Evening star., 1950-10-16
Truman Flying Back
To California TODAY
For Major Speech
Continued From First Page.)

associates want only peace an,
stability for the world.
That thought will underline no
only his San Francisco talk bu
the one he will make to the Unitet
Nations General Assembly in Ney
York on October "a.
Whatever others may speculat
about the Wake Island meeting
the President and his adviser
exude satisfaction over its results
And while Gen. Macarthur
showed less outward happiness a
they shook hands on meeting an,
departing, presidential adviser
said the two world figures "go
along famously."
Gen. Macarthur was cordia
enough. but he took pains to shov
the Wake meeting was strictly Mr.
Truman's undertaking.
He would not discuss the con.
ference with reporters afterwart
or voice any opinion on the Presi.
dent.
Every time he was asked about
details he referred his questionerl
to Mr.. Truman's press secretary
Charles G. Ross.
The General himself, pickee
Wake Island for the meeting wher
the President suggested tha'
World War II hot spot or Hawaii
Mr.. Truman said in state.
ment that he met the genera
to get first hand information
and ideas from him" He added
significantly:
IT did not wish to take him
away from the scene of action ir
Korea any longer than necessary
and, therefore, I came to meet
him at Wake"
Qzvestia, the Soviet govern
ment newspaper in Moscow, de-
clared the Truman-MacArthur
meeting was arranged to work
cut plans to expand American
aggression" in the Far East.
(The newspaper said the
United States Government is
making use of United Nations
resolution on Korea to extend
aggression and thereby raise a
wave Of war pSychosiS. The
paper said In such a psychosis
It will be easier to carry out
measures and preparations for
new world war;
Mr.. Truman attributed brief
ness Of the meeting to very
complete unanimity of views"
Then he went on to say that he
and Gen. Macarthur talked about
"steps necessary to bring peace
and security to the area" with the
view to withdraw United States
armed forces as soon as possible.
There followed an assertion of
belief that dangers to peace in
the Far East obviously from Com
munism) can be surmounted.
In Tokyo, informed sources de-
MED a report in the United States
that Gen. Macarthur had been
given definite instructions by
President Truman to halt Ameri-
can troops about $50 miles north
of the 38th Parallel.
The report was broadcast by
Drew Pearson, Washington col
umnist, who asserted the action
was taken to keep United States
forces away from possible in
volvement with Russian and Chi
nese Communist troops.
The Tokyo sources said the
question of how close American
forces would go to the Manchurian
and Siberian borders had been
decided long ago by military COM
manders here.
The President spent Sunday in
Honolulu behaving like a tourist
with trimmings such as only a
President can have.
Hint on FOrmosa.
On his return to Tokyo at 4:02
pm. yesterday Gen. Macarthur
expanded on the point in the Tru-
man statement about maintaining
peace and security throughout
the Pacific.
Dropping a hint to newsmen
that Formosa was among the
problems discussed with the Presi-
dent, Gen. Macarthur said:
ST greatly enjoyed meeting the
President and conferring with him
and his advisers on problems re-
lated to the Far East-particularly
the Korean, japanese and the
Philippine areas
The Presidents visit to the
Pacific cannot fail to arouse great
enthusiasm throughout the Far
East where it will be interpreted
as symbolizing a firm determi-
nation that peace shall be secured
in the Pacific and that Asia shall
be free, not slave"