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THE BOYS WHO DIDN'T THINK THEY WERE GOING TO FIGHT WANT TO GET BACK TO:–

THE 27th

TERY

GLORIOUS

BRIGADE

By SIDNEY RODIN

Corporal Poits, therefore, soon LIEU- 30. He, too, was a soldier

echoed the feelings of both TENANT EDWARD of the 27th.

officers and men when he told CUNNINGHAM, of

There are more of them in me: "We thought we were just the Argyll and Sutherland this hospital, and in a Glasgow a token durce sent for political Highlanders, will stand up hospital as well, All wounded reasons, and too weak in num-

to be much good in In his wheel chair in ал in Korea, all ighting for the bers

27th-months ago, Yet the 27th fight." Aldershot hospital to

is still in the line. The brigade But in little more than if he can walk on the arti- has been almost continuously weeks they seized their chances

Septem- ficial leg they are going to in action since early

to hit the enemy. At him.

BC3

own on

"He lost his November 7 in Korea. He was just out of school and barely 19, yet he was lead- ing his platoon, fighting in the glorious British 27th Brigade.

In another ward COR- PORAL GEORGE POTTS, aged 21, of the Middlesex for Regiment, is waiting them to add an inch and a half of leather to his right boot heel so that he can irons. He do away with was shot in both legs and his right thigh-bone shat- tered in Korea on October

MacArthur is down

but not out

By George Malcolm Thomson

A

T once

flamboyant silent. He may speak loud and He has plenty to say and austere, Dou- often.

it. His glas MacArthur is and the right to say

political ambitions are patent.

"Poul-

Montgomery has said: Uical battles are the graveyard of generals' reputations."

MacArthur protested loudly. He callsted support in American

public life and among American newspapers. All this was dia turbing in America, Britain and elsewhere.

a figure more often And a vast number of Republi- Many people were reluctant manifest in Latin than in cans will see in the man who even to contemplate war with Anglo Saxon

more America than in North.

Other men

live or

the

He

The impatience of MacArthur, his seeming contempt for demo- cratic susceptibilities, should not disguise the fact that in some respects his political hand. was

CONSEQUENCES

REDS' TARGET

ins

MacArthur greets his wifu.

limited

ber.

And 75 the first severely wounded heal and prepare to leave their beds, they see more their comrades arrive to of

take their places.

War Secretary Strachey told

Commons that after seven and months "distinguished" action,

the

"The Gooks will never drive the Argylls off this hill"-last words of Major Kenneth Muir, V.C.,

of the Argylla.

plans are now in hand for the reller of the brigade. Today they

arc stin killing Com- munists.

a

Potts was a trainee draughts- man when he decided in March the Army his to make 1947

He led the first patrol career, at the Naktong crossing before the first big advance, Two Inter he was shot months rounding up Koreans who came out of a house hiding behind a family with three children. His officer was killed on the spot.

They

miles were then 23 from the Manchurian border.

"The Gooks ore good at infiltrating and al tlding themselves," said the corporal, "but they are poor shots and too fond of running away.

"Our men are young; but they were hardened in hill. warfare

Hongkong. They had got the measure of the enemy before I left. The 27th will go on hitting them for six as long as need be."

tacties in

But among the men there is no bitterness. Without excep- tion, all are proud to belong to the 27th.

Sharing Lieutenant Cunning-

Lance-Corporal ham's ward is MAJOR J. PENMAN,

Argyll and 21, of Clydebank, of the Sutherlands, Не was twice was shot in the groin on Hill 282 on September 28-In the

A

wounded in Korea, and won a

Mulr,

bor to his M.C. in November same for rescuing other wounded under fire.

He said: "There is a terrifle brigade spirit. Morale is high. Our men know what they are

Syme, aged Glasgow

action in which Major the most famous of, ali the 27th, won his V.C, and died,

"We were short of stretchers, so I walked about 600 yards to sald fighting for, and they know a regimental aid post," that their good soldiering and Syrne.

The lance-corporal hopes to steady determination will beat be out of bed soon. And then? Communist herdes with all

their

heir spasmodic fanaticism."

the 1st, There were just Battalion of the Argylls ("The

want to rejoin Dy battalion, and the 27th."

Before they left for Korea,

Harding,

Commander-in-Chief,

Thin Red Line") and the 1st the 27th were told by Sir John Battalion

of the Middlesex -("The Dio-Hards") when the Far East Land Forces: "Shoot

fast, arrived in

shoot straight, shoot lo You carry the honour of the British Army and the British people."

Korea in

brigade August.

But two battalions are only two-thirds of a brigade, and each battalion was below strength. There were fewer than 2,000 men, They had a tanks or artillery, and little

A PAGE

A badly wounded N.C.O. re- membered: **We felt pretty important. We were the first Britons in Karen.

