Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-29
Rhee Tours Shrines;;
Lawmakers Cool 10
His Plea for War
By John v. Horner

IT'D TIGo IVI VU
By John v. Horner
Syngfnan Rhee took time out
today from his military and
economic discussions with Gov
eminent officials to pay respects
to the memory of George Wash
ington, Abraham Lincoln and
Americas war heroes.
The 79-year-old President OF
Korea devoted the morning to
a tour of national shrineS, after
yesterdays blunt appeal to Con-
gress for American participation
In a war on Red China. The
morning schedule inclu d d
wreath-laying ceremonies at
Mount Vernon. the Lincoln Me-
mortal and the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier in Arlington
Cemetery.
Further Talks Today.
President Rhee and his staff
of advisers were invited to re-
turn to the White House this
afternoon for. further talks on
military and economic matters.
II this phase of the discussions
can be concluded today. Presi-
dent Eisenhower hopes to leave
early tomorrow for a long week
end at Camp David. his Catoctin
Mountain resort near Thurn1ont,
Md.
There was nothing to indicate
DIR. Rhee had won any appreci-
able support in Congress for his
proposal to attack and destroy
Communist armies on the Chi
nese mainland as a means OF
solving the worldwide Commu-
mist problem.
Members of the Senate and
House expressed great personal
admiration for the dauntless lit
tie Korean leader but they were
generally reluctant to indorse his
program.
Emissions Red Defeat.
The visiting President con-
tended that, with United States
Air Force and Navy help. 2 mil
lion anti-Communist Asians can
defeat the Red armies in China
and bring that country back to
the side of the free world. The
anti-CommuniSt troops would be
Koreans and Chinese National
lists.
If Soviet Russia entered such
q war, he said, that would be all
to the good. because then Ameri-
can planes would be justified in
destroying the centers of Rus
sian production before Soviet n.y.
drogen bombs are stockpiled.
President Rhee said it would
be unnecessary to use any Amer
lean foot soldiers in the war he
emissions.
With the defeat of the Red
China forces, DR.. Rhee commended
the world problem Of commu-
nism would be settled
Wiley Avoids Question. az ,
A typical comment came from
Chairman Wiley of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. a
reporter asked whether he ia
yored sending American planes
and naval forces for an invasion
of the Chinese mainland.
ct listened with great interest
to a great man and a grea,
patriot who made great speech
for his country" said the Sen
ator When it was suggested tna'
he had not answered the ques-
ton, Senator Wiley added:
81 know it." He made no FUR
Their statement.
Senator Smith. Republican, -o1
New Jersey, chairman OF the
Senate Foreign Relations Sub
committee on the Far East, sale
this:
eff Indo-China and Wet Nan
had had the courage. soul ano
spirit of Syngman Rhee, the
Communists would have beer
defeated there"
McCarran Doubtful
Senator McCarran, Democrat
of Nevada a supporter OF thu
Chang Kai-shek Nationalist
government. said he was not
certain he could back DR.. Rhee's
proposals. He added there might
be other more effective ways te
make use of the free worlo
forces.
Other congressional. comment
included the following:
Senator George, Democrat, o
Georgia, ranking Democrat OF
the Foreign Relations Commit
tee: st wouldn't want to stat
an opinion"
Senator johnson, Democrat
of Colorado: II am not con
WINGED his program is in the hes
interests of the United States"
Senator Case, Republican, 9
South Dakota: HE stirs ad
miration for his courage bu
I'm afraid it is not so simple a
1t sounds in his address"
Senator Gore, Democrat. G
Tennessee: II shall await wit
interest the reaction OF Presl
dent Eisenhower and Secretar
Dulles"
Senator Jackson, Democrat. c
Washington: DR.. Rhee is Pre-
posing "a form of Unite
preventive war" which tn
United States obviously coul
not undertake. Guns. shlr
and planes are the least of OF
problems in the Far East. o.
big job is to convince the Poop
there we are on the side OF free
dom and independence, and or
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