Evening star., 1950-08-27
Rebuke OF Acheson
To Matthew'S Starts
Preventive War Talk
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cident, which former Secretary of
State Byrnes won when Mr.. Wal
lace resigned as Secretary OF
Commerce. there had been a
firmly established policy on clear
ance of speeches on foreign af-
fairs. Any speech by Government
officials which goes beyond the
established lines of foreign policy
Gas laid down by the President)
should be cleared with the State
Department, Mr.. Tubby explained
Orders Given for Clearance.
Mr.. Wallace was fired by Mr.
'rruman in 1946 after making q
speech advocating a softer policy
toward Russia. The President at
that time ordered that no official
should make speeches in conflict
with established foreign policy
and that:
Amy public statement on for
eign policy shall be cleared with
the Department of State
The Defense Department saio
that the Matthews speech was
not cleared by the Office of Dep
uty Defense Secretary Stepher
Early, who is charged with clear
ing official utterances on q policy
basis.
It was cleared, a spokesman
said, by the Public Information
Office security branch since it die
not contain any violations of ma
'tional security.
Speaking for Himself.
Mr.. Matthews had this. to say
yesterday:
"It was not intended to be any
expression of administration poi
icy. I was speaking for myself
The speech speaks for itself"
Mr.. Matthews is not alone in hi.
talk of a possible blow against
Russia. George N. Craig, nationa
commander of the American Le-
'gion, demanded only yesterday ir
a speech here that the United
States construe any further Com
munist satellite aggression as "the
signal for our bombers to wins
their way toward Moscow"
Whether the administration!
prompt reaction against Mr.
Matthews opinion would cause
him to resign was a question o.
immediate speculation in Wash
ington.
Two Main Concerns Noted.
State Department officials sale
they were moved by two main con.
Germs in promptly repudiating Mr.
Matthews statement:
/. They feared that Russian
propogandists would seize on tn,
statement as evidence to supper
their longtime charge tina
American war mongers" are "pre.
pairing to unleash a new war"
2. They considered the idea O.
what is generally called pre-.
ventive war" wrong. In their view
no modern war between grea
powers can be won by either sids
without enormous and per-
manently damaging losses; further
they believe that Americas leader.
ship of peaceful nations depend:
on its own thoroughgoing devotion
to peace.
Those are policy lines which
Mr.. Truman, his foreign policy
co-ordinator, w. Averell Harri-
man, and other top civilian Off,
cials In the Government arr
known to hold along with Mr.
Acheson.
Diplomats Guessing.
Whether there is another group
in the Cabinet for which Mr.. Mat.
thews has now become spokes-
man. whether his argument re-
fiected Navy or general military
thinking-those were question:
which had diplomats guessing.
There is no doubt, however
that there are many people IL
Congress and outside it who be-
lieve that the United State.
should take q much stronger line
in dealing with the Soviets. View.
generally range from the bale
proposal to drop an atom bomt
on Moscow to the idea of drawing
a global line against Communis
aggression and telling the Rus.
slams: step over this line ane
we fight"
The basic arguments which hav,
been advanced for more forcefu
action by the United States are
First, that this country shoult
take advantage of it's margin O
superiority in atomic weapons be
fore the Soviets catch up; second
that in the last analysis all-ou
war will be the only way to dea
with the possibility of a who'll
series of little aggressions" fol
lowing up the attack in Korea.
Promises Challenged.
Underlying assumptions of thes