The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-09-15
Lets Have Mediation In
Korea Says McGuffey
BY JOHN McGUFFEY, Roman

Ever since hostilItIes started in Kor
ca, Prime Minister Nehru of India and
the Indian Representatives in the UN
have been proposing mediation in the
Korean issue to stop the fighting there.
1t now seems clear that the struggle
in Korea will be long and costly. The
argument in favor of mediation there
fore seems to be very strong.
In the first place. when we have won
the war, as we undoubtedly can, if we
are willing to pay the price in human
lives and material, this victory will
serve no constructive purpose. When
have fought our way back thru
Korea, the country will lie PROSTATE
and desolate. with 80 million people
crowded into country about the size
of Idaho. What are we going to do
with problem like that? Hadn't we
better keep out?
The longer this war lasts, the great
er becomes the danger of our getting
involved in war with China, and fin |
ally with Russia. Gen. Walter Bedel |
Smith, who was chief of staff under |
Gen. Eisenhower in Europe, and is now
head of the Intelligence Service, has
been quoted as saying that this time
the war will be a world wide civil war.
the worst kind of war and that it
will last for years Do we want to be-
come involved in this kind of a, strug-
gle? Hadn't we better now try to stop
the fighting while there is a chance?
On the home front we are beginning /
to see what some of the costs are GO
ing to be. The House of Representa- {
tives has appropriated nearly II bill {
lions for arms, and at the same time | {
they cut out an appropriation for high ]
ways. 1t is plain there is going to be y
no money for domestic Improvement [
while we are spending all this money $
for the military
COMING s
preSSura =
bill, and an act for uni v
versal military service. In many pIac- v
es, civil rights are being suppressed. Il
Reaction is having a field day In this r
kind of atmosphere labor is bound to p
lose all of its recent gains Also, re- "
Gently, Congress passed a bill authoriz- e
ing price and wage controls. This is II
bound to mean a high degree of regi- $
People will be told what to Z
do, and frozen on the job. II
Initiation is mounting While Con- n
gress appropriated II billions for mill
tary spending, it is only voting to raise -
taxes by IL billions. That means that e
We are spending II billions more than "
we are taking in. This is bound to
'ush prices up more and more. W
In a recent address before the Mon ~
ana Federation of Labor convention, ~
ormer Sen Burton K. Wheeler is re- &c
orted to have urged the delegates to a.
% all in their power to arouse the peo- -
lie to the dangers of a third war. He e
old them further, that unless we curb a. -.
nflation, it will put our nation into "a
and receivership, and that 80
n the end we will have our democracy
eplaced by fascism.
IME TO STOP. LOOK, LISTEN M
These are some of the reasons why AVE-
ne American people should get behind IT,,
demand for mediation in Korea. 1t AZ
time for the American people to stop X
ook and listen. "A
Prime Minister Nehru is certainly
ell qualified to act fairly in mediat- ,rb
X this issue. He is an Asiatic, was
iucated in England, and was a follow
: of Gandhi. He knows the aspira- on
ons of the Asiatics. He is not a Com sta
unist and does not believe in their ma
ethods, altho he is sympathetic with il
any of their aims / think he can be ev.
slied on to deal fairly with the ques- VIII
on. a..
Nehru is devoted to peace and is 7
armed at the drift towards a general NJ
ar caused by the fighting in Korea nm
6 is very anxious to see it stopped. ? {
Mo