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LIKELY IN KOREA

The American and Australian Air Forces can do everything to the enemy but rout him. The lenacity and endurance of the Reds under ruthless systematic aerial attack-rockets, high explosives, low-level strafing and hideous gasoline-Jelly fire bombs, which incinerate, or suffocate Lan been astonishing. They have rot yet faltered under this con- centrated unopposed ordeal from the sky, which; over a prolonged rerled of non-resistance - is every soldier knows-can destroy the morale of an air-weak army even more effectively than it can smash its physical strength.

By

Richard Hughes

the

Assurance

that the beside

but

ACCEPTS CHALLENGE

From ROBERT SHEARER

were

central

to

There can be no ̈swift vic-, Korean, one of which seems to his weak force with the dogh, mysteriously disappeared resolution; and calculated risk have tory in Korea until United] from the vital Pohang sector. that would be expected' of one of Nations troops are heavily This Blender force spread thinly the

Int General Patton's

General MacArthur," according Когда reinforced.

und the dangerous gaps in favourite corps commanders.

to us, "is remaining in The South Koreans fought

indefinitely, to command what! mountainous country has been

elimatic the war's srd-pressed. Over the moun- bravely and well once they were

may bo talns, the mobile, fanatical cn- stiffened' by adequate equipment

campaign. The main objectives

vital Rovere

Ned any, living off 'the country in and allrates la pessant disguise. That Americans were fighting

The announcement from the communications." venerable wor correspondent, them. They have a brilliant Vatican that the Pope will One only hopes the climato Plutarch, described succinctly a young leader in Chief-of-Staff, hold

thirtyish,

a secret consistory of will not be too severe, similar dileman confronting the smart.

staff-trained by the Chrdinals in October to an- Roman lender Metellus in action Kwon,

"Water found containing rare Japaneso and Amerlenna As a nounce his intention to pro- element." I've never #ctually good Korean, Chung, Ken claim a now dogma has a had it analyzed, but when I order hates the Japanese,

one of the milltary realist he privately significance that goes far be- a whisky-water at

hotcin, I can

nearly shares the opinion of many yond simple theology. American officers that Пve

The new dogma will be official- always detect a little whisky in-

the public in a JL, Japanese divisions--recruited asly heralded to "volunteers"

by overnight

special ceremony in St. Peter's democratie réscript of the re- Cathedral on All Saints' Day,

It's not so much the shortage. formed, penitent, new-style En-November 1. Then it will become of small change that worries me against Iberian Communista nearly peror Hirohito would be the obligatory for the faithful to be- na my chronic lack of banknotes most effective United Nations relieve in the Assumption of the two thousand years ago.

the inforcement against

goat Virgin Mary in bodily form into denominations. "Metellus had lund experience nimble Redk in the steep Korean Heaven..

Overheard at Kal Tak: In battles fought by regular >$12.

During the Vatican Counell legions of soldiers fully armed Dangerous weaknesses have

"Now. don't you meeting in 1980 the doctrine for

go flying and drawn up in due order, od- been revealed

top-level the Assumption of

the Virgin faster than sound, pilet, because mirably trained for encountering American and British co-ordina- and overpowering an enemy who tion. The smull British force, rat became a matter of serious this other lady and I want to

discussion. Since that time it talk." came into close contact, but he welcomed by the Americans, with has been supported by more than was entirely unitted for climbing heart-warming hospitality and 3,000 petitions addressed to Bome Feminine cunning-keeping u among hills, and competing in-gra

gratitude, cessantly with the swift attacks and retreats of the fleet moun- teineers, or to endure hunger and thirst, or to live exposed to the wind and weather without fire or

But of itselt, this aerial ascen- daney, and technical genius will not win this war. It can effect a stalemate, and even weaken the enemy's supply to the point where withdrawal may be compelled. Eut if full occupation of South Korea is denied them, the Reds will fight stubbornly for that stalemate as their next best al- ternative.

Besides, a protracted war will Involve Red China. And, if the Chinese Armies on the Korean border begin tu morch. the United Nations forces in their present and foreseeable strength must simply quit Koren, or open an unprepared third world covering.

war.

