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Evening star., 1951-05-24
Bradley Admits Lack Of Policy
Both United Nations and United States Are Marking
Hoping Chinese Reds Will Negotiate Settlement

have been and are generally in
agreement on the military
course to be pushed, but the
difference lies in evaluating
Russia's intentions. Gen. Mac
Arthur thinks the Russians will
not intervene if Manchurian
bases are bombed. Gen. Bradley
thinks they might intervene,
and that it is this risk which he
and other members of the Joint
Chiefs say should not be taken.
8. There was a very poor liai-
son between Gen. Macarthur
and Washington. Although
Washington officials assumed
that the general knew about
certain developments. they fail
ed to keep him posted on
what they were trying to do
through the United Nations.
and yet they claim his mes
sage to the Chinese commander
upset their cease fire" nego-
tiations. There is no evidence
that the Chinese were then or
have since then been willing to
talk peace.
9. It is estimated by Gen.
Bradley-just as Gen. MacAr-
thur claimed--that neither the
United States nor the U. N. has
any policy" in Korea at pres
ent except to fight a passive de-
fense, and that there is no in
tention to carry the war to the
bases of supply Of the enemy
Red China.
So it looks-and Gen. Brad
ley admits it-as if the U. N.
is marking time. The U. N. is
waiting for the Chinese Com
munists to oblige us and nego-
tiate a settlement" Several
Senators on the committee are
trying to find out what kind of
settlement the U. N. or our
Government could possibly
make which-after withdrawal
of our forces-could prevent the
Communists at any time from
marching across the border
again.
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Evening star., 1951-05-24
Constantine Brown:
Peace Proposal Terms Revealed
Armsoe Plans Drafted Here Were Submitted to u NJ
For Approval and Transmission to Peipnq

This reporter learns from an
unimpeachable source that the
Armistice proposal which was
drafted last March in Washing
ton and submitted to the United
Nations for approval and trans
mission to Peiping contained.
among other things, the follow
ing terms:
Cd After a cease-fire has be-
come effective and the fighting
forces have been withdrawn a
new election should be held for
the whole of Korea. under the
control of special mission
from the U. N. in which those
countries which had sent mill
tary forces to Korea would be
excluded.
(2) A neutral force would
police both sides of the 80 par
allel until the elections have
taken place and a new unified
government has been estab-
lished.
80 Formosa-still formally a
japanese possession-would be
placed under a United Nations
trusteeship for a period of five
years, at the end of which its
status would be decided by a
plebiscite.
Nothing was said about the
Chinese Communist government
replacing the Nationalists in the
U. N. But Secretary Of State
Acheson previously had stated
that while this country would
oppose the Chinese Communist
claim to the seat in the U. NJ,
there was no possibility of using
the veto and this Government
would abide by the decision of
the majority.
On March "a, while this cease
Evening star., 1951-05-24
David Lawrence:

Unfortunately, the full text
Of the Senate inquiry into the
circumstances surrounding the
removal of Gen. Macarthur is
not getting to the public--or
to many officials here either, be-
cause it is so voluminous that
most newspapers haven't the
paper to print it.
It costs at least $25 a day to
buy it from the Stenographers.
The Senate committee will print
it a few weeks hence.
This correspondent has read
every word of the testimony
from the beginning and can
state that the record is full Of
rambling, repetitious, and con-
Trajectory statements by Sena-
tors as we'll as by witnesses.
The record shows that the
committee has needed a coun-
sci and associate counsel to
represent the two sides of the
controversy and to get the facts
arranged in some sort Of under
standable sequence.
Only now, in the last hours
of Gen. Bradley's testimony,
have some of the most essential
facts in the whole hearing been
developed as a result of in
termittent questioning by Sena-
tors Knowland, Wiley, Smith
of New Jersey and Hickenlooper.
From Gen. Bradley's testi-
mony it now is established that:
/. Gen. Bradley is not familiar
with the terms of the alleged
document which was supposed
to have been circulated among
IA nations about a cease fire"
negotiation March 20 last and
which, it is now conceded, was
never sent to Gen. Macarthur.
2. Although a message was
sent, saying the State Depart
ment was planning" some such
announcement, nothing more
was ever sent to Gen. MacAr-
thur giving him any word as to
a decision to do it. At that
time scarcely a week went by
that some U. N. plan to bring
Evening star., 1951-05-24

