Evening star., 1950-12-31
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area. The Communists had over
run two-thirds of Korea.
'It won't be Dunkerque and it
won't be Corregidor, but it might
be helluva Alamo" 1t. Gen.
Walton H. Walker, commander Of
the, 9th Army said. Gen. Walker,
whose military idol was Gen. Pat
ton, died in a jeep accident in
December.
1--WE are hoping for the, best and
preparing for the worst" Gen.
Bradley said in Washington.
The shock of the reverses, the
revelation of brutality to American
prisoners and the disclosure Of
glaring weaknesses in divisional
strengths and equipment caused
instant repercussions and not a
few recriminations in the United
States.
Draft Calls Stepped Up -
One dispute ragged over effective
ness of the intelligence system.
Admiral Hillenkoetter, later to be
succeeded by Gen. Walter Bedell
Smith as chief of the Central In
telligence Agency, produced intelli-
gence reports to prove to Senators
that his agency had spotted troop
and tank concentrations just north
of the 18th Parallel many weeks
before. His job, ne said, was to
report and the job of the State and
Defense Departments was to draw
inferences.
"Now Is not the time to argue
origins, mistakes, responsibilities
or consequences" Herbert Hoover
cautioned. &-
1t was, if anything, a time for
mobilization and economic belt
Tightening. Draft calls went out
for 20,000-later 50,0O0-men for
September and four National Guard
divisions and groups of reservists
received marching orders.
But for the most part until Sep
tember the home front planners in
the legislative as we'll as admin
iStrative spheres seemed to be
taking their time. Bernard M.
Baruch urged an an-out program
of rationing and price and wage
controls. During August his voice
cried in the wilderness of bureau
cratic confusion, hopping imitation,
Government seizure of the rail-
roads to avert a strike and a spiral
Of wage and price increases.
News on the diplomatic front
also mounted in intensity and
Illustration. The Soviet delegation
that walked out of the Security
Council in January walked in
August l. Mr.. Malik put in a
month as presiding officer and put
on styrnie show-televised and
everything that outdid anything
Alice in Wonderland ever expert
enced.
Such otherwise interesting Incl
dents as the appointment of New
York's Mayor O'Dwyer as Ambassa-
dor to Mexico, the birth of Princess
Anne in England and the disil-
lusioned resignation of Henry A.
Wallace from the Progressive Party
took second billing to such varied
personages as Secretary of the
Navy Matthews, Gen. Macarthur
and Mr.. Malik.
The Navy Secretary ran into a
White House squall after a Boston
speech in which he suggested a
preventive war" against Russia.
Gen. Macarthur encountered a
White House blackout when ordered
by the President to withdraw a
message scheduled for veterans
convention in Chicago. His retreat
to a previously unprepared posi-
ton wasn't rapid enough to pre-
vent disclosure of his recommended
. ton that Formosa be built up
instead of neutralized.
Gen. Macarthur also paid a
surprise call on Chang Kai-shek
on Formosa. He justified it in view
of his dual role as U. N. and United
States commander in the Pacific.
Too quickly to be coincidental, the
White House dispatched w. Averell
Hartman, newly named presiden-
tial assistant on foreign affairs, to
Tokyo to "brief" the general on
Far Eastern political affairs"
Among others who went to the
(see RED CHINA'S MOVE. Page C-5J