Fanatic enemy The United Nations have roughly the equivalent of eight divisions, Including four South

That is the

the

In

poorly-equipped,

life-and-death

ו'

But

Won't change.

of

•

•

considerably

larger

on

heard since war

!

"There is hardly a profession, from the oldest to the most recent, that is unrepresented among our ellents."

•

is

from

various dioceses, by 113 man at arm's length by a hair's und dependent to on embarrass- Cardinals and by more than 32; breadth. ing degree on American supplen 000 priesis.

оп American This dependence

In 1940 the present Pope sent Must say it's heartening to see

U.N, troops Inchon bounty raises a

War Office out a circular letter to Catholic the question which the may eventually face on a world-bishops all over the world asking towards vietary like this.

"Best news Identical predi-wide, instead of a Korean scalo: whether they considered. It "poss!- The Reds, despite their casual-cument of the Jeep-conscious c. unsuitability of American ble and convenient" to proclaim

it as an article of dogmatic belief, began. ties--which are estimated by the American in Korea todog, who, tammunition for British arms.

"North Koreans unimpressed." Americans at 50,000

The great majority replied in The crack Australian battalion or one while fighting with great bra-

But the opposi- What'd you expect them to be quarter their original strength very and bloodily-acquired

Japan, which Immediately the amrmative. Cx-iti

# man to fight tion was sufficiently large to make-tickled red? have 13 to 15

divisions in the rerience, supported by heavy volunteered to Beld, with reinforcements of an-

tenis and artillery, leaves theeside their Occupation friends it a surprise that the Ponti is

been held up determined to proclaim the new❘ H'm. and allies, s other four divisions in sight, roads only with the greatest re- They have lost many officers and fuctance to winkie Reds out chafing in Japan because it is dogma.

under-strength and deficient in truck troops, and they are short of the sharp rugged ridges.

resources - éven of food, but they have not lost

Nor is there any real soul to elementary

Only a halfwit would boots and shirts. Since the closing phases of the will to light, and they are in this war

no way short of courage.

the canonisation of the In Tokyo, there is pettish L believe that any profound sym-

After a year or so of married World War II, the Sterling

thy, or even worm liking exists feeling between the British Em-eleven-year-old Italien girl, Maria

comes lo many outh bassy and General MacArthur's Goretti, in June was the Catholle bliss, there Area has often been under

between Americans and Koreans. Soldiers from

Headquarters over the repulse of Church's rebuke to the godless couples the patter of little feet, heavy fire from critics in non-

United States and Britain notori-attempts by the British Ambas ness and easy morals of youth and they realise the house sterling countries, and

only have little abstract opin-ador, Sir Alvary Gascoigne,

Mac everywhere, and is a proof that overrun with mice. through General

the Vatican inkes a most serious pecially in the United States.

ton or articulate comment on why break

Arthur's brasscurtain" to sc view of the murals of today.

"Get the bulky, casual look so Its entrenchment has been at-

they are fighting, but they

the General kimself.

Similarly, the proclamation of chle this autumn-one sweater tacked on the assumption that to find a resting-place in the usually detect a menace in any

a new dogma this year can be with a rounded V neck for you. it is a deliberately-contrived contral dollar reserves of the was to their country, or to their As they profanely insist,

Laken to mean that the Vatican and your man." system of economic nation-Sterling Area, and will pro- they can detect nothing of that

Is prepared to accept the challenge › Bulky, casual, and so intimate, It secins Imperative that of a world which "denies us every alism-an apparatus used on bably be more than sufficient soit in this war.

However, they have now

Whitehall and Washington re- hope and which proves beyond Courage shows in Myrtle's eyes, the one hand to protect the to make good any drain caused

cstablish without delay some doubt from its present condition and pluck in her nicely arched home markets of the coun-by Britain's own loss of dollar- developed a hatred for the en-- einy largely because of his

such permanent military liaison that only through Christian peace brows. atrocities. And thelr early tries within it, or to reserve earning power.

aroups as the Allied Joint Chiefs can the earth attain lasting tran-

out quility."

