The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-26
NO ORDER
 VIOLATED,
 MACARTHUR

Tl0SAK1ERON Gen. Collins Insists Only
 Policy" Was Over
 stepped by General
 WASHINGTON, May 26 H Fl Gen. J. Lawton Collins. Army Chief of Staff insisted today that Gen. Douglas Macarthur violated a pol icy" in sending U. S. troops close to the Manchurian border in Korea.
 He said he does not accuse the general of violating an order" but that the Joint Chiefs of Staff feared the thing might be done in some other instance of more serious nature.
 Collins made the statements at hearings by the Senate Armed Serv- ices and Foreign Relations com mittees on MacArthur's dismissal as Far Eastern commander.
 Collins first raised the matter yesterday in response to question. It put whole new issue into the Macarthur hearings because of the implication that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had cautioned Macarthur against action which might bring Chinese Communists into the Korea War, but he had disregarded their policy views.
 Bombing Issue
 Collins said the Pentagon care fully reviewed. the idea of bomh- ing Chinese Communist bases in Manchuria last November and again ,ssY~vu4lusly e.du eacii tiine ft.J1ssSt0sdl it.
 MacArthur's public advocacy of using air power against Chinese bases, in an effort to shorten the Korean war, was one of the policy differences figuring in his dismissal.
 Soon after returning to the witt ness chair today, Collins said he had checked his records and it ap- peared that McArthur never did specifically request authority toI bomb such targets.
 No Recommendation
 "So far as we have been able to locate" Collins said, ''he made no specific recommendation but in all frankness and honesty, in my judgment he clearly indicated that he thought it ought to be done :.
 Collins went on to say Macarthur had raised the question of bomb ing such targets as early as last Nov. T, when he stated that re- strictions placed upon the United Nations operations in Korea provid- ed sanctuary for hostile forces"
 At that time, Collins said, Mac Arthur sought instructions for deal ing with this new and threatening development"
 Collins added that after MacAr- thurs Nov. ' message there were several references to the matter apparently by Macarthur from that time forward"
 
 Chinese Attacked
 Senator Russell asked whether the Chinese had attacked in force in Korea at the time of the Nov. ' message.
 NO. not until the 24th of Novem- ber," Collins replied.
 Senator Hickehlooper commented it was cutting commander down pretty thin" if he was required ito write to the Joint Chiefs of Sta1l every time he wants to load can non or, say, put five rounds in rifle"
 Russell said he saw absolutely no relationship between asking per- mission to load a cannon and asking permission to bomb forces outside of Korea that had not yet demon strated that they were attacKihg our Armed Forces" Russell added:
 1So Intervention
 "IC woulu seem to be qlDte difference in that and in deciding to attack neutral forces that were within their own country and nao not yet intervened in the war"
 Collins said the Joint Chiefs o1 Staff gave consid eration to the bombing issue.
 Although they had decided against it, he said, i've carefully reviewed the thing after message from Mac Arthur dated the 7th of November We then again reviewed it in early January"
 Collins testified that the Joint Chiefs also referred the matter to Secretary of Defense Marshall, but added it remained their opinion that targets in China and Man churia should not be attacked under the conditions that then existed"