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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-09-14
Report Several Jewish Groups "coId
Shoulder" Begin Book on Israel War

NEW YORK CITY - (AJP) -
A quiet acknowledgements effort
is being made among some of the
top Jewish groups in this country
to limit the circulation of the
highly controversial book by
Menachem Begin, former Com
mander of the Irgun Zvai Leumi
underground army in Palestine,
which is scheduled for publica-
ton here next month.
The effort to restrain wide
spread circulation of the Irgun
leaders book, which is called ''The
Revolt: Story of the Irgun," has
taken a negative form, with or
CARNATIONS and a leading Anglo
Jewish syndicate hesitating to
help promote the book on the
grounds that it is too controver-
sial' and 'too hot>t handle"
The publicity department of the
Henry Schuman, Inc, Publishers,
which is publishing the Begin
book on October 9th, declined to
name the Jewish organizations
and the syndicate which refused
to handle promotion literature on
1.-THE Revolt" because, they said,
1--WE do not wish to embarrass
either the organizations or the
press syndicate with whom we
have long tradition of friendship
and cooperation"
Much of the controversy, it was
learned, will center about charges
''The Revolt" makes and report
edly documents against breaches
of trust with the Irgun on the part
of David Ben-Gurion, IsraePs
premier, Moshe Sneh, former
head of the Haganah, and other
leading Israel and Jewish Agency
officials. Begins presentation of
the Irgun case in such issues as
the blowing up of the Altalena
arms ship off Tel Aviv, the attack
on the DER YasSin Arab village,
the defense of Jerusalem, the
King David Hotel explosion,
among others, is also expected to
touch off a furry of controversy
in Jewish quarters.
The official Israel Government
and Jewish Agency leadership in
this country is also reported to
have reacted with considerable
aloofness to the Begin book.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-09-14
Non-GoVernmentoI
Bodies Want Genocide
Pact Ratified

JAKARTA, Indonesia (JTA) =
Unless a large number of nations
ratify the United Nations Conven-
ton Against Genocide the docu-
ment will be no more than a
'pious declaration on the part of
the countries concerned in draft
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-09-14

SINGS 100 HIGHER FOR ISRAEL Sophie Tucker first lady Of song
bn $4,000 Israel bond Mcdonald first US Ambas
sado to israel while presents with the first his
book Israeli Funds provided through the State OF
Israel Bond drive indispensable expansion Of raes
and the absorption thousands immigrants
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-09-14

represented the Executive Coun'
Gil of Australian Jewry.
Evening star., 1951-10-21

as a weak or a strong Execu-
tive and noting the high
points of his achievement or
failure, as the case may be.
He describes the main issues
of the day, but never neglects
the little touches indicative
of the political climate of the
timc-the forgotten hand
shake and other such decisive
trivia. He takes the reader
to each convention and re-
creates the feverish behind
the activity of the
candidates hackers. 1t wasn't
all smoke filled rooms" On
the eve of his second nomi-
nation, when his managers
bargained recklessly, Lincoln
wired from Springfield: Il
authorize no bargains. and
will be bound by none"
THE Presidency" is illus
trated with over 1000 pic
lures, from a tle-known
woodcut showing Washington
being notified of his election
to the famous photograph
of Harry Truman jubilantly
brandishing the Chicago Trib-
une with the headline.
Dewey Defeats Truman,
They will be at it again all
too soon. In fact, they never
stop. But for all the ma
neuvcring and crushing re-
SponSibilitieS entailed, Mr..
Lorant makes it plain why
so many men would rather
be President than be right.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-10-18