The Church is insisting

"Handsome Avenues of trees In the nine months before natural resentment at the spec-or-staff which hammered them for British goods, and

of able-bodied Korean military und technical co-ordina- adamantly that sho cannot give city on urban touch."

On the other hand, the dispersal may planning

claimed by a Pope since 1854. a rural touch. prove disastrous. Korea may

the when

doctrine of the Im- Conception became become Indo-China or Formosa, cr both, tomorrow. It may be maculate

dogma. Yugoslavia nexi And Europe next year,

Pope Pius has taken this step

CS-

had

home.

cun

come

"A mistake"

to

week.

On the diplomatic side, London when nearly 40 per cent of the must realise that there is strong world's population is living un- Communism. The Roman and growing American opinion der

**

•

There are two genders on our beaches-masculine and nuder..

on the other hand to dis Korea a strong resumption of (acle

youths squatting impassively by tion In the second world war. eriminate against other goods, America's demand for primary the road and watching the white otherwise loose, unco-ordinated, change and will not change,

This is the first dogma proof faclorics is giving the country especially United States commodities

or even rival already man move forward to "defend " goods. Well-informed people transformed the appearance them has disappeared as Presl- have now begun to see that if of the Sterling Area's dollar tent Syngman Rhees conscrip tom orders become effective, and the Sterling accounts. In the first quarter 5,000

Koreans in American countries of

edch Arca have had to discrimin- of 1950, for the first time since battledress are added to ate since the war against non-detailed records have been American division, to take over

the hill fighting.. sterling goods, and especially kept, the Sterling Area as a against dollar goods, the root whole earned a net dollar causes of that discrimination surplus one of 40 million are to be found not in the dollars; and in the second mechanism of the Sterling quarter the surplus rose to Area system but in the hard facts of the dollar shortage.

Obviously, it is still much too soon to make firm fore

опе

Anglo-U.S. co-operation

Tough little General Walton 180 million dollars. This did walker, Generol MacArthur's not mean that the dollar pro- Korean commander, hus handled blem had been solved. On the eve of Korea, authorities

response

claims

in Tokyo that armed intervention Church in Eastern Europe, like!

Churches, in Korea was a mistake and has other

15 practically stripped A enslaved. has been played into Stalin's hands.

It been set. It is of its possessions and authority in precedent has flaimed, for remote diversionary all lands under Russion fluchce.

Were it not for the extraor ttacks on weak points in the

Catholic cimocratic front by ovie: dinary growth of the aimed puppets who will seek to Church in the New World during bleed the Americans while the the last twenty years, ils material Russians build up atomic stock-influence on affairs would be small

Indeed.

The

defen-

new

Serious view

with

which the

Vatican regards

casts about the effects of in Britain were emphasising ing Area, and the post-war piles.

The United States and te world re-armament upon in- that the export effort dare not dollar shortage has perforce ternational economic relation- rest on its oars: this apparent kept this system in-being- United Nations, it is complained pre now committed to fight pince-

The Vatican seems to have ships and world balances of capacity of the Sterling Area except for the disastrous and meal where and when the Soviet payments. But

guess to keep reasonably out of the brief experiment in conver- dictates and to remain, it would chosen 1950 as the year of the Marian dogma not for that stands a better chance red on its dollar account de- tibility three years ago. The seem, invariably on the

ecclesiastical reasons alone, not than most of being right is pended absolutely upon the other major consequence of The answer to that defentist

Year, but rather to cheer and that Europe's problem and the continuance of American buy- World War II was the vast reaction is that the Korean war ven mainly because this is Holy Sterling Area's problem of ing, and the maintenance of growth of the overseas mem- has momentarily at least as exalt humanity in the belief that

ranks of the United Nations, on London. dollar shortage now seems world primary prices, at bers'

and that the first Soviet-armed Communism can never conquer

Christ. likely to take second place. boomtime levels. "Now the Beyond doubt, in this post challenge could have been major It is a proof of the seriousness

the war phase of dollar scarcity, and perhaps mortal instead of to There are two reasons why dramatic this is likely to happen, and North Korean assault has de- the fact that payments for minor and at least contained.

