The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-05-03
Senecaville, Ohio
April "a. 1851

We, as a nation, have always
admired the qualities of General
Douglass Macarthur. He is one
of our great generals in the
heart of the people. But l
scarcely agree with him when he
says he will be like all the others,
fade away and pass out of the
picture. History proves that all
our great generals, admirals,
presidents, etc, never pass en-
tirely into oblivion. Their past
history is constantly in front of
every generation while going
through school. They are never
forgotten.
General D. Macarthur is far
from a broken down soldier and
no doubt this dismissal is one of
the hardest blows of his life. Yet
he and most of the nation feel
that after all it was an honor
able dismissal. Yet the differ
ences between our president of
United States and him was of
very grave, difficult and con-
sequental decisions.
1t is decisions that have a
bearing on the entire world. A
decision which most of us would
scarcely want to make. President
Harry S. Truman could be right
General Douglass Macarthur
could be right. 1t would and is
gamble. Which action would
! bring the war to a close. We
haven't the men for man-for-
man fighting. China can push
them in like bees. The atom or
H-bombs could lay them low. We
would have to gamble as to
whether Russia would be at her
| borders as China communists are
in Korea. Naturally the Reds are
furnishing her war equipment
and in all probability back of all
the manuvering in China for
Communism is an aggressor an
ARMY invading every nation
without actual fighting.
When he entered the war the
front lines were decided upon.
We have won two wars in my
opinion for our boys have been
to the 38th parallel twice. It has
not been an all out war such as
World WarI or II, but should we
get started in China, we have
the whole continent of Asia on
our backs and that includes mill
| lions of people. We, however,
have never been towards and
have won our wars and are the
only country in the world who
can pick up her fighting
strength and go aboard to deal
with an enemy. We are expert
enced but others have advanced.
In the last twenty years of
wars and agitation in Japan and
China can be traced to infiltration
of comments of Russia We were
like Adam and Eve in the gar
den of Eden. Adam was the
I stronger and should have protect
! ed Eve, but was sleeping on the
! Job as were the men who fell
asleep at the sepulcher when the
resurrection took place. We have
| had our eyes closed to the in
filtration of foreign elements. We
let the wolves in, in sheep cloth
ing. Napoleon started out to
conquer Europe and they were
smarter then he, therefore, they
kept him and his armies to first
in one front and another, until
they wore him down.
We should try ad take the in
centive and pull our enemy to
! where we could best win a war
! with them in case we are forced
to do so. We have to outSmart
our enemy and have Christian
soldiers with the cross of Jesus
marching on before. God always
wins these wars. He's given us
brave and honest men who were
Bible readers and who brought
! forth the right man at the right
time. So long as they were a
Christian nation. He always
failed Israel when they had an
unjust ruler. They had 19 kings
and one queen. They were Gods
chosen people, yet they failed
him and he also failed them
Therefore, they are scattered all
over the world. They failed God,
so will they fail nations. Presi-
dent Truman could have brought
General Macarthur home and
dismissed him in a more honor
able way, but as it is Macarthur
| knows how he stands with the
people. So does Truman and
Truman knows how he stands
with the American people.
If we used the atom bomb our
allies are afraid Russia would re-
taliate on them, there has to
be, let's not call it appeasement,
| but consideration of all our al
lies to keep them cooperative
| if possible. We would not care
if Russia herself was communist
| is as long as she kept it within
her borders. But perhaps she is
| Just as critical of Democracy. She