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PRE-ARRANGED AGGRESSION

THE CHINDA MAIL. J

THE ROT PEOPLE

KOREA: THE

TALK IN

BRITAIN

troops; and these

were exactly. | The primary 'decision WAS the circumstances under which whether or not this Communist the Joint American-South Korean negression was to be, resisted at Fjendquarters of Şuwde wore bur- | mḥ1.

ted on the night of July 1. riedly and unnecessarily evacu-

Long, hard struggle

The armchair critics

Gold war.

As one executive said to the quer, "It's eil for one, and won for all."

"chuman receives U.N, note for

If the answer was "Yes" to It had to be resisted immediately, not three months henge after su expeditionary force, and all that It implies, had been prepared had been rapidly and effelently desh after the Southern Koreanengre troops."

trampled underfoot,

"Hat The Yanka ore, making à It only scure base for re- Bash of it--they never were inforcements and equipment lie patch on the British as fighting, same 300 miles distant by, sen. mon

The war in Southern Korea it was a small force-you cannot, lay.an large-scale military opern- daes

not go well-for the

Uons in 24 hours, Even today Americans. All week the raftnfaith after the war bogom it, in nows has been of wildly doubtful it is much more drawals, of U.S. troops trap: due division strong, ped, of apparent confusion hill. This meagre force has been along the line.

operating it monson weather, In an undeveloped country, with un- And in Britain the trichole reliable allies, and nitost Creat play with that evacuation critics are back at the old same tainly without adequate com- without any consideration of the with thigh mean phrases and munications and supplies.

elreumatapees allepding it. petty giles.

Mr. Elfen said in the House of Commons: "It is not a situation which can be handled by one or two American divisions, ... may be a long and hard struggle."

So for on the Airiericans are concerned this has not been even the opening battic of the war, is only the bra skirmish in struggle to which they are fully bal committed and to which Beltons,

ton, are fully Committed.

And 30.000 Communist troops, spread along a front of 150 miles and handled with some degree of skit, me operating against it.

What a shambles!" It's all starting all over again. be stopped, A | And it must

moment's reflection would show bow unjustified 1 is. But the armchair strutegist is not given to reflection. The Inst war should

have to be experienced have taught him something buttons of war in a dull altuation evidently didn't.

appreciated,

it

It in a classical picture of the "Buid situation"; and the condi-

10

Fire thing he overlooks is that if the war goes badly for the U.S., This one has keep marked by

goes bailly for Britain,

thick cloud, heavy rain, little ur Second, if mistakes are being support: ronds cluttered with the nade they are the result of debris of the broken South brave decision, not the Ineke of Korcin forces; roads which are in any case only mud fracks of fighting ability.

which vehicles slide.

Kasserine and the Ardennes

In the last war the armchair critica flayed the Americans for falling at the Kasserine Pass and in the Ardonnes.

which

It

Japan

In American-occupied there are 123,000 U.S. troops on waleh General MacArthur can draw for Immediate support; In America perliop another two to three divisidis could be available quickly.

Essential was speed

oner,

with

1

Bit awkward, when he ho atrendy fast his expitol.

Formann.

The British governmeat hea To intervene at whatever force was avaliable- rejected s suggestion that t reported that the first U.S. de- should give military support te ichment was only about 1,000

Such move could have led men-was a political decision and

111 embarrassing situation" not a milltary unc. A politlent] 15

Nationalist decision-ke the British action whereby British warships had to warships sending troops. to Greece in protect

niways uttended by while the latter shelled British 1941-19 dangers and drawbaelt, but they freighters. must be accepted as the Ameri-

pns have accepted then.

Dangerous not to

act at all..

"Defenstunt told the court that

klcked in he was severely

the fracas,"

And can you imagine anything more painful?

•

You can never be sure in the

SCAP

spokestein

•

"Flat to iet.....Furniture may Not oven the armchair crities. attack the baste Amarican decor may or not be taken over."

Not to move in the face made slon,

of this aggression would inevll- carly stages. ably have led to a furtier and inore dangerous one. Surely we

SR tha learned tint lesson between 1936 Korean affale is not "the type of war where women ought to and 1930.

he Wunning around the front

Now, if it had only been a different kind of war....

Water problem it all is!

The rest of the picture is one That can be filled in easily by anyone who the sech war: the

Possibly, even these forces may improvisations" from hastily-gathered force inevitably not be suflelent, especially if the surfers; Inadequate intelligence American troops now Bunting in reports; Irregular supplies: nights Korea, find themselves unable to during which, if you took long keep their foothold.

buth or inequality enough, every In becomes an energy the ground beer wind of rain becomes distant dring: obove all, the rumours which such a situs- tion inevitably breeds.

What were the facts? Kasserine happened during the first campaign of the US troops tukes, too, in the early days of

Fifteen days before the in- vasion of South Korea began. advance notice was given by the Communists of their plans to unite all of Korea under single Parliament by August 15 the fifth anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan ese rule, The knowledge of this advance notice did not become available in Washing-involved. ton until the day after the in- vasion began. The story is revealed by the New York Times' correspondent W. H. Lawrence, in a message from the Capitol on June 26, when a translation of the article in Moscow Izvestia WAS the secured from the Library of Congress.

the war.