be But that desperate unity must the present international situa these are pointed out by the ferred these particular anxie- British exports might now be courageously developed, tion; and its sources of informa- Editor of "The Banker" of tins to a distant future. Other made by drafts on these and extended-firstly by strong tion are still among the best in London. President Truman's anxieties have taken their accumulated sterling balances Infantry reinforcements in the the world, quick thinking has ensured place.

has often given British ex-Korean deld, and secondly by the more realistic co-operation" be- that, just as United States The second reason why the porters an advantage over tween Britain and the United troops were first on the scene dollar problem is likely to hard-currency exporters in States. Otherwise the sacrifics of of the Korean conflagration, so fade in significance is that the the markets of the overseas the Americans and the British now dying in brave but sullen will the production potential stronger and the more con- Sterling Area.

bewilderment around the Jagged of the United States be in the certed the Western defence Even so, the total of theils and in the green rice pad- vanguard of world re-arma- effort becomes, the more will belances has grown, and is dies of South Korea will have ment. Britain's defence effort, movements of goods within now rising further as primary teen in vain,

+

and probably those of the the whole wide group tend to producers in the Sterling

dollar POLES APART

decided

many

10

the war ended

settle in Britain and, whenever I

In these

other Atlantic Treaty powers be influenced and determined Area deposit their too, will soon be in close sup- by availabilities of physical earnings with the "bank" in

When But this rise will port of that lead-though of supplies rather than by avail. London. course at the lower levels per- abilities of particular cur- not go ori indefinitely, because Follah, servicemen mitted by their much smaller rencies. The United States the overseas countries want was possible, their familles went national resources and by the has shown that Britain would value in goods for their dol-to join them. The Poles are in- heavy burdens of still uncom- never be deprived of Ameri-lars, and their defence needs tensely national in thought and pleted rehabilitation from can tools or materials needed (edmbined with improving have a deep-rooted sense of Polish World War II.

thorities decided that the country's for her defence effort merely dollar reserves) will make tradition, and the British au- These defence efforts will because she could not earn them more insistent. Indeed, new eritizens should be allowed.

the Polish way impose further burdens, and the dollars to pay for them: but for the special conditions to follow

they assimilated the Brilleh way will diminish dollar-earning Britain, for her part, has created by devaluation, it thought whilst at the same time power, which, explains why already announced officially would already have been of life. Schools have been set up President Truman has offered, that she hopes that part of apparent that this supposedly in centres where there are many

Polish families and mechanismx and the European powers are her defence production may discriminatory

schools children are taught the seeking additional dollar ald be available to help meet de would hold together in its olish Language, History and cul- for the purposes of defence ficiencies in the forces of present form only if British ture, alde by side with the sub- production. But while while other Atlantic Treaty powers exporters could give value for Jucts that form the normal cur Britain's dollar exports are and that she proposes to money in competition with riculum for British children of likely to shrink and her transfer any such equipment dollar oxporters. For the the same age. dollar imports to rise, to those countries free of future, the pressure of arma-1 The latest development in thes the dollar position of the Ster- charge. These are merely ment production on Britain's Polish schools has been to in- ling Area as a whole is ex- the first instances of concert resources makes it probable augurate" "Top of the Form" pected to be reinforced. The ed arrangements that

are that some of the Sterling Arca contest, in, which children from different schools' compete against large and rising armament likely to become steadily demands for essential supplies each other In general knowledge production and stock-piling of more widespread:

will have to be diverted to contests. The Follah boys' schools the United States are likely War in the phase of "cash- wards the dollar area. But in Britain competed against the girls schools. The teama In the to ensure a long sustained de-and-carry" turned sterling then the question will be final round of the contest were the mand, at good prices, for the into an inconvertible cur whether the dollar area can "7 Paderewski School from primary products of the Sterrency, protected by a ring-spare them. The issue of Stowell Park and the Bottisham ling Arentin, rubber, wool fence of exchange control "discrimination" is Indeed Camp School near Cambridge, and many others. Many of flung around the whole Steri- losing its force as a live con- the boys of Bottisham by six these earned dollars are likely (Continued at foot of hext Col) (troversy:

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