land for treatment a few days ago
and the child is now at home here,
much improved in health.
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, Of Akron,
Ohio, were guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Bethel at their home here last
week.
Max Orendorf and son. of Mt Lake
Park. passed through this village last
Monday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Bethel an
nounce the birth of a daughter at
their home here last Sunday night.
Joe Bucket has had new steps
erected at the entrance to his store,
a needed improvement.
Mrs. Charles Russell, Marie Russell
and Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Russell and
children, of Pittsburgh Pa. spent
the Weekend here.
Mrs. William Raley and daughter.
Donna Lee, Of Rawley, Md, and Mrs.
Harry Valdivia, Of Washington, d.
c., were guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jonas
Beachy over the weekend.
Mrs. Jonas Beachy spent last
Wednesday and Thursday attending
state Homemakers' board meeting
at College Park.
Rev. and Mrs. David Straesser, of
New Jersey, are spending this week.
with Mrs. Straesser's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred NJ Bittinger, at their
home here.
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A special missionary service was
held by the children of the local
Lutheran congregation last Sunday
evening. The special feature Of the
service was an address by Miss Lilith
Schwab, a returned missionary from
India. Miss Schwab, a visiting mis-
sionary, was entertained at the
Lutheran parsonage last Sunday and
Monday by Rev. and Mrs. Rune.
Charles H. Bucket, OF Cumberland,
spent part of last week in this COM
munity hunting gray squirrels and
visiting relatives.
William Sneed, of Hillsboro, Va,
was brief caller in this village one
day last week.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. r.
vim Yoder was taken to the Garrett
County Memorial hospital in Oak
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Bittinger-1O a. M, Sunday School.
II a. m, worship. Luther League, 500
p. m.
Meadow Mountain-10:3O a. M,
Sunday School.
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meet in the Eglon school building on
Friday, October 26, at 7:45 o'clock
p. m. There will be a business session
and a program.
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CHURCH OF 81. PETER TIE
AHOSFT T.

Sunday Masses s and 10 a. NJ
Confessions, Saturday ) to 6. 1880
to 500 p. M, and Sunday morning
before masses.
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Farm Unit To Meet

The Union district unit of the
Preston County farm bureau viii
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OUR FATHERS HOUSE

NTTlITlUUT, Nh.
REV. joins j. ArWELL. Rector
$500 a. m, Holy Communion, 2nd
Sunday.
10 a. M. Church School, each Sun
day.
300 p. M, Evening Prayer, each
Sunday.
st. Johns Chapel
neer Park. Nd.
$500 a. M. Holy Communion, LIST
Sunday.
1915 p. m, Church School. each
Sunday.
$50 p. M, Young Peoples Fellow
ship. l,t, 3rd, 5th Sundays
7:}0 p. m, Evening Prayer, 1st,
2nd, 9Th Sundays.
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ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH

DONALD n. GALLON. Pastor
9:30 a. m, Church lending library
at the parsonage.
9:45 a. M. Sunday School.
II a. M. Worship service with ser
mon by the pastor. Congregational
meeting following.
Nursery for small children in the
parsonage.
Wednesday, Catechetical class at
the church; Ladies' sewing at the
parsonage, $500 p. m.
Friday Choir rehearsal, p. m.
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dag Oct Is, 500 p. NJ, at Grace
Church, Friendsville.
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Ferndale Baptist Church
10 a. m, Bible School.

BITINGER LUTHERAN PARISH
CURT II. ri ME-, Pastor
joining a. H., Sunday
School s p. M, Service. Festival pro-
gram by Children Of the Church. Mis-
sion film viii be shown.
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MAPLE GROVE CHURCH OF THE
BRETHREN

RICHARD GkUMBLlNG. Pastor
10 a. M, Sunday School.
II a m, Worship service.
Wednesday, 1880 p. M, Prayer meet
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MT. lake BAPTIST CHURCH

EEV. ". c. ROGERS, Pastor
10 a. m, Bible School.
i a. m, Preaching service.
$50 p. M, Training Union.
Tuesday, 1870 p. m, Prayer meet
Evening star., 1951-05-04