Britons mado mis

In the Ardennes-akout which more nonsense has been talked than almost any other episode of list war-von Rundstedt the

diylstons ung more than 20 Against two US. division-grid one of them was not even battle- these treous, seasoned.

outnumbered, enormously sheer, dogged fighting-often in Isolated groups slowed the offensive until the gap could be closed.

Yet

In Korea the difficulties have been as great, the odds us over whelming.

Let us look at the picture and get a sense of proportion.

Russians armed

the North

If the critic says that the

Americans should not have gone into action until they were ready to mount a Kizeable operation, what la the answer to that? Simply and forcefully that Ume There are circumstances which was too short. Speel was the

the try eveli

most Reasoned clamant essential.

But to expect that the Ameri- lines." can military movements could have followed any other pattern, and that such an improvised and thitially weak operation would at cheek the Red aggression, is onee

to be guilty either of an optimism "There are, however, several of they reassure the American so blind as to be fatuous, or a offence dangerous

under-eximation

the enemy we face,

This is not the time to malte either of these blunders.

MacArthur--his method and his mission

The name General Douglas MacArthur calls to mind a picture of a colourful and military person-

The tasks before him in Korea arc, however, anything but

puplic."

to martial pride, but

What is really required is some martial aid.

"Numbers of warktern have received handsome bonuses for thelr efforin in Increasing productein."

Well, one good tǝin deserves

another.

All Communist papers In Japan have been suspended,

Apparently they had chalked

up a number of black Marx, and

When was in Washington two had been Stalin on the question

the

collapse of Southern positions within the first week of Oghting. years ago I was struck by some of Lenin to one side. He knew Uht he would he zend- of his statements on military tac.. ing troops into

of instance, theatre of opera- tics. For

was She daughter, but tions which had been declared] Japanese he said: indefensible by the three Chiefs

Reggie meant. of Staff of the U.S. only three "If you force them into

corner they will fight viciously to

The Communist-dominated sea- months ago.

the depth. They can live a longman's Union in Australia ba

If, therefore, we hear con- time on a little rice and a fow

only

major's

sho knew

what

•

romontie, They are concrete and plaints that the "too-little-too-} supplies. Flank them, give them challenged their government .qa

clear cut.

He is naked to clear Southern

The Moscow paper carried on June 10 a Tass despatch from Pyongyang under the headline "For a United Demot cratic Korea." It may have been noted by one or other

After the Japanese war the of the diplomatic missions in

Russians occupied the Northern powerful Moscow, but if so its signi-half of Korea and the Americans allty, ficance seems to have been the South. missed. The despatch re- vealed the plan of the North Korean Communists to hold géneral elections throughout

The Russians set up a typical North and South Korea be- tween August 5 and 8-the puppet government and equip dates on which it was clearly ped it with a respectable army.

The Americans devoted a lot expected the conquest of the of time and trouble to setting up South would be completed Southern government along and control established. As Western democratic lines, but the Washington correspondent paid much less attention to giv points out, the plain inference it an army. that unity must be achieved and quickly, even if peaceful

seen in this paragraph of the Izvestia despatch, quoting the North Korean Patriotic Front:paign.

"On the fifth anniversary of the liberation of Korea, the people of South and North Korea can and should mark this day by celebrating it in tite folds of one united de-

Like us, the Americans, think:

Korea from the Northern, invader in the shortest possible time and with what appears to be a mini- mum of ground forces, but with. an almost unchallenged control of the sea and a very substantial

open to him:

late" picture is once again pre-a line of retreat, oven though it their decision not to handle arms may lead nowhere, and you have them. You save lives every time."

By Paul Renker

i

This 70-year-old general is, not the secluded demi god some American newspapers make out.

air force. There were two ways, sented we should remember that

Rising at 7 a.m., he breakfasts this is caused by the piecemeal with his Australian wife and his arrival of these troops insite 10-year-old son before going to 1. To continue what seems to Koren, not by a lack of material | his emićo în a black limousine, the in terms of peace first and was be present U.S. strategy in Korea, and troops on the side of the le- biggest in Japan. only when saithdrew hea that is, to ferry troops into ones fending forces in nearby theatres,

The Russians frg0) negotiations failed, could be their zone in December, 1940, Sutational sectors at an accelerated, such as Japon and the Pppy with a number of quests, bel

The Central Committee of the North Korean Democratic Patriotic Front were quoted as declaring that:

"We have never considered and shall never consider the 38th Parallel as a State boun- dary. The Korean people in the South and in the North are impatiently waiting for the

liberation of their country. They wish to live in a State united politically, economically culturally"

and

not before they had ludd pace, to stabilise the front same

tho

where near the 37th Parallel pines.

