Evening star., 1951-06-14
Macarthur Charges Our Korean Policy Is Appeosement'
BY the Associated Pres.

a record crowd at Houston wei.
come parade.
His speech tonight at 8 pm
(CST) in a 70,000-seat football
stadium will give the deposed Fal
Eastern commander an opportu.
nifty to develop these argument!
he voiced on arriving in Texas
yesterday:
/. United States policy makers
are guilty of appeasement in Ko'
rea-appeasement that could leae
to war with Russia.
2. The administration is guilty
OF moral weakness" in talking o.
q peace settlement.
The biggest crowd ever seen il
Houston turned out-but cheeret
only with marked restraint-tt
see Gen. Macarthur arrival pa.
rade late yesterday.
Crowd Estimated at 100000.
Mayor Oscar Holcombe esti-
mated the crowd at around 440,.
600, almost double the previous
record 250,000 drawn by President
Roosevelt in 1886: Other estimates
ran considerably lower.
Gen. Macarthur made his ap-
peasement accusation from the
steps of the State Capitol in Aus
tin. About 10000 Texans listened
as the 71-year-old general de-
clared Americas first line of de-
fense is on the Yalu River at the
Manchurian border and not the
Elbe River in Europe.
The general has three more
Texas speeches to make-at San
Antonio and Dallas tomorrow, and
at Fort Worth Saturday. Then
his chartered Constellation will
take him back to New York. On
Gen. MacArthur'S schedule today
was visit to a veterans hospital
and drive to nearby Galveston
., Amazed and Concerned.
A partial text of Gen. MacAr.
thurs Austin speech follows:
I have been amazed, and deeply
concerned, since my return. to OBJ
serve the extent to which the orr
entation OF our national policy
tends to depart from the tradi.
tional courage, vision ano forth.
rightnesS which has animated ane
guided our great leaders of the
past, to be now largely influenced
If not indeed in some instance:
dictated from abroad and domi.
mated by fear of what others ma!
think or others may do. Never
before in our history can prece'
dent be found for such sub.
ordination of policy to the opin.
ions of others with a minimum
regard for the direction of oul
own national interest. Never be.
fore have we geared nationa
policy to timidity and fear. Tht
guide, instead, has invariably beer
one of high moral principle ant
the courage to decide great issuel
on the spiritual level of what il
right and what is wrong. Yet, il
Korea today, we have reached
that degree of moral trepidatioT
that we pay tribute in the blooc
of our sons to the doubtful belle
that the hands of a clustering po'
tential enemy may in some way bt
thus stayed Munich. and many
other historical examples. have
taught us that diplomatic appease
ment but sows the seeds of future
conflict. Yet, obliviouS to theS'
bloody lessons. we now practice {
new and yet more dangerous form
of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES or
the battlefield whereunder we sof
ten our blows, withhold our power
and surrender military advantages
in apparent hope that in som'
nebulous way be so doing a po
tential enemy will be coerced tt
desist from attacking us.
Warns of Appeasement.
In justification for this extra
ordinary action it is pleaded b.
those responsible for the condi
tion of our national defense tina
we are not prepared to fight.
cannot accept such an estimate
I believe that, much as we abho
war and should do anything hon
orable to avoid it, our countr
has the inherent strength to fac
and defeat any who may attack
I should be recreant, moreover, t
my obligations of citizenship di
I fail to warn that the policies O
appeasement on which we are no,
embarked carry within themseNe
the very incitation to war agains
us. If the Soviet does strike it Wi
be because of the weakness W
now display rather than tn
strength we Of right shoul
display.
II, however, we be so weak il
fact, that we must cover befor
the verbal establishments o
others, the responsibility for sucl
weakness should be a matter O
the gravest public concern. Who
we should ask, is responsible TO
the reduction of our militar
strength from the greatest o.
earth at wars end to that the
now estimate is inadequate eve
to support our moral commit
ments? Who plunged us into tn
Korean war and assumed othe
global commitments in the fac
of such alleged weakness withou
reckoning and being read to NEE
their potential consequences? VIII
is responsible for so grave pas
failure which has brought our Ma
ton to so, ignominious pass ths
we must plead weakness befor
our fellow nations? -.
Tribute Paid in Blood.
OF this we may be sure. TIL
Soviet's moves. should it actuall
want war, will be dictated by il
own assessment of the relativit
of military force involved, actus
and potential. 1t will not be S
much influenced by the destruc
tion it believes itself capable {
inf1icting upon us, as by the pun
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