Evening star., 1951-05-03

fully about Formosa. Then the
President added: There is no
need to cover that subject again.
The General and I are in complete
agreement"
Presumably, the two men dis
'cussed Formosa when they were
alone. earlier that day. Several
Senate committee members said
lit was their understanding the
summary they made public did not
cover what may have been said
at the private Truman Macarthur
meeting.
After the President and Gen.
Macarthur had met privately,
they were joined in the larger
meeting by the following: Admiral
Arthur w. Radford, Commander
/ Iin-Chief, United States Pacific
Fleet; John Muccio. special am
bassador to Korea; Army Secretary
Frank Pace, Col. A. L. Hamblen,
Mr. Jessup. Gen. Bradley, Assistant
Secretary of State Dean Rusk. and
w. Averell Hartman, special ad-
wiser to the President.
Break on New Decisions.
Since his recall from the Far
East. Gen. Macarthur has con-
tended that no one foresaw the
Intervention of Red China. He has
described that Intervention as a
new act Of aggression which called
for new decisions. It was his diff
ferences with Washington over
those decisions which led to the
break.
At one point in the Wake Island
conference there was a discussion
of psychological rehabilitation in
Korea after the shooting stops,
and Ambassador Muccio men
toned that sound trucks had been
very effective in educational work
in the absence of newspapers and
radio.
President Truman Joined in to
remark, Il believe in sound trucks.
I won two elections with them"
Gen. Macarthur, according to
the report, gave high praise to
cooperation he received from
Washington agencies. Asked by
Secretary of the Army Pace
whether he needed anything in
terms of ECA and Army co-opera-
tion," he replied:
mo commander in the history
of war has ever had more COM
Iplete and adequate support from
all agencies in Washington than
I have"
"War Criminals" Discussed.
The future of war criminals"
and the condition of North Ko-
irean prisoners held by U. N. forces
came up for discussion.
Gen. Macarthur, in reply to a
question by w. Averell Hartman,
special assistant to the President,
declared:
Don't touch the war criminals.
1t doesn't work. The Nuremberg
trials and Tokyo trials were no
deterrent. In my own right I can
handle those who have committed
atrocities and, if we catch them, I
intend to try them Immediately
by military commission.
AS for the $4,000 North Korean
prisoners then being held, Gen.
Macarthur said in response to
Gen. Bradley's question that those
prisoners "are the happiest Ko-
reans in all Korea" He added
that he believed there is no real
split but their attitude is due only
to the banner that flies over
them"
Truman Asked Few Questions.
The report indicates that the
President asked comparatively
few questions at that conference.
But he raised one of the most
important when he wanted to
know what are the chances for
Chinese or Soviet interference"
VERY little" Gen. Macarthur
answered. Had they interfered
in the first or second months it
would have been decisive. We are
no longer fearful of their inter-
!vention. We no longer stand hat
in hand"
| When the conversation turned
to conditions in Japan, Gen. Mac
Arthur predicted that the country
would be "self-sufficient in 1852,
treaty or no treaty. He urged
that the United States go ahead
with making a peace treaty with
Japan if Soviet Russia persisted
in refusing to take part.
/ The President asked Gen. Mac
Arthur what he thought about a
possible pact of Pacific nations
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