Evening star., 1951-04-18
There Are Two Sides to the Question
To the Editor Of The Stor:

II The Wal III EAOT6h ~ Ul Sd llbtlc iul-
portance that one man. who has done
nothing but go fishing and call people
names and entertain lavisfly for foreign
visitors, can dismiss general who has
proved many times his worth as soldier
and leader Of men, then am in favor Of
calling all our men and boys back.
Certainly, I am against any more
powers being handed to the President.
Mrs. r. L. Glasener.
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Whenever there is controversy. you
always choose to headline the defeatist
or the alarnist point of view. regardless
of the fact that this point of view gem
orally is only that of the minority. You
reserve the small print and the back
pages for the views of the majority.
The removal Of Gen. Macarthur is a
case in point. You choose to headline
the views OF the rabble- -rousing wing Of
the minority, ignoring the statements
Of responsible men such as Represent
ative Vinson or Senator Saltonstall.
Wouldn't it help to promote the cause
of peace and understanding among men
to sometime support the views of our
President? After all, he was elected to
his Office by the people. high and low.
Why always play the game OF the
few publicity hungry and often irrespon-
Sible Representatives and Senators?
Wouldn't we all feel better today If your
newspaper had carried yesterday ban
ner headlines such as Chairman Armed
Services Committee Backs Truman for
Firing Macarthur. Declares it Was High
Time. MacArthur'S Services as Soldier
Praised" We would feel even better If
the childish talk about impeachment had
been reported on the last page.
Responsible journalism can help us a
great deal. Unfortunately. regret to
say that I cannot consider The Stars
headline policy specimen Of such jour
nalism. a.
Eighty-six years after the Civil War
we at last have discovered why the South
didn't win the Civil War. President
Jefferson Davis did not fire Gen. Rob-
ert E. Lee!
Prescott bennett.
From the fuss the Republicans are
msking over the Presidents firing Mac
Arthur, one would think that it's never
happened before. But during Taft's
administration, 40 years ago, General
Ainsworth (Also very popular) was fired
from his job as Adjutant General. Also
Abraham Lincoln removed Generals
Mcclellan, Pope. Burnside. Hooker and
Meade from their Civil War commands,
before settling on Grant.
In a democracy no man is indispenS-
ible. Truman is a great President.
Walter Fielder.
With heavy heart America mourns
the most tragic mistake Washington has
made in $50 years by appeasing Russia
(through Red China and 10 Downing
street) in removing our wisest and
strongest barrier to communism in the
Pacific theater. This opens the door to
Sovietizing Japan, Formosa, the Philip
pines and Hawaii. One by one Britain
will insist that Good Old Harry
surrender Formosa to the Reds; seat
the Red Chinese at the Japanese peace
table. and open the door to seating
Red China in the United Nations as
an honorable member! OF course.
Good Old Harry" will be able to get
out of Korea and Britain will be able
to remain temporarily in possession of
Hong Kong. This is what We have
earned with $4,000 casualties and billions
given Europe. <F s.
Fred p. Patton, M. d.
North Sacramento, Cal.
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It would be a sad commentary upon
the country to assume that its foreign
policy whatever the circumstances, could
be more capably defined by an Army
commander than by, say, the Secretary
of State. who is charged with the tre-
mendous task of originating it. OF
course, it is natural that opponents of
the present policy will condemn the
course of Mr.. Truman. But the people
of the country must realize that partisan
ship carries with it no such seriousness
as does policy.
John w. Nicholas.
think it's high time that the Ameri-
can pupl.c demand that H. S. Truman
*be permanently retired to his farm in
Missouri along with Acheson, Snyder.
Marshall, McGrath, Barkley. Donaldson,
6TdIlIldll, SdWycT anu 4ODIIl, dIlO IiidJ
he be- replaced with truly great Ameri-
can and a real leader-Gen. Douglas
Macarthur.
FA Oliver X. Wilson.
The country should be thankful that
we have at this time two Republican
Senators who have risen above party. In
their attitudes during the troops for
Europe debate and the present MacAr-
thur upheaval they have proven then1-
selves. not politicians, but statesmen.
The mantle of Senator Vandenberg
would seem to have fallen upon the
shoulders of Senators Saltonstall and
Lodge of Massachusetts. ii
Virginia Walker.
We no longer are at the crossroads.
We have turned off on the road marked
Appeasement-which leads down to De-
feat! We must turn back and continue
on the highway trod by great nations.
Our citizens must, and believe do,
understand this. We must be strong
and carry through our campaigns to
their only logical conclusion-the defeat
of the enemy. We cannot accept q
compromise with principle.
It is my firm conviction that If we
take up the gauntlet flung at us by the
Chinese Communists and give them a
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