rT LILI een Rene {UNLESS sen Plot against New China seine company ever issued Pogiac: attractive brochure for rochuy Ive investors than the fo gu e the U.S. Army prepared i ied and newspapermen in- © watch U.S, troops in “Op- Smack” against T-Bone Crea, Oreg tungsten mines of North Bu ing st beyond T-Bone Hill. tivig. vestors who count their era) vndé beforehand, as U.S. Gen- eq hi ayne C. Smith (below) list- finge,., victory,” often get their Smack» burned. “Operation Sot smacked. One objective was . RESIDENT Dwight D. Eisen- hower’s announcement that the United States will back an invasion of People’s China shows the purpose behind the seizure of Formosa in 1950. The U.S. government that island then, as now, for the invasion of China. wanted Then General Douglas MacAr-. thur, John Foster Dulles and mem- bers of the Truman administratign planned a quiet consolidation of bases in North Korea, Formosa and Indochina in preparation for a later triple attack on China. But the strength of the Korean reply to attempts to conquer North Korea threw their plans into confusion. Now, in desperation over the failure in Korea of the U.S. Army of 350,000 men’ ¢apart from some half.a million puppet and satellite troops)—General Kisenhower and his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, are to try the plan which the U.S. Command hoped two years ago to put into operation at a time of its own choosing. Chiang Kai-shek and his half a million U.S.-equipped troops are told they are free to invade China, while: the U.S. Seventh Fleet will continue to protect their base against any attempt of People’s China to stop them. General EBisenhower’s announce- ment and other British and Ameri- can statements are all carefully designed to play down the nature of what is now to be attempted. Only Chiang’s forces will be used, it is said. There will only be raids. Anyway, nothing can be done for some time. All such statements are design- ed'to cripple and confuse opposi- tion to American: war plans and to make it easier for Eisenhower and Dulles td push on with those plans. e While the U.S. Seventh Fleet remains in Formosa its involve- ment in the invasion in one way or another is inevitable. In fact the whole plan is design- ed to create the incidents which will justify U.S. involvement and bring about a disastrous flaming By ARTHUR CLEGG PT Dn Seo up of war-along the whole 2,000 miles of Chinese coastline. But General Eisenhower's plans to extend the Korean war, though all aimed at China, extend even wider. In his State of the Union mes- sage he was quite specific as to his intentions. iMentioning (Korea, Indochina, Malaya and Formosa by name, he then went on: “The working out of any mili- tary solution to the Korean war will inevitably affect all these areas.” Immediately . he named two points: “Increased assistance to Korea” and backing for Chiang Kai-shek’s long-prepared attack on China. The rest of the American plans for extending the war in the Far East are still to be revealed. But General Eisenhower has indicated the direction. Such a triple thrust at China has been part of American mili- tary thinking since the start of the Korean war and beforehand. e ‘On June 27, 1950, two days after Syngman Rhee had started the Korean war by driving his troops across the 38th Parallel, President Truman was ready with an order sending U.S, troops and planes into Korea, annexing Formosa, and increasing American war sup- plies to the French invasion forces in Indochina. General MacArthur revealed the same American line of thinking a little more clearly after his visit to Formosa in August, 1950. Then he boasted that, with control of the island, he could ‘dominate with air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostock to Singapore.” Now “General (Eisenhower, giv- ing Chiang Kai-shek the green light, has unveiled American war plans still more. His grab extends even as far as bringing Singapore under American war direction. Yet this move is a move of despair, a desperate adventure. The United States’ great army in Korea is hamstrung by the strength of the Korean defenses. The French Army in Indochina —a quarter of a million men, plus another quarter of a million pup- pets—is barely hanging on to its positions. Chiang’s corrupt troops how- ever they have been armed and trained, and however they may be used, cannot seriously affect the issue. On August 13, 1949, at a time when it was possible for American papers still occasionally to describe parts of, the Far Eastern situation with some objectivity, an article n the Saturday Evening Post de- scribed Chiang’s regime on For- mosa. Of Chiang’s then governor the article said: “The general and his carpet- bagging followers hungrily rak- ed the island’s wealth without putting anything back. “Under the attack of main- land locusts the island’s eecon- omy slipped lower and lower. ‘We drove out a dog,’ Formos- ans said bitterly, referring to the expulsion of the Japanese, ‘but we invited in a pig’.” That was the autumn of 1949, just before Chiang fled to For- mosa in person. The only differ- ence today is that the number of pigs the Formosans have now to maintain has increased. e Chiang’s troops will win no vie- tories for Eisenhower, and he and everyone knows that. But it is not intended that they should. They will have served their pur- pose when they have extended the war. Then the clamor will go up for more British, Canadian and Aus- tralian, French and other forces. The demand for more troops, voiced by General Van Fleet, the retiring commander of the U.S. Army in Korea, will grow in vol- ume and intensity. There will be urgent demands for British treops for Indochina, British warships to help the Am- ericans out on the China coast, more British and Canadian troops for Korea. The Korean war has grown and grown. General Eisenhower is fanning the flames still higher. The way to prevent the war from being spread is to put an end to it where it is now raging —by an immediate cease-fire in Korea. In this. typical propaganda photo Chiang Kai-shek is shown reviewing his forces on Formosa PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 13, 1953 — PAGE 9 —