living of the selfish few" but
of every American family.
Most Americans do believe
that the national interest comes
first. What they do not agree
on is either President Truman's
or Gen. MacArthur's view Of
what the national interest is.
What has never been demon
strated is that the war in Korea
limited or extended-is in the
national interest. What is not
demonstrable as in the national
interest is the proposition that
peace is indivisible" and that
it is the duty of the United
States forcibly to oppose Com
munist aggression wherever it
may occur.
The President says, "It ought
to be the easiest thing in the
world to agree upon a good de-
fense program to hold down the
cost of living"
We say the Presidents pro-
gram is not good defense
program regardless of its effect
on the cost of living.
Defense, to be a program"
must pose limited objectives.
We defy any war board, even if
composed of geniuses, to plan
a strategy for a policy which
Evening star., 1951-05-24
Lowell We7ett
Dean Rusk Should Be Relieved
Acheson Has Permitted Appeosennent Of His Critics
To Reach Dangerous Extreme-Time to Stand Up
Lowell MeIIett::

An administration in office is
not only required to have a
foreign policy. 1t is required
also to carry it out. The second
part of the job is the hardest.
That is particularly true in a
democratic country. The Gov
ernment cannot move effectively
very long unless it has the solid
support Of the people. It must
obtain and hold this support in
the face of unceasing criticism
from its political opponents. who
do not labor under the handicap
of responsibility and are free
to promote every natural pref
udice, every possible suspicion,
every hot emotion common to us
human beings. Holding the solid
support of the people, which in
cludes even the political critics,
becomes very difficult but never
ceases to be essential. For some
of these critics have power. They
sit in Congress and vote on the
measures and the money needed
to carry out foreign policy.
Craftsmanship, or politics, be-
ing the art of the possible. the
administration in Office finds it
necessary at times to conciliate
or appease its critics. That is
especially true when its own
strength in Congress is less than
overwhelming. So it does con-
ciliate and appease, seeking to
obtain what it can at the mo-
ment and hoping for the best.
Maybe there is no other way.
but the results can be disas-
trous.
They are likely to be disas-
trous in the case of our China
policy if the speech made by
Evening star., 1951-05-24
Henry WcLen1ore:
Envies People Who Enjoy
Life in Great Outdoors.

wasn't any cream for my coffee
two mornings running. A lesser
man, I try to brag, would have
blown sky high.
I am writing along these lines
because of a brochure 7 received
the other day inviting me (for
a very reasonable fee) to be
a member of a "jolly party"
which would put out in July
aboard a sailboat and cruise (if
that's what a sailboat does) for
a couple of weeks.
Every member of the party
will be a working deckhand, or
will cook, scrub, repair sails,
stand watch. handle the wheel,
or be on the lookout for hurri-
canes. whales, icebergs and
other fun-producing whims Of
nature. .--.
The brochure said I'd have to
hurry; only a few vacancies
were left, and they were being
rapidly filled. AS an added fea-
ture, the boat-when rocks,
tides and hostile natives would
allow-would tie up at shore at
night and the evening meal
would be cooked on land.
Golly, I'd like to take that
trip. just to be able to talk
about it when I got back. But
if I took the trip I wouldn't
be able to talk about it. save
to my nurse from a hospital bed.
So I guess I'll have to go on
envying men who thrill to sleep
ing on branches filed with
cones, or moss, and an occa-
sional squirrel, and who prefer
coffee cooked over twigs when
a nice, soaking rain is falling,
and who are just this side of
Paradise when they can get up
every morning at daylight for
two weeks. sore and aching in
every limb.
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Evening star., 1951-05-24

about a cease fire" wasn't re-
ported in the press as the hope
of this or that U. N. faction.
8. The charge that Gen. Mac
Arthur appropriated the Ian
guage and the terms of the doc
ument allegedly circulated
among the IA nations has now
been disproved. He never was
sent any such document. There
is some question that any such
document ever was seen by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
4. Gen. Bradley says Gen.
Macarthur should have known
that there was such document
planned and that he should not
have addressed a surrender
demand to the enemy. Gen.
Macarthur has said in a public
statement that he twice had ad-
dressed similar demands to the
enemy commander and that he
did a third time on his own in
itiative what he previously had
twice been authorized to do.
5. Gen. Bradley says that the
famous message to the conven-
tion of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars was not in disagreement
with the views of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff with respect to
the strategic Importance Of For
mosa and that he does not
know what in that document
could have caused the President
or the Secretary of State to
have been displeased.
6. Gen. Bradley says that
Gen. Macarthur did not commit
any act of military insubordina-
ton and that, so far as he
knows, the Far Eastern Com
mander was dismissed for stat
ing certain views publicly, even
though it is difficult now to
point out just what phrases, If
any, were embarrassing and he
prefers the Secretary of State to
point them out when he testi-
fies.
7. The views of Gen. Mac
Arthur and the Joint Chiefs
Evening star., 1951-05-24
Dorothy Thompson:

