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Wt..~ 't~ Pa~ T· ~~ .~flt;' a... \ t) S' f 

Today And Tomorrow 

By Yalta Upp11181111 

Agreement And Disclosure 

IF, AS tbe earlier reports in- dinar1 disclosure, I submit, Is 

dicate, the expected Communist that .the President thinks he can · offenslve has now begun, it is hold General MacArthur re- reassur:lng to !nd that General sponslble "for our being surprised · · MacArthur's view by the Chinese intervention in 

of the outcome KoreL 

is in agreement Mr. Leviero's storY says 

with that of the "President Truman, as the 10-

Pentp..son. . Thef . conferees sat in the aviation hut, 

are ajpoeed in asked General MacArthur about 

thinking that the the poulbWties Of Chinese or offensive can be Russian intervention. General 

contained in the lllacArthur said he saw little 

central region of chance of this." The serious asKo r e a. ''We pect of this is not tba,t Gene!'lll co u 1 d hold in· MacArthur was ~en :Id his 

Kore,.," s a i d judgment about the lntenUcms 

Lippmann General MacAr-o of two foreign powers. The seritbur only last ous thing is that the President 

week Jn his address to Congress, relied on the judgment of tit.a 

.uby eonstmt maneuver and at general bl a matter which be, an approxbnate area where our lon11 squarely within the re- supply line advanf:a'ges were in sponsibWty ·Of the Department 

balance with the supply line dJs.. of State. 

advantages of the enemy ••• " It wu Secretary Acheson who 

There is alreement also, we was responsible for advisinr the 

:inay be sure with his view that President u to the intentions of 

though the o'i!enslve can be JlCID.• China. It was ~tary Acheson 

tmied we clQI. ·"hope at" .bl!~ for who 1?-&d. dai1Y contact with all 

only IUl indecisive campaign w:i~ the clipl.Om,ats and with all the 

Its horrible 8nd constant attrition information services of this and 

yl>OD our force!! 1f the enemy the other gov~ents tbat had 

utilized ·his fulf niWtuY poten• any access to Peipmg and to lttlost,ial,, · cow. At Wake Island the PreBi· 

· • dent should not have been the ~ one wko asked General Mac-

. THE disagreement begins only Arthur to decide whether China 

after the general and the Pe~ta· would fntei:qne. He should have 

pn have agreed that while we been the one who told General ean defeat the oflenslve, we can• MacArtliur what his and his not by lim1ted war obtain a mW· Secretaey of State's judgment 

tary. vlctQry. The Pentagon, as was on this critical point. . Ge.neral Bradley has made clear, ..,. 

prefers a military stalemate to GENERAL MacArthur's com• 

the. risks of seeking victory by ment on the matter 1s VerY in· 

removing the limitations on the teresting Indeed. It wu fn the 

war. General :MacArthur prefers statement gtvei, out for him by . .the risks of an unlimited war his military secretary, General 

to an indecisive campaign of at-· Whitney, on Saturday: "The queatrwon. . tlon was basically a polltic81 one, . The disagreement ls not, there- fnvolvinl decfslons made in 

fore., about the ·battle which is. Peiping and quite beyond the now being fought. Assumfn& of reach ~ GeneraJ, MacArthur's 

course, that the Soviet govern· :lleld in\elllgence • • , as far as 

ment does not intervene direct1Y I know neither the State Depart.. 0r bHUiectJy in far greater force ment nor h1lher int.elllgance \fum. it·.has thus. tar, all are agencJes of the Government had 

qreed fn belleVing that the pi;es- the slightest evidence to warn 

ent battle will be a defensive of such a. decision. Certafnly no pucceu but that it. can be no such warninp Were ·oven to Macmore than that. The generals Arthur. To the contriry, all ap. 

could all be mistaken b\lt. it peared to disc:ount the possibflthey are mlstaken, all the gen- 1ty of such intervention at that . erals will be mlsWcen together. stage. n 

There is no dispute among them If this charge can be sustained 

about the present battle. All of In the cominl investigation, it 

them In a position of command, will throw much light on the 

·the · loint Chi.eta, General Mac- crack-up. For it will show how 

Arthur, General Ridgway and the President and hfs Secretary 

'General van Fleet, are publicly of State lmCOUl'aged, indeed in· 

6iJ. record that our main -position vited, General MacArthur to asfln .central Xorea can be held ~d sume respansibilitles w h i ch, 

the offenaive stopped. and that though not hfs responsibilities 

this can be done-unless the .but their responafbWties. they 

:Snemi is heavily ieinforced by were falling to meet. 

tbe Soviets-wlt1lout ·taking the ...,. :cantroversial measures· which · would expana the war beyond . TBE investigation will also • · make clear that if at Wake Is- . ·Korea. · land In October the question of 

....,. Chinese intervention wu "baTBE STORY by Mr. Anthony slcally a political one and quite · ,Leviero of the New York Times beyond the reach of General Macabout what happened at the Wake Arthur'at 11.etd intelligence," then 

Island conference on October 15 today the 11uesfioD of Soviet in· 

:1s aa. atraordinlll'1' · dJselosure- terventloa aZJcl w.lletber the gen· · ~ the more extraordinary be- eral's recommendations to Concause of what it reveals about gress would brlnr on World War 

the attitude of the President, Ill is also "basically a J¥)lltical 

l'bo must have approved giving one and quite beyond tbe reach 

llrlt. Levlero access to the highly of General JWacArthur's 11.ekl inclaasUled documents. Its extraor-- telllgence.'•