'and foundations of the present cam-

Lunching at two o'clock, usual- discusses the problems of the day.

to collect there. sufficient forces But this present 'process has to for a counter-attack against 50,000 stop or sise the U.S.. forces in He never misses an hour's Northern mobile troops, or

Korea may find themselves in a afternoon nap, but he works from second Bataan battle which four till eight. marked U.S. defeat la the Phillp-|

ins

The Americans withdrew from the South In July, 1940.

By the spring of this year the

2. To secure such bases in the was set for another Com extreme Spath, the port of Puism, munist coup.

for example, at which → troops When the Communist-inspired d material can accumulate Dggression come from the Nort

weather and the arrival of the Southerners, untrained amphibious

units off +the toust permit a during operation ly led, put up a resistance which of scaling off the South from the has dissolved with disconcerting North nor the 38111 Parallel, rapidity.

This would spell total destruction There was no American force in the country. They had to send of all Northern Korean forets at

advancing South." one in and send it fast. 30 present

In-

Farming hazards

General MacArthur was forced overtime in à completely vain Initially to adopt the Arst course effort to persuade the North in order to prevent a complete fication of the country. Not to agree to a peaceful unt-1 only were the United Nations This Communist Front said Commission ruled out in the that its previous appeals for process of "peaceful unifica the peaceful unity of the coun- tion," which turned out to be try had not been realised, and unification by armed in Farming has its hazards asserted that this condition vasion-the leaders of the everywhere and most of should not be allowed to con- South Korean Government them are natural and ég, tinue beyond the fifth anni- were also ruled out on the pected. Not so behi versary of liberation. No unsupported charge that they-Iron Curtain In The Bus

Beswick Ware mention was made, of courte, were "national traitoray be efan zones pt. Awitis, the vas

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He shuns social gatherings and hardly ever entertains on a large scale but with his family and his closest staff often sees a (ilm show at his home.

We learn how much the pre-

We know today that Generat MacArthur, received his orders personally to leave blaan from sent fighting means to him when his C.-C. President Roosevelt, we recall his own words: after. Mr. Churchlu had read to

"Southern Korea, the Phillp- the President a copy of a gram, sent by Ella Majesty's Coy pinos and Japan form R sturdy crnment to the C-in-C B.E.F. a pillar in a triangular buttress France in May 1940, in which exemplifying before

shipments to their countrymen in Koren

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Don't know about you, but I Canberra ste treason belog con-

used with reason.

Yanks will advanost"

ali the "Qult grumbling, one day the occurred The passege: peoples of the Far East the wis- the Lord Carts Groty dom of the tomberatle" concept," lo return homes in gecoritance with coffeez nilitary procedure, and us personal discretion is test to you in the mater," "

We know that Gegetal Mac Arthur la tenacious defender and would have, preferred 10-Klas with his trips to the lust, but he obeyed drders be any good holdley must.

Influence

to yield oven a mille" to the Northern troops without fighting them with whatever he has at hand.ORND

It is possible that the develop plans to invade Reference has already been tural hazarda ale

ment of strategy in Boren will po South Korea, but the implica- made in a previous buticle to shadowed by a "snatch and coloured by me? General's tee- tions were clear enough by the Report of the UN Com-grab campaign launched by mendera more intuence over reason of the time limit and mission cabled from Seoul 12 Soviet Rgents, Japan, which will make him leath the unacceptability of the con- hours or more after the in-Workcase under the protection

of the Russian Occupation authori dition to South Korea, whose vasion began at dawn on

pics, the agents are touring the moral position had been new June 25. The day before this rich, agricultural districts of Aus ly strengthened by the suc- the Commission's team of obtrin "commandering all the cessful general elections. servers, which had concluded horses they can hud.

Their excuse that' the Ger- There was no prospect what an on-the-spot survey along

kmans' ever of a joint meeting in the 38th Farallel, had report- horses Soqui by August 16 unless the ed: elty had first been taken by military force. Moreover, the North Koreans reiterated in advaitco that they would al low no interference by the Korean Commission of the United Nations in "the work of uniting the country All the blame for sion of the country

to "American

and on Dr. Byng

The Boylet's part ing wha

div

on

that

The outstanding, dangers, are. these:

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North and that they presented Korean forces lure in wrective to the Austrian farmers. The possession of, sallënte on the farmers deny this, maintain South side of the fel ge- the horses are their own, and that,

case if they must be taken away, ASE: Bupation in at Lönst being of 2 rly

date, they be confiscated at harves Them is evide Tint may be reply, that South Korean forces have to harvest time off or

Russiabe any stops for, be making. Aby preparations toret North farms throughout the tal Korean", förres, from any · of States and that there farma noc theso, sallante, Sogar as the life horses Just as fider

the

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more than

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"Anterican · forces now Joy forged into sweridio and lose control

An eventual U.S. counter- 'to pffensive would then have

landings on the tip of Bouth Hores, and he forced to drive the invaders all the way Back to the North,, tonyina Large 4"*Alwilla forces in the paddy-fleldi |

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