"

-(London Express Service.}

OF GLORY...

a

at

United

a

countries, challenged and outfaced China, and willing to shut their Chiang, could be made to give transport. frequent in South man a heaven-sent Presidential gyes to war when Chinȧ

life to a very different legend. candidate for 1052..

sisted on waging it. Many

that generale When Marshall became Secre- Even so, it must be thought more belleved be- that MacArthur has overplayed should obey their orders and tary for Defence, it should have

the been clear protests for

of the year the Think with keep their

that MacArthur's CYRIL AYNSLEY, Special turn have - MacArthur gives his political hand.

authority would elther be Correspondent in Tokyo, cables: Nations began to advance. The the impression of perform- how much greater subtlety it seclusion of secret telegrams.

27th was there in front. or its days would be would have been played by, say

If it is ing-before-an-invisible mir Eisenhower!

numbered. "Only God of the THE 27th Brigade enter- US. Government," said Mac- ror. There is a touch of

1ed the Koren we enter pages of glory-the B to talks of Brigade have wiltten itscit Tho deplorable effect was that Arthur "can keep me from ful- Bonaparte about him, a

MacArthur, by his methods and filling my mission." The Gov-express request of General one. aniff of Caesar.

his personally, drove many ernment have acted first.

MacArthur, who wanted in- Brigadier Coad was the first fantry badly.

to realise that to beat the It is fourteen years since he

who are neither Communists nor

tem HIS DESTINY

They landed at Pusan on North Koreans and Chinese Last set foot in his own demo-

fellow-travellers into a porary acquiescenco In certain

August 28 tom Hongkong you and to send

your men cratic country. Before that, he 4 good one.

Communist purposes: for in-

MacArthur's diamissal milliary was brought

sug-dressed in jungle green and all climbing hills and he did so, up in д

He found himself fighting stance, the desire to give to the

for the summer cam- gests that Truman will not be ready

Colonel Andrew Mun, second home.

father His

General war which was for two reasons, Communists in the Far Eastern Presidential candidate in 1652. palgn. By November 5 a few in command, was no less kaid Arthur MacArthur

the peculiar and unsatisfactory.

war as many strategic advant for the dismissal will be widely were still in jungle green and good fighter. I remember over foundations of full-blooded

ages as possible.

unpopular in the United States, the brigade was tied up in

whisky and soda te sold: literary style. MacArthur

baftle

The pretty desperate

They're great soldiers. military was eduented at a

MacArthur, ralling in publie

On the day when MacArthur Fackchong.

point is that we've had school, watched over by a dot-

Nominally, the conflict was on against the limitations imposed

passes from his extraordinary They reached Taochon, 40 or them away from mother's ing mother, a figure who may

undertaking of the United Na- on his strategy became a useful position of personal power, the 50 miles south of the Yalu apron string for a long time. explain much to the probing tons. One consequence was begy of the Communists.

British should forget that he River. And it was from Tue-

and members of psychologist. Then came that the general had no clearly

their

the worst endless series of military camps. defined political direction.

MacArthurism" was added troated

with scant respect and should reverse to the propagandist jargon of

the long enemies of Army officers. They and began WELLE

ask too many questiona.” . Fow men have ever Ilved so

represent out

of The line nas stabilised by

Today, the brigade exclusively in a world dominat- strike back at the foe in his portmanteau word

are on by the ideas of hierarchy and remoter bases which were on "American Imperialism" bent the age, with impressive powers General Ridgway, and after the the 38th Parallel. of democracy are equality and Exactly the same situation had gent "free forces" of "the New ambition. He quits his post; he dispute. It is no wonder that existed on a smaller scale in Asia.

does not part company with his MacArthur has seemed to grow Greece,

eece, where it had prolonged

sense of destiny. steadily more remote from the the fighting for many months. habits

As for the problems on which of thought of many MacArthur was expected by bent on nothing of the kind. ordinary Americans and most some of his masters to hold the Ever since General Marshall MacArthur bus broken with his there will be no ordinary British.

38th Parallel- line drawn on wrote off Chiang Kai-shelt and. Government, the map but not on the ground, his regime as total loss, the chance of forgetting them. They existing as a political figment, United States has been willing remain to plague MacArthur's not as a milliary reality. He was to let China evolve in her own. successor, and us, forbidden to bomb the enemy's way. MacArthur photographed

kissing the hand of Mme Express Service) · bases in Manchuria.

ed

representatives chon that they were put in othe

Another was that he could not the Cominform as a convenient renmeng military figures

that he is one of the trek bade.

obedience. But the watchwords technically

HE IS FEARLESS

At the same time, and to some extent for the same reasons, he has come to gain an astonishing ascendancy over the imagination of the

Asiatic Japanese, an people with an appetite for Idolatry matching the general's appetite

for authority His-pro- consular rule in defcoled Japan has, however depended on Gore- thing more than bis assumed (or)

natural) despotism.

Ho has displayed

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neutral

territory, on the destruction of the emer. of mind as well as

In fact, the United States is.

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Germany, Peru, Turkey and the

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has oblained many openly challeriged

by Marshall aid Russia Attacks on Empire preference verment political authority of the United have been resisted by, the Do- officials.

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