Evening star., 1951-05-05

Senator Stennis-But If we pull
out of Korea, that more or less
? abandons the United Nations and
.. almost causes the collapse of it;
is that your idea? =.
Gen. Macarthur :. It would
mean that the entire Far East would
: conclude that they had been aban-
doned to Communist aggression.
Senator Stennis-.. Your opinion
is that China is already using all
the force and throwing all in on us
!. .that she can now. Would you elab-
crate on that some?
, Gen. MacArthur-I believe that
China is maintaining the maximum
Iof military force of which she is
capable in the progressing of the
Korean campaign.
/ Senator Stennis- Now, you
; don't recommend the landing of
!. any ground troops on the main
land of China and you do recon-
mend though the support Of Chang
and you say that you would give
him the proper support to keep
him on the Chinese mainland. What
did you mean by that? Wouldn't
that involve landing troops there
of our own if he got in trouble?
Gen. MacArthur-I didn't say,
Senator, that we should maintain
the Republic of China'S forces on
the mainland I said that the utili-
zation of those forces should be left
to the decision of the Chinese COM
mander in chief and in his deci-
sions we should give him such sup
port as we were capable of without
the involvement of ground forces
of our own on the Chinese main
Would Help Fight Communism.
/ Senator Stennis-. Il under
stood you to say that you believe
We can defend-you were talking
about the United States-believe
that we can defend every place
from communism-you are meaning
Notwithstanding else is defeat
ism; if we cannot meet and defeat
him, we court our own destruction.
Can We defend every place, world
wide, from communism with mo-
better cooperation than we are
getting now from the other free
nations?
Gen. MacArthur-My concept, of
course, Senator, was that we are
Opposing communism. That we shall
assist wherever we can in that op-
position. did not mean to convey
that the United States should de-
fend every mile of the world that
was threatened by attack or might
be attacked, but that We should
assist those that would resist it to-
the maximum of our capacity with
out destroying ourselves. 80.
Red Conspiracy Seen.
Senator Stennis- Do YOU
think that Russia inspired this at
tack by North Korea on South
Korea? Do you think that it was
primarily inspired by Russia, by
China or just who?
Gen. MacArthur-I couldn't tell
you that, Senator. But 1 am
very definitely convinced that all
three were in the general con-
Splracy. :.
Senator Long You have
indicated that if Russia intends toI
attack us, that in your judgment
one of the main items would bel
their ultimate chance for success
which as you described would be-
based largely on the relativity Of
forces; in other words, that they
do not want to start a war unless
they could win it.
/ Gen. MacArthur-That is correct.
/ Senator Long-And that is why
you do not believe that Russia
would come in in event that we
carry out the recommendations that
you have made.
| Now following that thought, would
it not tend to delay war or to per-
suade Russia that we should not
have war if we arm this Nation and
make it as strong militarily as we
could within the limits of our ability
to maintain such an establishment?
/ Backs Preparedness.
Gen. MacArthur-I am whole
heartedly for preparedness by this
Nation in the present condition of
world affairs :. think the silliest
thing in all warfare is to build up
an armed force that can't win. =.
Senator Lonesome of us had the
impression that it is almost impos-
Isible, unless your men are actually
fighting, to get the American people
to keep an Army, Navy and Air
Force that could beat nation like
Soviet Russia. ..
I Gen. MacArthur-I believe that
this country should throw itself into
the maximum posture of defense
: that our economy can sustain. g.
Importance of Formosa.
4 Senator Long. You stated
that you believed as long as we had
our sea and air power in the area
OF Japan, that you did not think
Russia could successfully invade
Japan with her land army, even
/ though we had only token forces
there to division.
/ How do you believe the Chinese
could make great use of Formosa in
the face OF the sea and air power
that this Nation has?
Gen. MacArthur-He would prob
ably make bases available for the
Russian submarine fleets, and the
Russian air fleets, and you could
put such a concentration of sub
marine power and air power there,
as would take out our air fields in
both the Philippines and in Japan.
You could probably, by the intro
duction of the Russian submarine,
based in Formosa, interdict all of
the supply lines of the Western
Pacific, SO we couldn't get the sup
plies to our air fleets, our ground
forces or our navy.
forces or our Navy.
You have preached our line COM
pletely when you take FormoSa. E.
Believed Chiang's Man Stronger.
Senator Long. You made the
statement yesterday that in your
opinion, at an expense well within
, our means, we could have prevented
i, Chinese Communists from taking
China. If we had prevented that
we would not be fighting them now.
Gen. MacArthur-I believe that