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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
THIS is LIMITED WAR"

1t is interesting to look through the newspapers
published the and get their opinion regarding
the Korean warfare One of the best to come to The
Empires deck is the Cincinnati Enquirer and it says
that having made the Hateful decision to intervene in
Korea the American Government has no choice now
extend its efforts in order to carry out the task
undertaken. In pursuit of this policy, President
Truman has authorized the landing of American
ground forces, and also the. bombardment OF North
Korean bases about the 38th Parallel '5
Like the original decision to intervene, these are
SOLDERING steps which lead into struggle of un-
known dimensions and unknown duration They con-
firm the seriousness of the enterprise to which we
now are irrevocably committed.
But they do not entail any moral or legal
issue Neither the landing of combat ground forces
nor the extension of air bombing northward alters
objectives-the restoration of the Korean Republic
Neither of those steps goes beyond the intervention
authorized by the United Nations in its two basic
policy decisions
1t does not help much, in appraising the nature
of this conflict to say with Truman that this is
policing job not war, to say that the enemy
are bandits not soldiers When we employ BIS
bombers and smaller combat aircraft in large-scale
raids when we land regiments of infantrymen we are
conducting war. 1t is war even though the enemy
happens to be a political regime that neither the
United States nor the United Nations recognizes as
legitimate. A ANss2 ssg MSfg q 81 Az
X I'VE are then fighting war fut II issa limited
war Thus far any rats it siS aswat limited 70 one
quite small area It is limited ALSO hlobjective for
do not seek to annihiliae North or
Our purpose should reach no farRer Than TO- restore
the conditions existing before the unwarranted attack
of last Sunday. ~ gf,L 4sa.st e.l
1t would be wise the American Government
to define with the utmost clarity just what its OBJ
iectives are so that the world may know we are
not engaged in the mperalistc adventure that Mos
COW propagandsts charge We going to lose friends
throughout Asia if we do take rigorous pains to
define the scope and the aims of the limited
which we are embarked
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WHOSE FAULT?

AS footnote to the presumed failure of U. S.
Intelligence to tip off the Korean invasion there is
a dispatch from Washington indicating that in
vestigation of the espionage agencies may be ordered
This means that tie Central Intelligence Agency the
top one, may take the rap.
The story Is based in the presumption that the
CHA was in possession of bits Of information wmch,
if assembled and appraised would have given warn
ing of the impending attack Another Interpretation
of the failure4and the more likely one-is that 1t
occurred in the field That our agents in North Korea
if any, either caught off base or could not get
their information through in time. Else, why should
General Bradley and the Secretary of Defense who
had just returned from General MacArthurs mead
quarters in Tokyo, been completely taken by sur
prise few hours after their return to Washington?
The failure of Intelligence in the Korean
incident has been pretty fairly established though
the blame for it may never be. 1t looks as though
the CHA has inherited many of the prejudices held
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
U. S. Reaches Peak

AS you know, am considered
quite a critical newspaperman. ]
do not hesitate to point out the
faults of our government and our
country. But, despite all these
faults, I very deeply feel that ,our
country has just about reached the
peak of idealism and unselfishness
and power for good ever before seen
in the world.
We have reached it, but we can
lose it.
Great empires have come anc
gone in the past. They have fallen
because they got too soft or toe
Grass or too powerful: because they
used their power for materialistic
conquest and based it on armed
might They put selfishness ahead
of idealism and they fell.
We can do that, too In fact
some of us were beginning to think
more about our stomachs, our div
idends, wages and prices, how
many automobiles we had or ou,
neighbors had-than we did about
the problem of peace.
And it was not entirely surpris-
ing that Lieut.. Donald S. Sirman
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Daily Lessons in English ". Z T. i sokDoN

WORDS They holfdayed at the
beach, adjective but not Say
at the beach, dressed in holiday
ecive) attire"
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irst I n RIGHT,
Valley Veil Ca
SYNONYMS: Rightu legal, lawful just equitable.
WORD STUDY: yours" Let us
vocabulary Todys word
uprighness "A OF IN
teg4ty will schemes
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
free Mans Burden

I think what you boys who are
tust approaching military age must
remember is that the Korean de-
,ision had to come sooner or later.
A nation cannot live alongside an
other nation which constantly
threatens war. And a free world
cannot exist with one nation bully
ing, arming, threatening to invade
any people who do not bow to
5heir political creed.
In a way, what we-especlally
you-are assuming is the free mans
burden-the obligation of free men
to keep the world free.
There was a time when we could
20 our own way in this country,
protected by two oceans, and not
worry about the rest of the world.
But that day-thanks to the atom
bomb. and long-range airplanes-
is over; SO what happens in one
part of the world, like contagious
disease, affects us here.
That is particularly true of free
dom.
This has got to be free world.
And l don't think one free nation
can live as an island surrounded
by nonfree, police-state nations,
all armed to the teeth.
So, since this clash of free ma
tons and the poliee-state nations
was unacceptable, itsis better to get
it over with and in such way
that we can build new inter-
national police force, unhampered
by vetoes, which will guarantee
lasting peace
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-20
Stopping War Seeds

