven points accurately come doubtful."
"End the menace of third threate ed to extend the
record the position of the United of enemy use Thus, he said,
world war, End Britain being fiet through the Pacific aren
with counter-tied to the war alliance "may either
action of (3)
of the United States. The Formosa balance
the America. overshadow or
Let the United Na States was an impartial, neutral- General Douglas MacArthur strategic importance of the Cen- tions function for peace in Korca ising action addressed both to the
of Foreign tral and Southern flank in the and the admission of the Chinese
forces on Formosa and to those told A
It No re- an
on the mainland, Ware annual camp at Chicago United Stules' frontline position. People's Government.
armament or two years military action designed to keep the peace that by holding a Pacific island
service but a renewed effort to and was, therefore, in full necor have defence (ino,
"we may
Lamp of hope
a peaceful settlement with the spirit of the Charter, of "I would call the attention of
As Presl- dan "Formosa in the hands of such achieve peace-but lose it, and war Is
the United Nations. the House to one of the probable
inevitable,"
an hostile power could be com- between the powers, which reasons for suppression of the
designs on In a cabled message to the ex-pared to an unsinkable aircraft lead to disarmament throughout dent Truman has solemnly de-
the United Nations. Ban theclared, we have no report, You all recall that last
carrier and
submarine tender,
Not a penny oft Formosa, and our action was not January 12 Secretary of State Servicemen, General MacArthur
great milltary importance ideally jocated
to accomplish atom bomb.
the Social Service and not
inspired by any desire to acquiro Acheson, in a speech to the No-gave
Wa- to Formosa, the last military offensive strategy and, at the tional Press Club here in
check-mate defence Penny more on taxation for the a special position for the United de-stronghold of Chinese Nationallat
same time,
people. End the wage freeze--
States. shington, declared that our
counter-offensive operations and cut or
profits and taxes."- fensive perimeter runs along the forces.
friendly forces based The
Commander-in-Chief of by
Reuter, Aleutians to Japan and then goes
virtually the United Nations forces in Okinawa and the Philippines." to the Rkukyus, thus
In addition, the General said, KoKorea described the chain of is-,
The Far East Prisoners of War the one in and take Korea and Formosa, Jards extending from the Aleu-
enemy could, utile For
of the island is that it is territory Social Club, claiming to speak for moca as a base for short-range both of which were beyond Mrtinns to the Marionas as a no-
taken from. Japan by the, victory more than 30,000 ex-POWs in _submarines__to "threaten.com. "Acheson's perimeter.
tural-defence-line in the Pacific,
the traffic from plately sca He said that the Paclic
of the Allied forces in-the-Pacl-Britain, urged all members of the London. August 28. "General
fic. Like other such territories, House of Commons to support MacArthur's
sup- Bands acted
South and Interdict all aca lanes
Stevenson, Sir Ralph Skrine in the Western Pacific.
its legal status cannot be fixed their demand. in the pressed statement expressed
S. G. Lenny, a member of the the the British Ambassador in Cairo, until there is international action "Submarine blackade by
The Club view that a friendly Formoss it shield to all the
Committee, Management all its
determine its future. to destructive may come to London for discus- necessary to the security of the all
enemy with United States. He said war could Ocean area.
From this island chain we ramifications would thereby besions with Mr. Ernest Bevin, the Chinese Goverment was asked told reporters: "Action must be -sur- taken soon because a treaty with Foreign Secretary, on the revision come to the United States' shores
by the Allies to take the power come a virtual certainty. dominate with air
General MacArthur that of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty be- if the island, now held by the can
render of the Japanese forces on Japan is likely to be concluded goes the island.
That is the reason in the near future. Chinese Nationalists, fell into un- every Asiatic port from Vladivo-
"The American ex-prisoners slok to Singapore and prevent President Truman's decision on fore the Foreign Secretary
the Chinese are there now. friendly hands,
movement, inte the July 27 to defend Formosa "light-10 New York on September 7. any hosille
by This was stated today
(5) The United States has have been granted compensation ed into flame a lamp of hope
Foreign Office spokesmen.
record through history of friend- of a dollar for each day in capti- "Nothing could be more falla-Pacific.
"Any predatory attack from hroughout Asia that was burn-
No arrangements had yet been
ship for the Chinese people. Wejvity and the Australian Govern- cious than the threadbore orgu-
be an amphibiousing dimly toward extinction."
made for Sir Ralph to come to still feel the triendship und know ment has set up a committee to ment by those who advocate ap- Asin must
"Nothing could be more fal-
but peasement and defeatism in the effort. No amphibious force can
his recall was a that millions of Chinese recipro- consider an Australian claim." the added
the Club is Mr. Lenny said We took the lead with Paclite that if we defend Formosa be successful without control of lacious,"
rate it continental Ash the aca lanes and the air over than the threadbare argument we alienate
While Mr. Bevin is in New others in the last United Nations backed by the British Legion.- Those who speak thus do not un- these lanes in its avenue of ad- by those who advocate appense-York for the United Nations General Assembly to, secure ap-Assoclated Press.
the Orient.United vance," General MacArthur said. ment and defealism in the Paci- General Assembly next month, fie that if we defend Formosa we he is expected to discuss with Natural line
alienate continental Asia.
Salah El Din Bey, the Egyptian "To pursue any other course Foreign Minister, the
been would be to turn over the fruits Egyptian. talles which have
po taking place in Cairo.. of our Pacifle victory to
enemy. It would shift
inviting the Communists to
derstand
Press.
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"Enter such conditions the American continent."--Reuter.
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*
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main- operations, but properly tained it would be an invincible defence against 'aggression. If we hold this line we may have
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