The daily record., 1951-12-03
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A REAL PEACE


Viscount Jowitt, speaking in the
House Of Lords. made this COM
ment on peace in Korea.
a.. 1t must be real peace. If
a cessation of fighting in Korea
were to be followed by fighting on
a large scale in Indo- China, Malay,
or Hongkong we should not have
gained anything. The opposition
would support the government in
their policy in Egypt. They agreed
that the Sudanese must not be
handed over to the tender mercies
Of the Egyptians as. some years ago.
the Czechs were handed over to
the mercies of Hitler"
Apparently every country in the
world is important except China
and Korea. Lord Jowitt is not
bothered with them although many
Of his countrymen have been killed
in those countries both in war and
by atrocities.
The truce in Korea is as un-
military as the war has been. It
is not even a cease-fire. 1t is ex-
tremely difficult to analyze quite
what it is. Why should it have
taken nearly five months of nego-
tiations during which the Chinese
communists built up their forces
for the next phase of the war?
It is interesting that Lord Jo-
witt objects to the Sudanese being
handed over to the tender mer-
cies of the Egyptians" but no men,
ton is made of handling the whole
China over to the tender mercies
Of the Russians. And while II
seems to the Noble Lord altogether
wrong to have given the Czechs to
Hitler, he is not at all excited over
the Czechs now being enslaved to
Stain.
The logic is of the order intro
duced by President Roosevelt when
he decided that he could distinguish
between good and bad dictator
That formula has got us into most
Of our difficulties, for the goodness
Of Stain proved itself disaster.
It was formula based upon per-
sonalities rather than upon princi-
Piles; upon blamor rather than
upon ideals of life.
actually this country does not
know where it stands in this Ko-
rean situation. Are we still in the
q. Ms police action there and are
We going to forget our 100000
casualties and our nearly 10000
dead? What are we to do about
our prisoners Of war, those alive
or those killed in the atrocities?
Are we to sign off and forget?
There are those who feel that
we must sooner or later make
peace with Russia and that the
sooner the better. Therefore, they
would accept peace on Russia's S
terms if those are the only terms
ON which Russia will make peace.
They are willing to accept the
status quo as Stain has estab-
lished, Stain will behave hence
forth; Russian imperialism will
end.
The compound that produces this
solution is not within any range
of facts. Since 1898, Russian i'm
perialism has steadily increased her
territory until it now runs from
the Pacific to the Elbe and has an
increased population for 10000. :
900 to 800,000.000. Why should
Soviet Russia stop now? BY what
logic are we to convince ourselves
that the limits of empire have
been reached?
Suppose the United States were
to withdraw from Korea, where
should We be? Obviously back tc
June IS. 1850. when we entered
upon this adventure of a police
action on behalf of the United
Nations. If that is all we have beer
fighting for during this year anc
o half, what have we actually ac-
complished by the huge loss of life
limb and mind? If there was no.
thing to accomplish, why did thi.
country ever go into the Korean
enterprise? Was it to safeguard
Japan? If so. can Japan be pro.
tected with the maritime province.
Of Siberia, Korea and Manchuris
in Russian hands?
The point is that every situation
requires analysis of the facts anc
the problems involved. The phrase
playing by ear" may be salts.
factory in honky-tonk but it will
not serve in understanding a com.
plicated historic situation. It may
pc amusing to improvise but wher
that costs human life-Americar
life-a surer approach is necessary
The peril to US now is not that
the Korean war will continue OF
end, but that we do not know
what we are doing or why we are
doin git. And If we act SO con-
fusedly in Korea, are we actinf
more wisely in Iran, in Egypt. ol
even in Western Europe?
In word. the United State,
needs a guiding foreign policy
philosophy with sharp arrow.
pointing to specific goals.
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King delivered the speech but
toned it down with improvised
changes as he went along. As a
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