Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11


thousands of German prisoners of
war in violation of every humani-
] tartan concept and tradition; we
tailed to protest the murder by the
Soviet of the flower of the Polish
nation; and, even after victory had
been achieved, we continued to
supply the Soviet with quantities
OF war material, despite the clear
and lnescapable warnings of the
Soviet threat to future peace.
FlaYs Loss Of Chine
In the East we gave over to Sov-
let control the industrial resources
OF Manchuria, the area of North
Korea and the Kuriles pointed at
the heart of the Japanese home is
lands. We condemned our faithful
war time ally, the Chinese people,
to the subjugatiOn of Communist
tyranny. And, in the course of
these moves, we proceeded with
precipitate haste to divest ourselves
OF our own military strength. De-
spite the threat to our security then
clearly apparent, our executive
fiaunted and ignored the judgment
and will of the Congress which ap-
prOpriated funds for the expansion
of our air arm which he arbitrarily
refused to expend for such pur-
pose.
Small wonder indeed that from
the combination of these tragic
decisions and events, there occur
red a reversal of the balance of
world power such as history has
never before recorded.
Then, suddenly, with our mill
tary strength standing at possibly
the lowest relatively in history
our divisions in Japan reduced
from three to two regiments, our
regiments from three to two bat
taliOns, our battaliOns from three
to two mpanies-With our pro-
lection withdrawn from South Ko-
rea as a militarily indefensible
peninsula, we there and then plung-
ed our forces into war to defend it.
Few would take exception to the
impulse, howe. er idealistic, to sup
port the preservation of freedom
where we had done so much to i'm
plant the principles and spirit of
freedom, but it is fatal to enter
any war without the will to win
it. l criticize not the morality of
the decision, but it's Irresponsible
ity and Tecklessness.
We defeated the North Korean
armies; but, when the Communist
armies of China struck, our leaders
lacked the courage to fight to a
military decision, even though vic
tory was then readily within our
grasp-a victory which would not
only have discharged our commit
ment to the Korean people, but
which in the long run might we'll
have saved continental Asia from
Red domination. And, after dis
carding victory as the military OBJ
jective and thereby cOndemning our
forces to a stalemated struggle of
attritiOn and the Korean nation and
people to progressive obliteratiOn,
we again yielded to Communist in
trigue and entered into protracted
armistice negotiations even though
every lesson of experience had
clearly shown such negotiations to
be but the means whereby such an
enemy gains time to reinforce his
military capabilities.
Graveyard For Honor
While l have not been consult
ed with reference to Korea since
my retirement from active assign
ment Is months ago, l can unhesi-
tatingly say that a leadership
which by weakness and indecision
has brought about such a military
dilemma lacks the sOundness of
vision, the moral courage and the
resOlute will to resolve it. Yet,
resolved it must be, for we can
not long carry so intOlerable a
burden. We must have a leadership
capable of decision. as indecisiOn in
war is but the prelude to disaster.
No military problem is unsolvable.
Korea stands today as the hallOw-
ed graveyard for countless Ameri-
can dead. We must not let it be-
come as we'll a graveyard for Am
erican hope, American faith and
American honor
In Europe, and indeed through /
out the world, our foreign policy |
approach has been equally as vac
Hating and negative and, for the /
most part, sad indeed to relate, |
under the domination of others. /
We have yielded to selfish pres
sures both at home and abroad |
and, in so doing, have unduly di-
reCted the distribution of our
wealth into privileged channels,
have taken sides in international |
disputes which were fundamental |
ly none of our affair, and have en-
deavOred to impose our will on
other nations purely domestic
problems in an imperialistic man J
ncr. We have ignored traditional .
friends while shOwering our favors
on others, and we have lost that I
sense of judicial fairness which !
formerly characterized our rela-
tiOns abroad. In our preOccupatiOn
with Europe, we have tended to dis
card from our concern those great .
peoples of Asia and the Middle East .
who historically have sought not .
our wealth, but our friendship and
understanding. Our good neigh
Dor" policy with respect to the
peoples of Central and South Am
erica-Of greater strategic con-
Germs than all Others-has been
largely subOrdinated. Through the
paternalistic attitude which has
dominated our material assistance
we have promoted as much
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