''You know, the hardest thing
in the world to find is a real
fact. :.
II don't think people ought to
have any trouble agreeing on
the national interest every
body is a patriot and be-
lieves that the national interest
comes first, and that, at a time
like this, when some of our
young people are fighting and
dying to stop Communist ag-
gression it ought to be easy
to get together in unity of spirit
and action. =.
ut ought to be the easiest
thing in the world to agree on
a good defense program to hold
down the cost Of living. :"
The above are excerpts from
the Presidents Washington ad-
dress on May II to the National
Conference on Citizenship. The
President concentrated on the
prevention of imitation by the
renewed of the price, wage and
rent controls, which expire on
June 80. He warned that unless
the public, as a whole, eXerted
pressure on Congress, selfish in
terests. represented by the vari-
Gus Washington lobbies. will
drive loopholes in the admins
tration's program for continued
and increased controls and
taxation.
We do not agree with the
President that "the most diff
cult thing in the world to find
Is a real fact" But we do think
that it is difficult to find facts
that will bear scientific scru-
tiny, in most political state
ments, including this latest ad-
dress Of the President.
The present war-inflation has
one single cause: War. Actual
war in Korea and war spending
imposed on an already gigantic
national debt deriving from the
last war. There is no conceiv-
able way of curbing this inf1a-
ton except by curbing the mill
tary commitments which are
its cause. Controls will not do
it. Controls are not a cure for,
but one of the results of the
inf1ationary disease. Imitation.
in an economy which plans
military program costing $40
to 500 billion a year, is a "real
fact" involving. not a painless
reduction in the standard of
Evening star., 1951-05-24

his opinion no special con-
cessions were necessary to settle
the Korean affair. This, on the
basis of the present information,
was exactly opposite to what
Washington and the United Ma
tions had in mind at that time.
Gen. Macarthur felt that if
the enemy were convinced that
the Allies were determined in
their objectives, the Red leaders
might be induced to come to
terms. The warning about dire
consequences and total destruc-
tion III event of nom n-compliance
with the terms was intended to
convey to the Reds our decision
to stick by the principles which
brought the Allied forces into
the Korean war.
The former Supreme Com
mander is far better acquainted
with the mentality of his Asiatic
opponents than either President
Truman, his political and mill
tary advisers in Washington or
the British or French repre-
sentatives in the United Ma
tions. He was convinced that in
dealing with Orientals we must
lead from strength and not from
weakness.
Last winters attempts for an
armistice or settlement did not
succeed because we covered in
stead of taking a firm position
with the Communist foes.
In Washington this attitude Of
the general was Immediately
considered as sabotage of what
was described as "well-conceived
proposals." which were couched
in terms to save our face and at
the same time yield to the
enemy.
Evening star., 1951-05-24

eign policy effectively have end
ed Gen. Eisenhower's chances
for the Republican nomination.
They are not quite sure that
Senator Taft can be nominated,
though they talk as if they were
for public consumption; they
think Senator Taft could and
would veto Ike.
They also predict that if Gen.
Macarthur reads himself out
of the Republican nomination
he will do it in such a way as to
bar Ike also; that is. he will
say that professional soldiers
shouldn't try to be President.
Not too many are prepared to
say that Gen. Macarthur is real
ly out of it; they are positive that
If he is, he will want company.
The first reports from the
Denver meeting of the Demo-
cratic National Committee in
dicate that the party leaders
through the country are not too
cast down by the Presidents low
estate. They are said to have
still the confidence born of 1948
that he can fight his way back
with the people.
Whether they are whistling
in the dark or not, they have
certainly learned that If a
President wants denomination,
he'll get it. That is why pro-
Eisenhower Senators have been
wondering how to induce Mr..
Evening star., 1951-05-24
Doris FIeeson:

