The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-04-14

Within few days, he discovered that he was not an American Com mander, but a United Nations Commander. He discovered that unlike any ether commanding Gen. eral in the field, his decisions were subject to the approval of a vast Congress of Nations, large and small, among whom are our en- emies, Soviet Russia and Poland, to mention only two.
 He also discovered that Great Britain, with as much responsibil- ity, as we have to maintain treaty obligations and the integrity Of the United Nations, was engaged in a weird strategy which included three divergent and contradictory factors.
 1. To send token troops to fight in the Korean war;
 2. To oppose such second-front tactics as might be useful, as. fol instance, support of Nationalist China and the anti Communlst Guerrillas on the mainland;
 3. To use all efforts, including their effective propaganda agencies to limit the Korean war to stale mated, targetless action with the view that American aid and larges- SC might not be diverted from Eur ope to Asia.
 And in conjunction with this, Macarthur discovered that mdla' just freed from the British RaJ, merged as Soviet spokesman, the reason for this unusual demarche being the Cashmir and other antag- onisms against Pakistan, Nehru seeking Russian support in his struggle against Moslems in India. On all sides he saw the United States being sacrificed while Amer ican sons were being killed.
 War is unpleasant under any circumstances; it becomes a horror when the Commanding General is being stabbed in the back ana the troops under him are belng sacrificed on the altar of polltlcai necessities. No General wants ms men to die for nothing.
 All this, General MacArthur, IT. his roundabout language to Con gressman Joe Martin, has made clear to the American people.
 It is a pity that General Mac Arthur had to use such means as letters to Congressmen and private individuals to break through his muzzling by the Pentagon and the State Department. He wanted his own people to know that it is inn possible to bring this Korean war to victorious end. Fer this, he has been dismissed on the basis of insubordination.
 As a military man, he knows that what the geniuses in Washington want to do is ridiculous, impossible. They want to play an amending game of tag, with nobody getting hurt except the troops there. The plan is the loquacious dream oI gentle personalities who have great capacity for loving the enemy Their confusion arises from lack of focus; they are global in the!r outlook, without anchorage in the United States of America. They do not quite know whether they really prefer the American system of life or any other. Acheson and Marshall accept British policy be- cause they cannot devise policy of their own.
 To a man of MacArthur's train ing and history, these men must appear like curiosities, more perl lous than a fighting enemy, for lacking cohesion of thought, they move simultaneously in different directions which at times make them appear to be miasmic.
 The crime against General Dolg- las Macarthur has been that he has been given responsibility but he has not been permitted to win a war or to tell America why we are failing in war No man could have held such a position toe long with dignity and honor.
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