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Services Committee. observed that
no one had ever made its i'm
portance that clear to his COM
mittee before.
after the hearing, however, that
it could not be assumed that Sec
retaries Marshall and Acneson
were ready to agree to these two
concessions merely because they
were proposed for discussion in
an armistice conference.
The Californian said the danger
he saw in discussing them was
that the cease-fire terms might be
referred by the United Nations for
to a five-country COM
mittee on which a majority might
vote for those concessions.
Under Senator Knowland's S
questioning. Gen. Macarthur tes-
titled:
THE position that was taken
by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in
which I was in fullest agreement,
late in March, as I recall, was
that the terms of an armiStice or
cease-fire should specifically not
include the recognition of any
seating Of Red China in the U. NJ,
or a consideration of turning
over Formosa. That was the rec
ommendation made by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
1T was, I understand, in those
two particulars, disapproved by
the Secretary of Defense, who
said that he believed that those
two items might we'll be consid-
cred at the conference, the peace
conference"
Gen. Macarthur said the rec
concentrations of the Joint Chiefs
went to Gen. Marshall, who for
Warded them "as understand it
to the Secretary of State, but dis
agreed with them on those two
points"
In response to further questions
Gen. Macarthur said he under
stands Mr.. AcheSon asked Gen
Marshall for provisions that would
be included in a ceaSe-fire ar
rangement, that Secretary Mar
shall got the recommendations
from the Joint Chiefs and re-
ferred the papers back to Mr.
Acheson. agreeing with the Joint
Chiefs except in these two points
that I have brought out. What
happened after that I do not
know"
Senator Knowland indicated he
would pursue the matter later
when one or both of the Secre-
taries are witnesses.
Il cannot help but draw a con-
cluSion, pending development oi
additional testimony" observed
Senator Knowland, that that
would leave our arrangement fol
a cease-f1re in precisely the same
position it was when our U. N
representative voted at Lake Sue
cess on January IL for the cease
fire proposal of India and the
Middle East, which at that time
stated specifically that they would
consider in the negotiations the
turning over of Formosa to Com
munist China and the admis-
sion of Communist China into
the U. NJ"
Gen. Macarthur told Senator
KnoWland he was not familiar
with the Yalta agreement, but
added, ut is the impression in
the Far East that one of the
gravest mistakes ever made was
to permit the Soviet to come down
into China at Port Arthur, Darien
and other places of that sort"
Some Democratic members of
the Armed Services and Foreign
Relations Committees said the
two days of Macarthur testimony
had served to point up the basic
dispute in foreign policy.
That, they explained, was
whether the Administrators polio,
of trying to limit the Korean war
a major factor in this country's glo.
bal strategy, should prevail, OF
whether it would be replaced BY
that advocated by Gen. Mac
Arthur and widely supported by
Republicans and others.
No Global War Proposals
In the latter event, they added
Gen. Macarthur had offered nc
proposals of what should be done
in a global war, what would be
required in the way of men anc
material, if his suggested pro-
gram should be adopted anc
should bring on a third world war
That question threaded the en-.
tire hearing yesterday, with Gen
Macarthur consistently holding tt
his view that his plan for victory
would not necessarily bring on an.
other general conflict.
1t was in questioning by Senator
Fulbright that Gen. Macarthur
said war with Russia was not in.
evitable and that peace will
Communist China was possible
Those views were expressed il
an exchange which sometimes
reached plane of political philos,
ophizing and speculation. Ths
general often described as one o1
the worlds foremost soldiers, anc
Sena tor Fulbright, one-time
Rhodes scholar and president o1
the University of Arkansas, dis
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