@ Premier Chou En-lai of the People’s Re-
public of China .. . His country has a
common border with Korea, yet his
government, recognized by Britain as
the government of Chima, is denied a
seat on the United Nations Security
Council to discuss a peaceful settlement
of the Korean issue.

§

On July 7%, workers’ homes in Nampo,
Hyngnam and’ Wunsan were ruthlessly
bombed and strafed by American planes.
A number of workers’ dependents, includ-
ing older women and children, were killed
or maimed and many workers’ dormitories
destroyed by the Americans. —Phyongyang
Radio. : .

The United States was going to the aid
of a nation established and supported by

. the United Nations... .

It may be that the South Korean Re-
Public, which the Americans eventually
brought into being, was not a very happy
creation. At the time of the invasion there
were 14,000 political prisoners; the assas-
Sination of the leader of the Opposition
was an ugly affair. Some of the Southern
leaders have openly favored accession to
the Northern state and there have been
pro-Northern mutinies among the police.

_* Manchester Guardian, June 27,

- . . and unjustifiably attacked by an
aggressor force . .
_ There are no few people in South Korea
Who see the only solution of hard econ-
omic problems in military attack against
the North. The well-trained army of 100,-
000 men, armed by the Americans, together
with police troops of some 50,000 men,
_ Should probably be much stronger ‘than
_ the North Korean army. —Neue Zuercher
Zeitung, June 20. :
The attack upon the Republic of Korea
makes it plain, beyond all doubt, that the

international Communist movement is pre-
_ pared io use armed invasion to conquer in-

ent nations . . .

The expansion of the Communist orbit
is being carried out by Asiatic forces. The
containment of communism involves every-
where European or American forces. : . .
_ Always it is necessary for the Westerners
to participate in the fighting itself, Never
_ yet has it been necessary for the Russians

to do that. —Walter Lippman, July 1.

I have already directed that United.

States forces in support of the Philippines
be strengthened and that military assistance
be speeded up to the Philippine government

"he Philippine government, in the view
of American experts, is hurtling down the
Slopes that led Chiang Kai-shek to dis-
aster... . Certain members of the Ameri-
can armed forces are advocati Me si
American re-occupation as the only e
“means of averting collapse. —London Ob-
server, May 28, 1950. he
+. to the associated states of Indo-
China and to the forces of France in Indo-
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The Bao Dai administration has to rely
entirely on foreign support for its sur-

_Wival and has to depend on the French —

army for its security (from its own peo-
) and on the old French colonial per-

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sonnel to keep. it going, precisely because ©

no patriotic Vietnamese would take a hand
in it. —From a letter to the London Times,

May 1, 1950. '

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Frenchman, SES have been fighting

. communism in Asia for nearly four years,
are pleased and relieved that the United
States had decided to do the same thing.

The war in Indochina, which has been,
‘Tegarded by many Americans as a French
colonial enterprise of only incidental in-
‘terest to the United States, is now being
recognized as a part of the Western strug-
gle against world communistm. ... Before
last Tuesday, the French were not sure
how much of the needed arms they would
get and how fast. Since President Truman’s
announcement, the whole operation is be-
ing speeded up, and -is obviously being
given a high priority by the Americans.
—New York Herald Tribune, July 4.

Our Indochinese battle is a fight analo-
gous and parallel to that of the United
Nations in Korea. —A French foreign min-
istry spokesman on July 16. ‘

This is the rainy season in Korea and
a bad time for fighting’ How does the
North Korean army manage to-be so ef-
ficient? It is as disquietening to see what
Communist discipline can do with an an-
archic people like the Koreans, as it is
to see what the American military mis-
sion failed to do with the South Koreans.
+++ The Western powers often find them-
selves saddled with rather deplorable al-
lies. Syngman -Rhee’s South Korean gov-
ernment is one example, Emperor Bao Dai
is another. ... —Manchester Guardian,
July 5. :

I have also ordered the United States
Seventh Fleet to prevent any attach on For-
mosa..

There is nothing in ‘the North Korean
attack on South Korea which alters the
legal and diplomatic position of Formosa—
a@ position which has hitherto rightly been

seen as not justifying American interven- |

tion.—London Observer, July 16,

Events in Korea constitute no direct
threat to Formosa, and by putting the
island under her protection, America is
directly intervening in the Chinese civil
war... . —Eastern World, London.