rean group, and our forces had
practically destroyed them. We
would have completely destroyed
them, if the Chinese had not in
tervened.
Limited by Size of Force.
We were limited. as say, by
the two conditions: the size of the
force I had; and the mission that
was given me.
My mission was to clear out all
North Korea, to unity it and to
liberalize it.
The number of troops had was
limited, and those conditions in
dicated the disposition of the
troops I had.
AS a matter of fact, the dispo-
sltior1 of those troops, in my opin-
ion, could not have been improved
upon had I known the Chinese
were going to attack.
The difficulty that arose was not
the disposition of the troops, but
the overwhelming number of the
enemy forces, and the extraordi-
nary limitations that were placed
upon me in the use of my air.
Had I been permitted to use
my air, when those Chinese forces
came in there, I haven't the faint
est doubt we would have thrown
them back.
That opinion is shared not only
by every air officer have COM
mented to, but by Gen. Strate-
meyer and Gen. ODonnell, who
had my bombers, and everybody
|else-but we were not permitted
to use our air against those troops;
thousands and hundreds of thou
sands of troops were permitted to
concentrate on the Yalu at that
time, only two nights march down
to the front lines.
Probably the great mass of those
Chinese troops moved down after
we had started our reconnaissance
in force, north.
Bombing Along Yalu.
Senator RusSell-Of course, I do
not know anything about the mill
tary part of it, but it does not
seem to me that we would have
bombed them before they came in.
That is the thing I did not under
stand about it.
Gen. MacArthur-If I had been
permitted to bomb them before
they crossed the Yalu, Senator,
they would never have crossed.
Their logistical supply would have
been cut off so rapidly that they
would not have been able to ad-
Evening star., 1951-05-04

believe that is the American way
And if you question is intended
to mean that I would be subser-
Went to and not register within
the proper processes my opinions
I would refute it at once.
People Entitled to Facts.
Otherwise, you do not get what
lis the foundation of the very lib
erty that we breathe. that the
people are entitled to have the
facts. that the judgment of the
Government itself is subject tc
their opinion and to their control;
and in order to exercise that, they
are entitled to the truth, the whole
truth. and nothing but the truth
Senator.
Senator McMahon-Now. let's
assume. general, that one of your
subordinate generals in the theater
of your command had felt as you
feel. He. too. is military man
and he, too, is subordinate to his
higher command.
Do I take it that you would
defend the right of brigadier
general on your staff to give his
opinions as to the policy that was
proceeding or that was being pro-
ceeded with by the Government
of the United States?
Gen. MacArthur-I wouldn't
have a brigadier general or any
one else on my staff that didn't
freely and frankly give me his
opinions in contradiction to my
own. The very value of a sub
ordinate is the freedom with which
he expresses his initiative.
Evening star., 1951-05-04

with, I still would implement II
to the very best of my ability.
Senator Northumberland
there are some fundamental basic
differences between the Govern.
ment and yourself as to the wis
dom Of the best course to pursue
in the East; that is true?
Gen. MacArthur-Naturally.
Senator Mcmahon DO you
consider, general, that it comes
within the province of a theate,
commander to register publicly
with persons in political life, OF
out of it for that matter, hi;
differences of opinion while hf
lis still in active charge of the
theater?
Gen. MacArthur-I believe the
theater commander has the re
sponSibility of registering his
views as he might see fit, if they
are honest views and not in con-
Itradiction to any implementing
ldirectives that he may have re-
ceived.
I do not believe the implications
Iof your question, that any seq
Iment of American society shall be
so gagged that the truth and the
full truth shall not be brought
out.
I believe it is in the interest, the
public interest, that diverse opin-
ions on any controversial issue
shall be fully aired.
I understand completely that
the totalitarian and the Soviet
method is entirely in contradiction
to that, that they do muzzle cer-
tain segments of society. I do not
Evening star., 1951-05-04

