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China

Immediately thereafter, it also inter-
vened in China’s Civil War by placing
the Seventh U.S. Fleet in the Formosa
Strait, under the pretext of protecting
the southern flank of its military
forces. This was also in violation of
the United Nations Charter. Having
succeeded in forcing the United Na-
tions to intervene in a civil war in
violation of its .own Charter, the
Truman Administration then forced the
United Nations to accept its puppet,
Chiang Kai Shek, located on the tiny
island of Taiwan, as the U.N. represen-
tatives of all of China. These stupid
acts finally forced the real China into
the Korean War in defense of her core
interest, North Korea.

Germany

This writer was stationed in Berlin,
Germany, September 1945 to November
1947, as head of a program designed
to provide the German people in the
U.S. Zone with enough food to prevent
starvation and unrest which might
threaten the security of United States
forces. From this observation post, I
watched at close range the disastrous
results of Truman’s revived Cold War,
which were: A divided Berlin, Ger-
many, and Europe, and a rearmed Ger-
many. These tragic errors, when com-
bined, in my opinion, not only threaten-
ed the peace of Europe, but also the
peace of the world. In addition to
this, I would like to record two 4
interesting personal experiences whic
I consider germane to my German as-
a ase 30, 1947, at Stuttgart,
Germany, the late former President,
Herbert Hoover, told a group of Ber
mans which I had assembled to dis-

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cuss food import requirements for the
U.S. Zone, “We are counting upon
your support in the coming war against
the atheistic barbarians of the East.”

The other incident occurred a few
days before I left Germany for my new
assignment as U.S. Military Attache to
Austria. The occasion was a discussion
of German currency reform with one
of the top advisors to the U.S. Military
Governor. in answer to my inquiry
as to how the negotiations were going,
he replied that the United States was
imposing conditions that the Soviets
could not accept. Apparently in reac-
tion to my obvious surprise, he stated,
“We are going to drive the Russians
not only out of Germany, but out of
Europe.” It was the introduction of the
new German mark which “the Soviets
could not accept,” into the three West-
ern sectors of Berlin that provoked

_the Soviet ground and water blockade
and the U.S. Berlin air lift response.

Eisenhower

The eight Eisenhower years in the
White House have come to represent a
period of relative national rest from
the previous 30-odd years of war, Hot
and Cold, depressions, and maddening
world tensions. On the positive side:
he ended Truman’s Korean War; re-
fused to enter the French colonial war
in Indochina in spite of the urgings of
his Vice President Richard M. Nixon,
his Secretary of State John Foster

Dulles, and the recommendations of

all the members of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff save that of General Matthew B.
Ridgway, the Army Chief of Staff; and
he reduced the annual military budget
to the manageable amount of $40
billion. It is now twice that amount.
On the negative side, General Eisen-
hower permitted Dulles to organize
SEATO, which proved to be the enter-
ing wedge by which the Kennedy,
Johnson, and Nixon Administrations
later converted the French colonial war

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in Indochina into an American imperial
war; and permitted the CIA to begin
its massive expansion into a govern-
ment inside the government, with
power to overthrow foreign govern-
ments and make limited warfare upon
them, clandestinely make foreign
policies, and actually engage in mas-
sive espionage and sabotage programs.
None of these, however, gained any-
thing remotely resembling their present
massive power during his eight-year
stewardship.

The One Thousand Days of the Ken-
nedy Administration were dominated,
in my view, by strife, turmoil, and near
national disaster during the missile
crisis, October 1962, and énded in the
personal tragedy of the Kennedy assas-
sination, November 22, 1963 ....

Johnson

The widely circulated and much-dis-
cussed Pentagon Papers disclosing the
colossal and calculated character of the
deception imposed upon the Congress
and the American people by the John-
son Administration as to why and how
it catapulted this nation into the Indo-
chinese jungle, makes unnecessary, it
seems to me, further discussion here.
I would add one caveat, however, and
urge Congress, the press and people to
examine closely at all times the activ-
ities of the Nixon Administration,
which seem to me to be based on the
same false assumptions, myths, and
objectives as those of its predecessors.

The solid fact remains that succces-
sive “Washington Administrations have
pursued a global grab for power policy
since WWII under the euphemistic
terms of “Communist containment.”
This term has been used, in my opinion,
as a fig leaf to cover up their real pur-
pose, which is, world domination by
the United States. And in pursuit of
this objective, they have brought this
nation perilously close to a fascist-nazi
state, the one thing we allegedly fought
WWII to avoid.

egal, Immoral

Along with many millions of the
most dedicated, best-informed and
most patriotic Americans, I’ve charac-
terized successive Washington Admin-
istration wars of aggression upon the
Indochinese people as illegal, immoral,
and genocidal. Vietnam was one na-
tion before the United States was dis-
covered, and the 1954 Geneva Agree-
ments confirmed that she was still one
nation. A nation cannot commit ag-
gression against itself. It was the
Eisenhower Administration that viol-
ated the Geneva Agreements by in-
structing its Saigon quisling agent,
Ngo Dinh Diem, not to permit elections
throughout Vietnam in 1956, as sched-
uled at the Geneva Conference 1954.
(See Eisenhower’s book, Mandate for
Change; and General Ridgway’s book
Soldier: Memoirs of Matthew B.
Ridgway).

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1972—PaGE Z