Maybe you remember my telling
you about some of the international
conferences I have covered as a
newspaperman where 1 could liter
ally see the seeds of war planted
see them with my own eyes, and
watch them grow and incubate,
with the rest of the world watch
ing, too, but powerless to stop the
impending crisis.
Well, this time we have not been
powerless. We saw the impending
crisis and we moved to avert it.
l think it's important for you
and the other boys approaching
military age to remember this; also
to remember that no country in
the world today has our unselfish-
ness, our courage, our idealism.
And we've got to keep it that way.
So this Korean war, distant as
it is, tough as it is, unwelcome as
it is, may be the great turning
point in the year 1950-Uidway
through the century-when we can
establish a world police force and
world authority to put down all
wars in the future
Those are some of the great
things which the boys of your gen.
Grafton can look forward to. You
are lot smarter than my gen
Grafton, and you can succeed where
we failed.
Love from,
The Old Man
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PORTLAND WOMAN CONTACTS
FRIEND THROUGH CHAMBER

Vella Krumb of Portland, Ore,
is enjoying a visit here with Mrs.
w. J. Walker, 512 Sixth Street,
after contracting her through the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
She had not seen Mrs. Walker
in 80 years, and decided to look
her up while visiting in Fairbanks.
She arrived in Juneau Friday after
obtaining Mrs. Walkers address
through the local chamber, and
has been talking over old times
with her while seeing this par
of Southeast Alaska for the first
time.
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NlUUCKV EItQULl e ROBERTA LEE

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of Philadelphia, when captured in
Korea, told Communist newsnnen
that he enlisted in the Air Force
because he got paid and would
ike to build a cottage in Philadel-
phia"
So perhaps some of us needed
Korea We needed it to keep us
from getting too soft, too selfish,
too materialistic. But, above all, we
needed it to set an example OF
world unity agaiaet4an. q ggressors
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Useless War?

SoNiNoo
However. the bows 10 your gener-
alton are lot more sophisticated
than we. And the country has
now seen two great wars in quick
succession, followed by cold wal
which has broken out in a bloody,
disastrous defeat in Korea. So all
the glarnor, the novelty, the ex-
element have worn off, and in a
way I don't particularly blame the
American lieutenant in Korea wno
said: 81 never saw such a useless
damned war in all my life"
I can well understand how this
war, fought 5000 miles away in a
strange land. in the defense .ot
strange people, and against trem-
endous odds, can be considered
useless. Yet, l don't think I'm a
Pollyanna when l say that the
year 1850 may go down in history
just because of the Korean war
because it may stop war in the
future and lead to a new era OF
world unity and peace. ~
There are some people abroad
who call us Uncle Sap" Anu
there are some people here at
home, like the Chicago Tribune
crowd, who call us that, too; say
we are impractical fools to be CIV
ing our money, our food, our steel
and now our life blood away to
other people.
But there was a man named
Jesus Christ who, in effect, was
also called Uncle Sap. He, too
was branded an impractical Wis
ionary; yet his teachings have
formed a goal toward which man
kind has been struggling ever since
And I don't think I'm too optimis-
tic when I say that our country
with the Marshall plan and all the
other help we have given our neigh
bors, may have come nearer q
practical fulfillment of the sermon
on the mount, by one nation among
other nations, than at any time
since Christ taught that great doc
trine 1000 years ago.
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HOSPITAL NOTES

Robert Reid of Petersburg, MRS.
Carl Carlson of Douglas, Mrs. Flor
,noe Yadao, and Donna Lucas were
zidlhitted to ST.. Ann's Hospital yss-
serday FF'F
Chris Erickson. zerine Kliprert'
Nils Ludvickson,s and Mrs. Richard
.tockdale and her infant son were
dismissed III
Mamie Williams of Angoon and
Cynthia Hanlon of Hoonah were
admitted to the Government Hos
pital.s i ,.s
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Robert P. Skinner sd
William H. Standby
ntolo, Wy NIyoJIo11 >,