A Senator from the deep
South broke into an old hymn
tune when told that Harry C..
Butcher, World War II aide to
Gen. Eisenhower, had written
that President Truman him
self might suggest his (Ike's)
name to the Democratic con-
vention."
"Oh happy day that fixed
my choice" caroled this men,
ber of the Russell committee
which is exploring the case Of
Gen. Macarthur.
Many Democratic politicians
feel that Mr.. Butcher has Of
fered the ideal solution. 1t
would put their retiring Presi-
dent in an attractively unset
fish light before the country
and it would fulfill every con-
dition that Gen. Eisenhower
has laid down for his own
candidacy. The truth is that
a number of them had been
wondering how to plant the
idea at the White House that
the way for Mr.. Truman really
to insure the continuation Of
his policies was to kidnap Ike,
himself personally.
Democrats appear genuinely
satisfied that the Macarthur
fracas and the increasingly firm
attitudes struck by Senator Taft
with respect to his party's for
Evening star., 1951-05-24

selves an endless commitment
to war.
Devious disclaimers will not
rescue the true policy pro-
nounced by Secretary Acheson
a year ago. Mr.. Rusk should
be relieved.
1t is time for Secretary Ache
son to meet head-on the issues
that have been raised against
him. 1t may cost him his job.
1t may cost his party the elec-
ton next year. That might not
be an actual misfortune. It
might bring a sense of RESPONSE
bility to those who now have
nothing to do but criticize and
obstruct. Faced with the conse-
quences Of their present course.
a bloody mess in Asia for the
duration of their term in Office,
and probably longer, they might
be willing to look the truth in
the face and begin acting ac-
cordingly.
Evening star., 1951-05-24
Henry McLemore:

Envy is a detestable trait, and
I have done my best to stamp it
out of my being. but without
complete success.
I've gone a pretty good way.
however.
I have gotten over being envi-
Gus of tall. handsome men with
money, and short, ugly men
with money, and medium sized,
medium looking men with
money.
No longer do I regard with
envious eyes men who have bet
ter paper match-ccver collec-
tions than mine, or whose socks
stay UP without their having to
wear garters.
But for the life of me I can't
stop envying men who like to
rough 1t on their vacations.
Every time I meet a man who
plans to spend two weeks or a
month up to his Adams apple
in an ice cold trout stream,
sleeping in a tent scarcely big
enough to hold himself and the
insects that want to nibble on
him. I get as green-eyed as q
Sultan'S emerald
I get the same reprehensible
reaction when I read of a man
who plans to get away from
the cares OF work by climbing
the face of a mountain that
doesn't even have a 5 o'clock
shadow to cling to.
Oh, I sigh this time of year,
to be the sort Of man who likes
to walk miles with a canoe on
top of his head, and then launch
it in a mess of boiling rapids.
and shoot all the way from Can
ada to New Orleans, living off
shrubs and relatives that he
passes on the way.
The gals go for that sort Of
man. They like husbands who
come back from their vacations
as battered as a $35 special in
a used car lot, and who smell
of burned bacon. mosquito To-
ton, dead fish and rotted wood
and leaves.
Me, I always come back from
a vacation smelling like a rock
ing chair, and with nothing more
heroic to talk about than the
morning I gave the maid the
devil for tucking my covers in
at the foot too tight, or how I
held myself together when there
Evening star., 1951-05-24

Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary
Of State, is what it appears to
be: A deliberate effort to ap-
pease the political opposition
by throwing away what remains
of a national policy that once
made sense.
The policy that made sense
was stated by Secretary Ache
son a year ago when he said:
I'VE must not seize the un-
enviable position which the Rus
slams have carved out for them
selves. We must not undertake
to defect from the Russians to
ourselves the righteous anger
and the wrath and the hatred
of the Chinese people which will
develop. We must take the posi-
ton we have always taken, that
any one who violates the in
tegrity of China is the enemy
of China and is acting con-
trary to our interests. That is
the first and greatest rule in
American policy toward Asia. +"
Much has happened since Mr..
Acheson said that. Much water
and blood-has flowed over
the dam. While holding our
ground on the field of battle
against Mao's troops, we have
little by little been giving up
any appeal we may hope to have
so far as the masses of Chinese
people are concerned. Now Mr..
Rusk seems to be saying that
we are prepared to throw them
into the arms of the Russians
by entering into their civil war
on the side of the regime they
have repudiated. We are Offer
ing them the full fruits of the
Knowland Taft Macarthur
thinking. And offering our
Evening star., 1951-05-24