vance with any degree of force or
strength against the 9th Army.
| Senator RUSSELL see. OF
course, I can see the handicap you
were under in not bombing them
before they crossed; but it would
have been a rather dangerous
thing to bomb them before they
crossed.
Gen. MacArthur-AS soon as we
realized that the Chinese were
moving across the Yalu in force
as national-as national entities,
I ordered the bridges across the
Yalu bombed from the Korean side,
half f-way to the stream. That Or
der was countermanded from
Washington, and it was only when
I protested violently that I was
allowed to continue my original
directive.
Senator Russell-Well, are the
forces in Korea at the present time
permitted to bomb half of the
bridge from the center of the river
over to North Korea?
Gen. MacArthur-When left
they were, yes, sir; and I was bomb
ing them. -. The original order,
Gen. Whitney just recalled to me.
directed me to confine the bomb
ling along the Yalu River to five
miles within North Korea, from
the Yalu border. From the border
of North Korea, five miles inland,
II was not permitted to bomb.
That was changed. as I say, when,
on my recommendation
Was Calculated Risk.
Senator Russell-Did I under
stand you correctly, General.
when you said you, had you
known the Red Chinese were COM
ing in in great force, that you
would have had exactly the same
disposition of troops that you did
have?
| Gen. MacArthur-I don't see
how I could have done anything
else, Senator.
You understand, it was a calcu-
lated risk from the day We en-
tered in Korea on June 9th: the
calculated risk was whether China
or the Soviet would intervene.
In the face of that risk, which 7
had nothing to do with, you un-
derstand, was ordered with these
forces had to clear North Korea.
I understood the dangers every
day as nobody else, perhaps, un-
derstood them, but / had my di-
receives, and I was implementing,
to the best of my ability: this was
a calculated risk. Every step that
was taken, every tactical move
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Partial Text Of MacArthurs Testimony to Senate Committee

versals in North Korea. last Sep
tember?
Gen. MacArthur-We ha,
knowledge that the Chinese Com
munists had collected large force
along the Yalu River. My owl
reconnaissance, you understand
was limited entirely to Korea; bu
the general information which
was available, from China ant
other places, indicated large &C
cumulations of troops.
The Red Chinese, at that time
were putting out. almost daily
statements that they were no
intervening. that these were vol
unteerS only.
About the middle. of SepGembe,
our Secretary of State announced
that he thought there was littl'
chance, and no logic, In Chimes,
intervention.
In November, our Central Intel.
ligence Agency here had said tha
they felt there was little chance
of any major intervention on the
part of the Chinese forces.
North Koreans Stiffening.
Now, we ourselves on the from
realized that the North Korean
forces were being stiffened, ant
our intelligence. made just befor,
Gen. Walker launched his attacks
indicated they thought from 40,
900 to $4,000 men might be dowr
there.
Now. you must understand tina
the intelligence that a nation il
going to launch war, is not al
intelligence that is available to
commander, limited to a small
area of combat.
That intelligence should have
been given to me.
The agencies that the control.
ing powers had, which received re.
ports from all over the world, from
all the nations of the world, which
had 1.-THE British secret service
had every secret service of any OF
the allies at his disposal, which
were not at mlne-gave a much
wider and a much broader bash
upon which to make those con.
cepts.
Senator Russell-So, the dis
position of the forces in the field
then. were based, upon the as
sumption that there would be no
intervention by a considerable
number of Chinese?
Gen. MacArthur-The dispo-
sition of the forces was made
upon the basis of the enemy that
existed, and the orders that / had
to defeat them.
That enemy was the North Ko-
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LlTely recall, OeudLOT, except The
question of the hot pursuit"
know that the air wished from
the very beginning to pursue an
attacking enemy plane to the
death, whether it was over the
border line or not.
The directives forbade that
The question of the blockade OF
China, the Chinese coasts, as far
as I can recall. when the war was
confined to the North Koreans,
hadn't agitated our headquarters
any way.
After Chinese Intervened.
Senator Russell-Do you recall
at what period during the oper-
ations that you first formally
suggested to the defense estab-
lishment that you be permitted to
carry on air operations over Man
churia or to blockade the China
coast?
Gen. MacArthur-It was after
the Chinese Intervention, and it
was definitely established that
they were making war on our
forces in Korea.
There were various recommen-
dations put in Immediately there
Iafter-after it was determined
that China was warning against
us, Red China, I put in the appli-
cation for the use of-that the
wraps be taken off the forces in
Formosa. There were other rec
concentrations that went in at
various times, but I would not
I could not at this Stage-I will
say that there were a number of
visits by the Army Chief of Staff
Gen. Collins, at which those
points were discussed in detail,
and our position was set forth.
However, the decisions were made
in Washington, and were COM
piled with completely and alb
solutely.
Senator Russell-So after the
Chinese Communists came in and
Immediately after it was evident
that they were in large numbers
attacking our forces, you did rec
ommend that the naval blockade
be enforced and that what you
have very graphically described
as a sanctuary in Manchuria be
subject to air attack, and that the
Chinese Nationalist troops be en-
ployed?
Gen. MacArthur-I very def
nitely recommended that the Chi
nese Nationalist troops be en-
ployed. Whether there was any
definite written form in the other
things. I do not recall.
In my discussions with Gen.
Collins pointed out how extraor-
dinarily necessary it was to lift
those inhibitions.
Senator Russell-But you did
not formally request that through
channels, that those interdictions
be removed?
Gen. MacArthur-The requests
were made. of course, to the Army
Chief of Staff, Gen. Collins, in the
references. You understand that
from the beginning these inhibi-
tions were listed, Senator, and
they were never lifted, and when
Gen. Collins came out on these
various things, I pointed out the
grave effects Of not lifting them.
Senator Russell-Yes, I under
stood that. OF course, that is the
point; the very vital question
about this whole tragic contro-
Iversy is the employment of the
Nationalist troops, the position Of
a naval blockade and the bombing
of the bases and lines of supply
and communications of the Com
munist Chinese.
Now every member of the COM
mittee wishes to develo-, just how
the controversy arose, whether 1t
was through a formal request OF
Evening star., 1951-05-04
,PortioI Text of Yesterdays Testimony

