Evening star., 1951-06-14

regidor, is warmly greeted by
capitol where Gen. Macarthur
MacArthur's first stop on his
is already hurled against us. Eu-
ropes very survival is dependent
on our gaining a decisive victory
in Asia where Communism has
already thrown down the gage of
battle.
Charges IsolatiOnism.
BY confining their concern so
assiduously to one area and ig-
noring the global nature of the
Communist threat and the need
to stop its predatory advance in
other areas. they have become
the "isolationists" of the present
time. And it is a form of isola-
ton which offers nothing but ulti-
mate destruction. Our first line
of defense for Western Europe is
not the Elba, it is not the Rhine
it is the Yalu. Lose there and
you render useless the effort to
the North Atlantic
Pact or any other plan for regional
defense. What gullibility to think
the free world would fight for
freedom in Europe after refusing
to do so in Asia. I am as in
ltensely interested in saving West
Ier.l Europe as any other threat
Iened area, where the people show
the will and the determination to
mount their own full defensive
power, but ! believe the issue to
be worldwide and not confined
to any special privileged area.
The existing policy of appease-
ment is defended on the ground
that if our military reaction be
conventional and we carry the war
ito the enemy in a manner cal
culated to destroy his capability
of killing our sons and those
whose protection we have assumed
we would incur the wrath of the
Soviet and provoke the start of a
world at war. No argument could
be more fallacious. The surest
way to insure World War III is
to allow the Korean conflict to
continue indecisively and indef-
Could anything be more naive,
more unrealistic, more callous OF
our mounting dead? Could there
be any greater inconsistency than
the argument pursued that we can
defeat Red China in Korea with
out risk of Soviet Intervention but
our attack upon its sustaining
bases across the Yalu would rem
der intervention inevitable? The
defenders of the existing policy
vacuum are the same who sud-
denly and without slightest prep
aration or seeming consideration
of the military and political po-
tentialities, threw us into the con-
f1ict. These are the very mer
who, in the face of mounting peril
deliberately demobilized us at the
peak of our military strength. ano
then at the lowest point of oul
disarmament with no slightest
preparation or word of warning
plunged us into a war which they
now seem afraid to win.
Efforts to Conceal Facts.
No words can excuse or relieve
the enormous disaster to the
Korean people we are pledged to
protect, inherent in a policy which
arbitrarily confines the full i'm.
pact Of all of our air and nava,
bombardment to the Korean Pen
insula. The protection we Offer
these unfortunate people, indeed
may we'll resolve itself into theil
complete obliteration. To what
greater depths might morality
possibly sink? Mighty efforts art
underway to conceal these facts
But the march of events and thu
common sense of the American
people cannot fail ultimately tt
reveal the full truth.
The very fate of the United Ma
Itions rests upon the outcome o
1.-THE struggle to consummate it
commitments to establish undel
its auspices and authority "uni
fled and democratic government
i'm the sovereign state of Korea.
There can be no compromise with
the moral principles which actu
lated the decisions underlying thi
United Nations objective. Their,
can be no short cut to its achieve
Iment and no turning back. II
hold now that anything less thar
its full accomplishment would sat
isfy our political and military re-
!, quirements would be to repudiat,
the great sacrifices selflessly mad,
i. and the host of those who diet
i. that such an objective might b'
realized. Anything short of tha
collective would destroy for al
: time the effectiveness of tn,
$ United Nations as an instrumen
tality for international persua
/ sion.
My correspondence reflects
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