Evening star., 1951-05-05

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In Accord with Action.
Now, General, would you care to m
give your observations as to whether o.
Or not the action in taking this o.
matter up to apply an embargo was 81
expeditions under the circum- I
stances? Isl
Gen. MacArthur-I am entirely
in accord with the action they are
taking. think it is much too late r,
II think it should have been taken o
from he very beginning. A
Senator Knowland-I would like y
to ask, General - you mentioned e
yesterday that there had been for
lWarded to you and to this Govern IS
lment certain information from the II
American consul general at Hong K
Kong which related to the ship lr
ment of strategic materials out of
Hong Kong alone to Communistl
China. was not certain whetherIi
or not you indicated just what type.
You have given the overall figure, II
but I am not certain whether youlee
indicated the types Of strategic
material. I wonder if you could
supply that for the record at this
point.
Gen. MacArthur-I have that re-
port here. >. This is a very COM
pendious list. I don't believe the :
committee would want to hear the
entire list. 1t consists Of many
chemicals: Ammonium chloride, sui
phate, arsenic acid, and so on-a
whole page of those: instruments
and accessories: electric meters,
wires, various apparatus of that
sort; radio parts: radio sets, tele-
phone sets, transformer, wire re-
corders; under machinery and
fuels: ball and roller bearings,
drills, and electric drills, electric ;
motors, hammers, metal tools, span
ners, pliers, and so on; minerals: !
asphalt, asbestos, coal tar; medl-
cines of various sorts;
! Metals: Aluminium scrap, ingotS,
bars; brass plates, bars; copper wire, !
iron plates, iron nails. high-speed
Steel lead sheets, ingotS; silicon
steel sheets, steel bars, welding rods,
zinc sheets, and so on; miscella-
neous: boiler materials, cameras,
cement, fertilizers; laboratory equip
ment: microscopes, rubber, rubber
accelerators; petroleums: diesel oils,
fuel oils, gasoline, grease, kerosene,
lubricants, paraffinS, and so on.
Aids Reds Substantially.
Senator Knowland-General ].
I would like to ask whether it is
your Judgment that such material
would have been of substantial as
sistance to the Communist force
opposing our troops and the other
United Nations troops in Korea,
and to some extent almost as val
: liable as actual munitions of war
:: Gen. Macarthur - There is no
question about it, especially petro-
leum, gasoline, and things of that
sort. 1t is the very essence OF the
!. movement of an army and armed
troops.
Senator Knowland - Now. gen.
eral, at the same time, in this
mornings paper and carried by all
the press associations. was the
statement that indicated that Gen.
Macarthur did not let the Central
E. Intelligence Agency come in until
after Gen Walter Bedell Smith,
director of the CIA, went to Tokyo
and talked to him about it.
Was there any prohibition against
the operation of the CIA. so far as
you have knowledge, in your the
ater while you were theater COM
mander?
: Gen. MacArthur-That statement |
is all tommyrot Every possible as
sistance has been given by me to
the Central Intelligence Agency.
:. The only thing I insisted upon
was that the Central Intelligence
Agency, when they came into the
theater, would not act surreptitious-
lily so they would coordinate with
: my own intelligence. have given
them every possible assistance.
Senator Knowland - Now, gen.
eral, in August of 1850, . you
testified yesterday that you made
a visit to Formosa. I would like to
: ask whether that visit was known
5 to your superiors in Washington.
: Gen. MacArthur-My visit was
7 not only known but approved by
Washington. 1t was really caused
by Washington. l was charged with
the defense of Formosa. At that
T time I was heavily engaged in Ko-
rea. But for 10 days before my
, visit, I got series of messages
, from the Joint Chiefs of Staff eX-I
| pressing the gravest concern about
, the situation there. And in spite
of the pressure of the Korean cam
paign and other things, decided
, to go down and make the recon-
, naissance myself and reported that
fact.
Decided to Go Himself.
There was a message came after
I reported it and it had been ap-
proved, that some one, I think it
! was the State Department, would
. prefer some officer other than my
self to go down there. But as I was
the responsible officer and was
charged with the defense, I decided
to go myself.
Senator Knowland-On the 23d
of December, 1949, the State De-
Ipartment issued confidential
memorandum to their various rep
resentatives overseas, which said
among other things that Formosa
has no special military significance,
and that Formosa had no strategic |
value.
! 1t says: Largely because
of mistaken popular conception of
it's strategic Importance to United
States defenses in the Pacific.
I have asked for the full text of
1.-THE document on several occasions
and it has never been supplied. 1t
is one of the documents, Mr. Chair
man, v-''i7h roo"ested that you get
I fror' apartment. I
wo' to the best of
you my time have
Iyor Department of
Sta artment of Ma
Ition2. a3a that YOU believed /,