Mr. Attlee assured a member of his
Own Labor party that the British naval
units in’ Japanese waters Placed under
‘the command of General MacArthur would
act only in strict compliance with the Unit-
ed Nations Security Council resolution con-
cerning Korea. The prime minister’s un-
spoken implication was that the British
fleet was not committed to the defense
of Formosa, along with the American Sey-
enth Fleet, or to the defense of Indochina,
When J. H. Hundson, Laborite, asked
whether the United States was acting in
conformity with the Security Council or-
der, not only in Korea, but elsewhere in
_the Pacific, Mr. Attlee refused to respond,
—Report on British House of Commons
session on June 29, by New York Herald
Tribune correspondent Kenneth Bilby.

In order that there may be no doubt in
any quarter about our intentions regarding
Formosa, I wish to state thai the United
States has no territorial ambitions whatever
concerning that island, nor do we see for
ourselves any special position or privilege in
Formosa. Th
tion .of Formosa is without prejudice to
political questions affecting that island. Our
desire is thai Formosa not become embroil-

ed-in the hostilities disturbing to the peace —

ef the Pacific and that all questions affect-
ing Formosa be settled by peaceful means
as envisaged in the Charter of the United
Nations .

The island (of Formosa) is a glittering
prize in the struggle between commun-
ism and civilization. —Barrons, New York,
June 19.

The administration is reported to be
viewing its Fermosa policy to see whether
major steps should be taken to prevent

that strategic island’s fall to’ the Chinese

Communists, Up to now the administra-
«tion has been adamant against ushing
arms aid to the island, which Generalis-
Simo Chiang Kai-shek is striving to con-
\vert into a last-stand fortress. The ad-
ministration attitude has been that such
aid would be futile. It considers Chiang
a failure. But Congressional sources said
that Republican leaders in the Senate have
been assured that its policy is “under ac-
tive review” in a new bi-partisan approach
to the problem.... —AP report from
Washington, June 21.

The issue of Formosa raises the critical
question as to how serious the state de-
partment is in carrying forward the cold

the death of his 19-year-old

e present military neutraliza-

- tries, the Japanese soldiers

war which it never stops ranting about.
. .. As regards Formosa, there is a mount-
ing case for action. There is a military
case, because the island is strategically
important. —Barrons, Jume 19.

I shall not attempt to predict the course
of events. .

Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson said
- .. today that there is no present inten-
tion to mobilize reserves in the United
States in connection with the Korean
crisis. —AP dispatch from Washington,
July 3.

President Truman said today that there ;

were no present plans to call the National
Guard or armed forces reserves to duty
because of the Korean war. —AP dispatch
from Washington, July 6.

President Truman reported to Congress

. today he has empowered Secretary of De-

fense Louis A. Johnson to call to active
duty as many National Guard units and
‘as many units and individuals of the re-
Serve forces of the army, navy and air
force as may be required. —AP dispatch
from Washington, July 19.

The army began calling’ up the National
Guard and organized reserve units today
and a high army spokesman said some
of them “may go overseas.”... The air
force disclosed. it may need authority to
start drafting World War II veterans. —
UP dispatch from Washington. :

SOUTH DEFENSE STIFFENS AT HAN
LINE. —New York Herald Tribune, Paris
edition, banner headline, June 30.

U.S: GROUND UNITS ORDERED TO
KOREA AS REDS BREAK THROUGH
HAN LINE, —New York Herald Tribune,
Paris edition, banner headline, July 1.

The United States can be proud of the
part it has played in the United Nations

action in this crisis. . .

Along the roadside on the way to the

front one could see the bodies of numerous

“South Korean civilians” who had been
executed after being discovered in pos-
session of weapons. South Korean police
officials denied that any executions were
being carried out by their men, but an
American regimental commander said the
South Korean police were taking good care
of “Gook spies.” —New York Herald Tri-
bune, July 15.

We can be proud of the unhesitating sup-
port of the American people. . .

The neighbors dropped in on the Shad-
ricks to speak their Sympathy and leave
quietly. It was the newspapermen from
out of town who asked the fancy ques-
tions. "What was Kenny fighting for?
“Against some kind of government,” said
Theodore Shadrick simply. Where was
Korea? He didn’t know—out there some-
where, where his boy had been killed, —

- Theodore Shadrick, Skin Fork, West Vir-

ginia, coal miner received the news of
son Kenny,
in Korea, in Time magazine, July 17.

