Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-06-25

President Truman said today
The United States is ready to join
n real settlement" of the Ko-
'ean war which fully ends the
aggression and restores peace and
While Mr.. Truman did not so
abel it, that was obviously his
Text Of Trumon's Address, Pose AS
Trumon Apparently Revised Speech After
Soviet Proposal Paee AS
reply to the proposal by Jacob A.
Russian delegate to the
United Nations for cease-fire
and withdrawal of troops from the
area of the 38th Parallel.
Mr.. Truman, on this first ami
versary Of the Communist attack
On South Korea, said the Reds
suffered / million casualties and
have been thrown back behind
the line they started from"
The President, in a major for
eign policy speech, blistered Re-
publican critics for spreading
tear and Islander and lies" and try!
ing to destroy Dean Acheson.
whom he called lone Of the great
est Secretaries Of State in our his
tory"
Uses Guarded Language.
In guarded language, which did
not mention Mr.. Malik or his
proposal specifically, the Presi-
dent told a crowd gathered to
dedicate a new $157, 100000 Air
Force testing center:
I'VE are ready to join in a
peace settlement in Korea now
as we have always been. But it
must be real settlement which
fully ends the aggression and re-
stores peace and security to the
area and to the gallant Korean
people.
In Korea and in the rest Of
the world we must be ready to
take any steps which truly adj
vance us toward world peace. But
we must avoid like the plague,
rash actions which would take
unnecessary risks of world war or
weak actions which reward ag-
gresSion."
The President flew here from
to the Arnold Air
Force Engineering Development
Center. to be devoted to the de-
velopment of jet propulsion and
supersonic flight power.
Hits Macarthur Camp.
His talk fairly bristled with de-
of Republican sup
oorters Of Gen. MacArthur's Ko.
rean policy and critics of Mr..
Acheson, Defense Secretary Mar
shall, Gen. Omar Bradley and
,he Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Mr.. Truman ousted Gen. Mac
Arthur for publicly advocating a
oroadened war against the Chi
1ese Communists. The general
had said his program wouldn't
necessarily bring in Russia, and
that if the other united nations
would not join in, this country
should go it alone"
Without naming Gen. Mac
Arthur, Mr.. Truman said of those
who would take a chance" that
the Soviet Union won't fight in
,he Far East:
They want us to play Russian
roulette with the foreign policy Of
the United States-and with all
The chambers of the pistols
oaded."
He continued:
Unfortunately, it isn't only the
Kremlin that has been trying to
separate us from our Allies.
Assails eco It Alone" Plan.
There are some people in this
country, too, who have been
Trying to get us to go it alone
There are people here who have
been sowing distrust of our Allies
and magnifying our differences
with them.
Some Of these people are sim
,ere but misguided. Others are
deliberately putting politics ahead
Of their country"
Some of the people advocating
this policy, he continued, aren't
in honest debate"
They are trying to set the
people against the Government by
spreading fear and SANDER and
les" the President continued.
(See TRTTMAN Page A-61