Evening star., 1951-06-02

Fleet saying that the 9Th Army
had quit chasing the Chinese
Communists in North Korea COM
piled with our political policy?"
II think that's statement Of
the military situation" Mr.
Acheson replied. HE IS just de-
scribing what has happened in
Chis particular tactical advance.
The Secretary returned to the
Capitol to renew his fighting de-
fense of the Administrations Far
Eastern policy after asserting yes
terday that United Nations forces
had scored a powerful victory
over Communism in Korea.
Red imperialist aims throughout
all Asia have been upset, he said,
and the Kremlin's plan to shake
the free world with a quick and
easy conquest in Korea and para
lyze the defense of Europe has
"evaporated."
In his second round before the
committee, Mr.. Acheson faced a
critical Republican examination
on the amount of support that
should be given Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek's Nationalist
forces on Formosa.
Strategy Conference Held.
Senator Cain. Republican, of
Washington said he and other
Republican members of the COM
Emittee agreed at a strategy con-
ference last night to inquire into
Mr.. Acheson's ideas on this point,
The Senator noted that Assistant
Secretary of State Dean Rusk said
in a recent speech that the Ma
Itionalists have the support of a
majority of the Chinese people.
Our Government" Senator
Cain added. frequently has acted
as If it did not believe this and
we want to find out what Ache
son thinks about it,"
In the opening round of Mr.
Acheson's testimony yesterday
the joint committee overrode his
and the State Departments OBJ
lection and voted, IS to 9, to re-
lease a confidential 1949 depart
Iment document dealing with For
mosa. The document said For
mosa had mo special military
significance" and its loss to Red
China was expected.
Mr.. Acheson contended the dis
closure of what the document said
would provide Russia with propa-
ganda material that would hurt
the Voice of America program
abroad.
Acheson Defends Policy.
Gen. Macarthur and top-rank-
ing military leaders have testified
that the Chinese Nationalist
stronghold of Formosa has great
strategic value to the defense OF
the United States and that it
must not fall to Communist
China. Mr.. Acheson insisted the
memorandum was sent informa-
tion officers only to minimize the
damage to American prestige by
the expected fall of FormoSa, and
he added that he agreed that the
island did have strategic i'm
portance and that American dip
lomatic policy always had been to
keep it out of Red hands.
The document itself, he said
actually grew out of a suggestion
by 1t. Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer
then assistant chief of staff OF
the Army. who had become con-
cerned about the possibility OF
Formosa's fall. Gen. Wedemeyer
author of report on Far Eastern
policy, from which the joint COM
mittee also took the secret wraps
will be the next witness to testify
Would Deter War.
Mr.. Acheson strongly defended
the administrations Far Eastern
policies and said:
l.. The United States has made
no effort yet to get the U. N. allies
to impose a Naval blockade against
Red China.
2. This country will fight a
world war to defend itself, "if that
necessity is forced upon us, but we
seek to deter war if We can He
called that the core of the Tru-
man Administration foreign policy.
8. The State Department vetoed
Ia 1949 Defense Department effort
to, send a military mission to aid
the Chinese Nationalists on For
Imosa. President Truman backed
the State Department.
4. mo one can predict when the
fighting Tin Korea) will stop and
when the aggression will end" But
he expressed the opinion ''that the
aggression can best be brought to
an end with a minimum risk and
la minimum loss by continuing the
Furnishing defeat of the Chinese
in Korea"
S. The proposal to enlarge the
Korean war to bring it to a
speedier conclusion. as advanced
by Gen. Macarthur, undertakes
ca large risk of general war with
China, risk of war with the Soviet
Union and a demonstrable weaken
ing of our collective security sys-
tenn" The effectiveness of the
Macarthur plan in bringing the
Korean conflict to an early end,
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