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received any such recommends
ton from Gen. Macarthur"
The White House refused COM
ment.
Senator Taft, Republican. of
Ohio. has said he favors pulling
American troops out Of Korea If
holding there means the loss of
large numbers of additional
American lives.
All administration pronounce
ments, however. have stressed that
the United States has no intention
of withdrawing from Korea VOL
unfairly. This policy was not
understood. however. to foreclose
a withdrawal If the cost of re-
naming became exorbiLant.
Dispatch Says Macarthur
Seeks Total Withdrawal
This is the dispatch denied
by Gen. MdcArthur's spokesman
G7tG tIe FeHLGgOnJ
BY keyes Beech
Foreign Correspondent Of The stor and
the chieose Dolly News
TOKYO, Jan. 10.-Gen. Mac
Arthur is understood to have rec
commended to Washington the
withdrawal of all United Nations
forces in Korea. I learned today
from authoritative sources.
So far as is known here, Wash
ington has reached no decision on
the generals recommendation.
If one has been reached it has not
been communicated to this head
quarters, I am told.
With the Chinese Communists
pressing hard on the heels of re-
treating U. N. troops. and in
creased guerrilla activity behind
our lines in South Korea, an early
decision is considered imperative
from the military standpoint.
The U. N. forces are withdraw
ing in good order. They are vir-
tually intact as a fighting force
and can inf1ict heavy casualties on
the enemy. If ordered to stop and
fight they will.
But in high military quarters
this is considered losing PROPOSE
ton. According to military esti-
mates the Chinese have the poten-
tial to push us of the Korean
peninsula.
Gen. MacArthur's primary mo-
tive in recommending withdrawal,
according to my sources, is to save
as an effective fighting force .ir-
tually the entire American army
now in Korea.
Behind this. it is understood,
is the general privately held con-
viction that the United States can
not win a war against China on
the Asiatic land mass.
Once U. N. troops were safely
out OF Korea, it is believed in
informed circles. Gen. Macarthur
would like to carry the war to
China in way that would hurt
us least and China mostly aerial
bombardment and naval blockade.
II U. N. forces are pulled out Of
Korea it will be one OF the big
gest and strangest excavations in
history-accompanied by a prom
ise to return at later date.
The United Nations army totals
more than zoe, COO men, of which
more than 100000 are Americans.
1t is understood Gen. Macarthur
would evacuate more than 100 900
South Korean soldiers to be used
as the nucleus Of a liberation"
army, II the time should come.
These troops would be with
drawn to Japan to establish a de-
fense line against further Com
munist expansion in Asia.
Top-level authorities here. al
though recognizing that Russia is
bound by treaty to come to
China's aid in case of attack, are
betting that Russia won't come IN.
They don't believe Russia is
ready for World War III. AL
though they profess no inside in
formation. they doubt if Russia
has he atomic bomb in SUFFICIENT
quantity to risk atomic war.
They say that Russia's actions
do not indicate that it is ready
for war. And they say that il
Russia is not ready it is only be-
cause it has not enough atomic
bombs.
The alternative to going to war
against China is to deliver all