The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-10-09

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hope for the best and prepare for
the worst"
He went on to hit at Truman
with this statement:
"But now listen to the man who
is decrying this 1945 position of
mine. In 1913, three years later
and after repeated instances of
Soviet duplicity, the same man
man said, I like old Uncle Joe
Stain. Joe is a decent fellow"
The he said "these particular
charges against me are false"
And he went on to give his own
plan for prosecuting the cold war
which he said was the only course
outside appeasement or "a stupid
ly aggressive attitude" that would
increase the risk of another world
war.
He proposed the United States
''use all means short of war" in
a huge psychological warfare pro-
gram backed by every agency and
resource of the nation.
This would call for meshing
every action and policy of the gov
eminent, he explained, adding if
this were done, it would mean:
1--WE shall no longer have a De-
partment of State that deals with
foreign policy in an aloof cloister;
Defense Department that makes
military appraisals in a vacuum:
a Mutual Security Administration
that spends billions overseas"
Eisenhower noted that the 3Sth
parallel passes just north of San
Francisco--'this line is invisible
in America, but in another land
(Korea) it is traced in blood"
And, while Korean news focused
on a breakoff of truce negotiations
and the Chinese Reds greatest at
tack in more than year, Eisen-
hover went on:
To-day this bloody lire marks
the .defense perimeter' Of our
country in that part Of Asia. Yet
scarcely more than two years age,
the present administration an
nounced its political decision that
the defense perimeter' of America
in that part Of the world was a
quite different line. That defense
line did not touch Korea but
ran through islands well off the
continental shore.
"Many an American family
knows only too well how history
has dealt with this policy decision
Of our government. The Commu.
nists fastened to exploit it. And
we Americans are still paying
dearly TO redeem il"
He said this decision was "po-
litical in nature" and was not
decision by the military. :
The military has never decid-
ed questions Of foreign policy" he
said. And if we are TO continue
to be free, the military never
will"
He insisted the Joint Chiefs OF
/ Staff in I947--while be still was
Army chief OF Staff--had made a
secret military appraisal of the
strategic importance of Korea in
event OF general war. In that APP
praiSal, the importance Of Korea
was minimized.
CAS- always" he said. "the Joint
Chiefs were careful to refrain
from political judgements that
were beyond their authority"
were beyond their authority"
Eisenhower said he couldn't
have foreseen then that three
years later the secretary Of state
would translate that strictly mill
tary appraisal for war conditions
into q peseetime political decision" =
and make il public.
Now, he said. . desperate adj
minissFation@ is using this military
assessment "as the excuse Tor the
political decision which il took
:. entirely on its own initiative.
Explaining what be meant by
psychological warfare. Eisenhower
said: "It would mean this: every
significant act OF government
should be 50 timed and 50 direct.
ed AZ a principal targrts and 50
related 20 other government ac-
tons. that il viii produce The max
inuFn effecs."
He said the present sdmlniSsra-
ton never had been able 10 grasp
the hail import II a psychological
effort PVT forth % a national
scale.
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