These are not ignorant persons.
In l947, few, men in the State
Department had had the experience
of William C. Bullitt, Josephus
Daniels, James w. Gerard or Ad-
miral William H. STANDBY. Bullitt
and Standby had served in Russia.
Gerard had been offered the Rus
sian post by President Roosevelt,
to whom Gerard wrote:
"As a hard-boiled realist l adj
vocated the recognition of the Sow
lets but as publicly for the last
few years 1 have been calling them
thieves and murderers I do, not
think that can do you any good
in that country"
Yet, not the slightest attention
was paid to these experienced men.
In fact, in 1947, there, was hardly
a man of Far Eastern experience
I'M the State Department. the
corps, of experts, trained over many
years, were out of the department.
or widely scattered, For instance,
| the leading. American authority on
Japan and Korea, Eugene Dooman,
was let out of the department.,
Our greatest authority on the en-
tire Far East, Dr. Stanley Horn
beck, had been excluded from the
Far Eastern situation The lis;
is long of men, trained at great
expense to serve in the Far East,
who found themselves in such
places as Albania and Australia.
Instead, such men as Dean Ache
son, Philip Jessup, Alger Hiss were
making policy, largely under the
inspiration of appeasing Soviet
Russia and therefore appeasing the
| Chinese Communists. Certainly,
Mr.. Truman could not have made
our China policy or our Japanese
or Korean policies, as. he knows
| nothing about those countries
Whoever. advised him betrayed hih
and betrayed America, and that fact
blew up in their faces when Soviet
Russia sent a Korean Communist
army into South Korea.
1t would seem that while or
boys are dying in Korea, we have
right to ask questions about how
the Korean episode came about
For that episode was made in the
United States. l'
| Look at the map! Note how
Korea lies in relationship to Man
churia, Note how to the north are
] the maritime provinces Of Siberia
| (Primorsk) If Manchuria were in
| Chinese hands, with a Chinese Ma
tionalist army amply provisioned
| guarding the boundaries, do you
suppose that Soviet Russia could
have so quickly organized i Soviet
Korean Army north of the 38tn
! Parallel?
| LII biilo map, hAiNAS 40
/; little place calleil HupchIn. Fol
I, years, while the Japanese owned
Korea, revolurIons ry forces exis'eo
in Hunchun, many of them under
! Russia influence. When the story
of this Korean episode is told
| Hunchun will be shown to have
been an important base Hunchur
lis in Manchuria, which is, by the
Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam agree
ments, controlled by Russia. We
did it that although Russia
was in the Far Eastern war less
than a week.
That is why we need to know
who organized and projected the
Far Eastern policy. Somebody cid
it. Let us have the name of the
genius.
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by the military against the former OSS of which it
is sort of outgrowth. In any event we doubt
that the findings of any investigation of the CHA
or any similar agency will be made public
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Weather al
Alaska Points

Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 430
am. 10th Meridian Time, end
released by the Weather Bureau
ara &C follows.
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I H ESE d A Y S
- B Y - t'lt7
GEORGE E. SOKCLSKY
HOW DID 1T HAPPEN?

More and more, the people are
asking: ! How could it have hap
pened? No matter what the out
come of the Korean affair, it is
now obvious beyond possible doubi
sthat , we were caught 81 unaware
Some of us may boast that We
have been giving warning for years
and years, but that does not eX-
plain why no heed was taken OF
obvious facts and equally obvious
warnings. The most discouraglng
fact in the Korean situation is
that some of us have been warm
ing of this danger since 1945 but
few we're willing to listen, 81 y
For instance. Aon November "a
l947, II former Ambassadors of the
United States jointly telegfaphed
to the chairman of the committee
on foreign relations of the United
States Senate. In 1947, as now
that office was held by Tom Con-
nally of Texas. The message from
the former Ambassadors read:
I'VE the undersigned former Am
bassadors of the United States be-
lieving that the vital interests OF
our country would be bravely men,
aced if China Should fall under the
domination of the Soviet Unior
urge you most strongly to give
essential military equipment anc
economic and financial aid to the
Chinese government.
F.. Lairmot Belin
William C. Bullitt
William M. Collier
JosephuS Daniels
Wesley Frost = - ~
James W. Gerard s:c t25 q
Boaz Long ola az f 8a
Lithgow Osborne
William Phillips
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drilling, hoping the news was not
true. .4.a.sr
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Weather: High. So; low, So; misting.n q
Evening star., 1950-03-12

water. Billy Gunton, his only
son, was one of our number. He
grew to manhood and was thrown
headlong from his horse one day
and was picked up with his neck
broken. His father. became very
wealthy, and was the president
of the Bank of Washington"
DR.. Gunton resided at the
northwest corner of Ninth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, and
here was also his drug store, or
apothecary, as it was once called.
The doctor was one of the early
comers to Washington, having ar
rived here october 18, 1907, after
leaving his home in Norfolk, Eng
gland. In giving his impressions
of the city at that time, he says:
Near the corner of Seventh
street and the avenue were one
or two buildings, in one of which
a Mr.. Samuel Harrison Smith
had established a newspaper.
Nearby was little building called
the Mash Market which has
since been replaced by the splen-
did structure of the center market
of this day.
MANY parts Of Pennsylvania
avenue touched the waters edge.
and the road was corduroy Logs
were piled to fill up the mud holes
and miry places along the route.
Once crossing the avenue at
Seventh street our young druggist
lost shoe, which sank into the
ooze and was with some difficulty
recovered"