Evening star., 1951-04-22

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it with every means at her dis
posal. even if it meant a break
with the United States and other
associated With us.
1t is a strange coincidence that
Mr.. Morrison announced his
terms for terminating the Korean
conflict shortly after Gen. Mac
Arthur had been fired. Communist
China was to be given the right
to participate in the framing Of
the peace treaty for Japan.
Formosa was to be given to the
Peiping government. and the
Chinese Reds would be seated in
the United Nations in place of
the present Nationalist repre-
sentatives.
u. N. Commission Urged
AS for Korea itself the Morrison
note did not go into details. But
the British representatives at the
United Nations were convinced
that it would be a simple matter.
United Nations forces would be
returned to their homelands,
thousands of miles away. Ameri-
can forces would go, too, a few
Of them to Japan, until a peace
treaty is signed. The rest would
go to America or Europe, where
Gen. Eisenhower seems to need
battle trained veterans. The
Chinese Communists would with
draw some 200 miles to the Yalu
River and a United Nations COM
would begin the political
work Of reconstruction.
The State Department realized
that the American people might
not take kindly to such sugges-
tions., Casualty totals in excess
of $4,000 are not taken lightly in
this country. Americans do not
give up easily in adversity.
The original suggestion for a
Korean settlement were made by
London last January. They were
put into concrete official form
only at the end Of March. When
the British Foreign Office first
made this spectacular appease-
ment move, the State Department
became worried. It suggested that
since truce efforts had failed, the
United Nations should brand Red
China as the aggressor.
After the usual protracted dis
cussion, resolution to that eff.
feet was approved. Britain voted
for the resolution with the def.
mite understanding that it would
never be implemented.
Congressional leaders who do
not believe in empty gestures
pressed the State Department for
further action, such as declara-
ton OF a blockade of Red China.
Nothing was done. On the con-
Itrary. Britain continued business
IaS usual.
Rubber Steal in Asia
On April 8 a dispatch from
Singapore revealed that a Soviet
freighter was loading 5000 tons of
rubber. On investigation the in
telligence services discovered that
the vessel had clearance papers
for Shanghai.
The press seldom receives such
information because Britain's
trade with the enemy-active and
potential-now is a matter of rou-
tine. Last spring it was dis
closed in Congress that impor-
tant industrial materials were
leaving British ports for the U. S.
is. r and the satellite countries.
The jet planes which Russia now
has were built after the British
government provided Moscow with
prototypes and blueprints.
The branding of the Chinese
Communists as aggressorS has
done more harm than good. The
criminal who is threatened with q
stiff penalty viii become worse
when he realizes that the authori-
ties are taking no steps to chastise
him.
Congress Knows Facts
These and a number of other
pertinent facts are well known to
Congress. The question which is
likely to arise in the next few
weeks is whether we are adopting
"a wise course insofar as the Ma
ton S security is concerned by
following blindly the strategy
which holds Europe to be all-im-
portant to the free nations and
to this country, while the rest of
the world might just as well fall
into the hands of the Communists.
We have spent untold riches and
are prepared to go further into
debt in order to present a united
front before this great danger
which threatens the free world.
We hope to maintain peace by COLI
lective security through the United
Nations. But in order to become
an efficient instrument for peace
that organization must earn the
respect of the world. And the world
can have few illusions about the
efficiency of the U. N. after it
failed to implement it's decision
against the Chinese aggressors. Mo-
body fears "toothless old wom-
an" as the u. N. now is known
in Asia.
The question before Congress,
which in the final analysis de-
cides the policies Of this country
lis whether we are following the
right course in making Western
Europe the mainstay Of our de-
fense. Some Of the North Allan
tic treaty nations do not seem
to have a clear understanding Of
the fact that sacrifices cannot be
one sided.
They have taken the position
that we need them desperately
and cannot survive without their
help, regardless of how limited it
may be. They are not to be