FOLLOWING is partial tert of
yesterdays Macarthur teSti-
mony as it appeared in yeSter-
days late editions OF The Star:
Senator Russell-General, will
you clarity for the benefit of the
committee your position as COM
mander in chief of the United
Nations there as well as of the
United States forces? When you
submitted your request for troops,
did you submit it to the Govern
ment of the United States or did
you submit it to the United Ma
tions or both?
| Gen. MacArthur-Senator, my
connection with the United Ma
tions was largely nominal. There
weer provisions made that the
entire control of my command and
everything I did came from our
own Chiefs of Staff. and my chan
mel of communication was defined
as the Army Chief of Staff.
Even the reports which were
normally made by me to the
United Nations were subject to
censorship by our State and De-
fense Departments. I had no di-
rect connection with the United
Nations whatsoever.
The controls over me were ex-
actly the same as though the
forces under me were all Ameri-
can. All of my communications
were to the American high COM
mand here.
Senator Russell-Were any OF
your communications to the
United Nations that went through
that chain of command actually
censored?
Gen. MacArthur-Yes, sir. The
reports that I made, comments
and neutrality-suspicious. came
back to me as to whether I would
accept the changes. Many of those
changes accepted. There were at
least in one case changes which
would not accept, changes which
seemed to me to place a political
slant upon a military officers re-
port, which were not Warrantable
in that it created degree of
discussion between the State and
Defense Departments.
| The Defense Department sup
ported my point of view, and
maintained that nothing should
go in over my signature that !
did not approve
might say that would not
have permitted anything to go in
over my name that I did not ap-
prove
Number of Changes.
Senator Russell-What was that
change to which you refer. gen.
eral, that you refused to make on
the request of the defense estab-
lishment? You said there were
Gen. MacArthur-I don't know
whether the requests were from
the State or the Defense estab-
lishment.
The reports that I submitted
were passed through both of them
but they made a number of
changes in practically every re-
port. I have not got the files here,
and I couldn't tell you. -.
The general g1st of it (the in
cident) was, as I said, that it
seemed to introduce a political
slant which the State Department
believed would be advantageous
in its handling of the various ma
tions of the United Nations at
Lake Success.
;; Senator Russell. prior to the
time that the Chinese Commu-
/. nists intervened in the war, had
any question arisen as to the
i. blockade of China or f-the bomb
: ing of bases in Manchuria in the
J, event that they did intervene?
I Gen. MacArthur-I don't en-
Evening star., 1951-09-27
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