The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-07-21


reans two months ago. Before the
newly elected parliament could meet
and get rid of Syngham Rhee (S5
year old, he invoked the aid of our
crowd to hold him in office. In the
Manchester Guardian, read that he
twice in the last year asked Ameri-
ca for arms to invade North Korea
so that the Northerners at least knew
that they were living under a threat
of war from our crowd in the South.
We sent him $110 million worth.
In the five years since VI Day,
the North Koreans have prospered,
divided the big land holdings among
the peasants, increased production,
fostered education, improved t h e
standard of living. While formerly
they got most of their rice from
South Korea, last year they raised
enough rice for their need.
The same old 1000 year squeeze"
(graft) has kept back the South Ko-
reans. The Americans in Korea per-
haps were as joyful to waste Korean
taxes as in Washington they are to
invent ways to waste our taxes. In
fact, for five years the same old |
Oriental Squalor lived with us in
South Korea, while comfort was in
creasing in the North. AS all Koreans
speak the same language, all realized
the advances of the Northerners, the
in our part of Korea.
So at least 45 per cent of the South
erners favored the invasion with the
nope that it would result in a union.
Under Lincoln, many Americans :
lied to save the Union.) :
Dur Most Useful Lesson
Perhaps the most useful lesson
hat we have learned in twenty days
: that there is an immense, perhaps
nexhaustible, reservoir of fatalistic
oldiers in North and Central China.
While we sent into this war several
1ousand 'expendables" Il abhor that :
.rmy world, the cry of 'Asia for the :
states" can and will propel millions :
f expendables into Korea, into our :
rench American war in Indo-China, :
ito Burma, Siam, Malaga. These :
ordes under Attila, the Hun, Jing- =
il, Timur, the Lame (Tamerlane) =
nook the foundation of European :
ulture. Once they were not stopped =
mort Of Tours in France, and CEN =
lries later the Poles stopped them at :
Jenna. We respect the life of the in :
ividual; with the Oriental and the :
Law the individual person is naught :
with the salvation of the :
i've. :
The South Koreans are not fight :
lg. They mostly prefer the presence =
{ their brothers from the North to :
mericans in Korea. -
There is another lesson that we -
ould read between the lines. When =
en-. Macarthur refused the 33 thous- =
Id Chinese National troops from =
Hang and brigade of Japs, that -
cans that Macarthur knew, that once =
the Mainland, close to Communist =
fuge, they might shoot as many =
nericans as North Koreans and =
en- like millions of other Orientals, =
n the enemy. =
We need rubber, chocolate, tin, =
mp, a hundred products of the -
lent. We could sell them millions -
sewing machines, cars, etc. The =
lgapore Harbor last year handled =
f as much tonnage as the Port of =
w York. China wants our cotton. -
ade, Wallace, Key to Peaceful =
Element -
f we withdrew from Korea, ia =
and all Asia, and recognize Chi -
invite China into the United Ma =
rs, the Chinese are not aggressive. -
ey would meet us half way. We -
Id make friends and prosper. AS =
5, we are making enemies and 60 =
broke. But Wallace alone of our =
tic men is big enough to do the =
as Secretary of State. =
here are exactly as many soldiers =