fire arrangement was being
readied for transmission to Pei
ping Gen. Macarthur made an
unofficial statement in Tokyo,
urging the Red commander in
the field to come and discuss
with him conditions to end the
fighting in Korea. This, it is
now admitted, contributed more
than any other of the supreme
commanders "indiscretions" to
his abrupt removal.
What irked Washington and
some of our allies in the United
Nations more than the threat
of reprisals against China it
SELF. was his statement to the
enemy that the settlement would
be based on realizing the politi-
cal objectives of the United Ma
tions, which had remained un-
changed from the original di-
receives for unifying the penin-
sula.
Apparently, Gen. Macarthur
had in mind the directions sent
to him by the United Nations
last June, soon after the North
Korean army attacked South
Korea. He failed to realize that
in the interim, particularly after
the intervention of the Chinese
Communists on the side of the
North Koreans, there had been
change of heart among some
members of the U. N. which
participated in the campaign
and which had much to say
about the political and military
conduct of the war.
Press dispatches from Tokyo,
which carried Gen. MacArthur's
demand on the Red commander,
added-and it was cleared by the
censors-that Gen. Macarthur
told the world diplomats that in
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1951-12-27
CALL FOR BIDS

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SionerS Of Big Horn county will
receive sealed proposals at the
regular meeting on Thursday,
Jan. 3. 1852, up to two O'Clock
of said day, for the burial of
poor, for the calendar year 1852,
said proposals to include the
cost of caSketS, burial robes,
digging of grave, embalming,
delivering of the bodies and
mileage.
Specifications of caskets may
be obtained from the county
clerk. A good and sufficient
bond in an amount to be fixed
by the board and approved by
the board to be furnished by
the successful bidder.
The board reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
Dated at Hardin, Montana,
this 3rd day of December, 1851.
Harry E. Cox, Clerk
pub. Dec. 6, Is, 20, I'D
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NOTICE For BIDS

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by the Board OF County Com
missioners of Big Horn County,
Montana, that the Board Of
County Commissioners of Big
Horn County, Montana, will, on
Monday the 9th day of January,
1852, at 200 O'clock P. M. of
said day, at the Commissioners
room of the Court House of Big
Horn County, Montana, receive
bids at Public Auction for the
leasing of any and all interest
which Big Horn County, Mon
tana, may have in and to the
lands hereinafter described, for
oil and gas purposes. The in
tereSt of, Big Horn County,
M ontana, in and TO- said
n DIS consists of mineral
rights reserved by Big Horn
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pursuant to conveyance made
by Tax Deeds and otherwise,
wherein a percentage of the
mineral rights were reserved by
Big Horn County, Montana, and
such other oil and gas interest
IN and to said lands that Big
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own at the date of said bid.
The County reserves the right
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re-adVertise said lands for bids
at another time. and likewise
reserves the right to lease said
lands to the highest and best
bidder. No representation is
made by Big Horn County,
Montana, to the amount of oil
and gas rights owned by Big
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to said lands and all bidders
will bid at their own risk.
The lands herein referred to
are particularly described as
follows, to-Wit:
Township 2South, Range 80 East
M.P.M., Section /: Lots 1-12
Inclusive, SRNWA S1aNEA,
Section 9: Lots 1-8 Inclusive,
SRNEA, ShNWA, Section 8:
Lots 1-8 Inclusive, ShNWA,
SRNEA, Section 4: Lots 1-8
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SRNWA, SRNEA, Section 6:
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SRNWA,
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East, Section 26: SH,
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East, Section 30: WE, Section
81: WRNWA,
Township ? South, Range 80
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Ssdks u, sE14sWA, Section
20: ERNEA, NEASEA, Sec
%: WhSEA, SWA, Section
80: EK2, Section ri: SWA-
NWA, Section %: ERNEA, -
Township 4 South, Range 80
East, Section 4: Lots 2-3-4,
SW ANEA, SRNWA, SWM-
SWA, Section S: Lot 1, SINE,
ERSEA, Section g: NRNWA,