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supplies anywhere they want
them outside of Korean and be
assured that no damage will be
done to them, and so long as
their industry is allowed to func,
ton on all tours, and so long as
we have to make the long trek
across the Pacific with our sup.
plies and troops, we are counting
an inevitable disaster.
China, although very poor
and ignorant for centuries since
the building of the great China
Wall and their isolation from the
rest of the world, nevertheless is
the richest country in the world
in manpower. Their birth rate is
so high and they have so many
people that they can march a
column soldiers off a cliff at
the rate of four every second,
"a hours a day, 365 days a year
and maintain their same con,
slant population. This hypotheti.
cal means of graduating Chinese
would total a fabulous 127,000,-
900 a year. Now the Chinese I'm.
der ordinary circumstance:
would not raise this number Of
youngsters each year because
millions die annually for want
of food and other of life's neces.
sites. However, if an Army was
being eliminated rapidly, the
number of deaths by starvation
would be reduced and the popula.
ton would be maintained. No
Anticipated means of warfare can
or will kill an enemy so rapidly.
Now when you add this man.
power, to almost a similar mum.
Der, roughly 350,0OO,00O Rus.
slams, who are presently working
in farming and industry to keep
t HI cir Chinese Communists
friends supplied, you have the
nucleus for the strongest fight
ing force ever assembled in the
world. It's only a matter of time
before the Russians join the
Chinese in the fight, forming an
Army of manpower undreamed
of before in history, in so far as
shear force of number is conc.
erned.
The Army of Germany in the
last war, and Germany is com.
paratively a small country, never
had more than 200 divisions in
the field at the same time or
about 100000 men. Today the
Chinese alone have nearly twice
that many; more than 100000
soldiers we'll trained and equip
ped and strangely enough, anx.
ious to die for their Communism
as drilled into them by their Sow.
let neighbor. Millions more can
be recruited anytime.
Yes, to us the United States
needs to mobilize and gear its
to warfare rapidly, just
as rapidly as is humanity posi-.
BILE. It would seem that as of
the past few weeks, this is being
done. But we were miserably
late in starting, and thanks to
Former Defense Secretary Louis
Johnson, miserably weak to start
with.
And also, as we see it, unless
we do have some such secret
weapon as Walter Winchell dis
closed last week, which could
destroy every living piece of
grass in Korea in "a hours and
kill 100000 Russians or Chin.
csc overnight, we are going
about this war in a dangerously
haphazard way. Thousands or
dying in the old, old way OF
with rifles and hand
grenades. The saving of our boys
over there should be our strate-
gy regardless of the cost of lives
to the enemy who perpetrated
this war and even now seeks to
spread it's Communistic wings
throughout the world.
Last week we lost Seoul accord,
ing to schedule. Our forces are
dropping back to Pusan again
tor another last ditch stand.
This time we have both the North
Korean Army and the Chinese
communists to ward off. Unless
we wake up, use our bombs
where they will do the most
good, back in Manchuria and
throughout the area supplying
the enemy army, and unless VIC
eventually allow Chang Ka
Sheck's Formosian Army to join
IN the Allied cause, we stand
no chance of stopping our re
treat short of the temporary
sanctuary of Japan.