An officer estimated that one-fourth of
his men were barely literate... . En route
to the front the men behaved as if they
were on a Sunday outing. . . . I have talked
to enlisted men and some young officers
who had not the slightest inkling why
they were fighting in Korea. —New York
Herald Tribune correspondent Homer Big-
art reports from Korea.

. ~ s
The American people, together with
other free peoples, seek a new era in world
affairs . .

President Truman asked Congress today
for $260,000,000 to. speed development of
atomic bombs and Push experiments on
the hydrogen bomb. —AP dispatch from
Washington, July 7. ;

Representative Leon Gavin, Republican,
of Pennsylvania, said in a Speech today
that “we must have ‘the equivalent of at

least 25 German divisions if we are no 9 ea

defend Western Europe.” —AP dis
from Washington, July 11. noite

-.. The trend in Hollywood seems to
be to take it easy on the Japanese. Pic-
tures that are being made now about the
last war, or have been finished but not
released yet, may run into box office
‘trouble. :

In most of the ones on the Pacific coun-
are depicted

as ruthless barbarians who would just as

soon drive a sword into a wounded Ameri- |

can soldier as commit Harakiri. But now
with the Japanese considered almost on
a friendly nation basis, the World War II
atrocity story is passe. The Japanese sol-
dier is no longer the villain he used to
be. There is talk that expressions such as

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“Nip so and so” and “Dirty son of a rising
sun” will be cut from the new war pic-
tures. From now on; for a little while
at least, the bad men and heavies will be
North Koreans, Chinese Reds and Rus-
sians. Hollywood may also ease up on
unfavorable portrayals of the German sol-
dier. The only villain the film capital can
always depend on is the American Indian.
The Redmen can be counted on to scalp
children, kidnap women and burn wagon-
loads full of courageous settlers without
hurting anybody’s feelings. ... —New
York Herald Tribune, Paris edition, July 22.

We seek a world where all men, may live

in peace and freedom, with steadily im-
proving living conditions .

KOREAN WAR IS DRIVING WEST
TO CHOICE OF GUNS OR BUTTER.
ARMS BILL WILL CUT INTO CAPITAL
EXPANSION PROGRAM, THREATEN-
ING LIVING STANDARDS, —Headline in
New York Herald Tribune, Paris edition,
July 20. ;

Like Ourselves, Our allies will have to
turn more economic resources to defence.
—President Truman on July 19.

This will acknowledge receipt of your
letter of July 27, relative to your desire
to secure copies of hearings to be held
before the Special

gressman John F. Kennedy of Massachu-
setts, to the editor of The Railroad Work-
ers’ Link, of June 29,

We have a place to live. Many of the
girls do not... and they . hardly - know

- what’s going to become of them and their

families. —The wife of a Marine Corps
officer at dockside in. San Diego saying
g00dbye to her husband, as reported in the
New York Times,

+ + under governments of their own
choice . .

Without American aid amounting to £33,-
000,000 yearly, the South Korean govern-
ment, p regime whose inefficiency and
repression smacks of Chiang Kai-shek’s
regime, would have collapsed long ago.
—London Evening Standard, June 25,

This is the great tragedy of Korea: it ~
has never been fundamentally democratic,
in spite of the efforts of the U.S. and
the United Nations
sent the country as democratic in their
reports. Where
who could have cherished the thought that

tyranny, it was
of a’ man who was soon being described
“the terrible old man”

to oppress the coun-

Western Germany.
For ourselves, we seeh no territory or
domination over others . . ,

President Truman said: “We'll be able
‘to retain a foothold in Korea, one as far
north as the 38th parallel.” Asked whether
that means there would be no “police ac-
tion north of that line,” Mr. Truman said
that decision would be made when it be-
comes necessary.—AP dispatch from Wash- --
ington, July 13.

In an interview yesterday with your cor-
respondent, Dr, Syngman Rhee, president |

of the Republic of Korea, said that in
his view

We will follow the course we have chos-
en with courage and with faith, because we
carry in our hearts the flame of freedom,
we are fighting for liberty and for peace .. «

‘ A wave of selling rolled over the stock
market late today, apparently touched off
by rumors. of a “peace offensive” in the

Korean war,—AP dispatch from ‘New York,
July 11,

++. and with God’s blessing, we shall
succeed, é

T never saw such a useless damned war
in all my life. —A

bloodshot-eyed
dent