Evening star., 1962-01-24

an Army officer was changed
from Christian" to peace
loving people" and a sentence
in a speech by Maj. Gen. A. M.
Kuhfeld, Air Force Judge Ad-
vocate General, last November
IL was crossed out. The sem
tence read: 1--WE are a Christian
Nation"
In the early part of 1861,
the subcommittee study shows,
references in a number OF
speeches to Communists" were
changed to read the Soviet
Sino bloc"
Later on in the year the
way of the censor became more
tortured and references to the
Soviet-Sino bloc were changed
to read "the Communists"
Early in the year, in a speech
prepared for delivery February
IA, before the Los Angeles
World Affairs Council (the
name of the speaker was not
listed, the following changes
were made:
The word war" to contest"
battles to "chanllenges," "real
war" to "a vital struggle" and
war" to struggle"
In May speech, Maj. Gen.
T. c. Darcy of the Army re-
ferred to Soviet Premier Khru-
shchev in several unflattering
comments. The references were
crossed out and the censor's
note said: Let's stay away
from Khrushchev for the time
being" The margin bore the
note Dept. of State" the study
said.
In another speech cited in
the study, Vice Admiral Robert
B. Pirie was asked to delete a
sentence: "KhruShchev said:
we will bury you.'" Similar
references in other speeches,
the study showed, were deleted.
When 1t. Gen. B. A. Schriever
of the Air Force referred to
the Khrushchev statement in
a May IT, 1861, speech, the
censor commented: HE has
denied that he meant this
literally"
LeMay Speech
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, now
Air Force Chief of Staff, had
a sentence in a speech last
April saying: SAC has the
capability to destroy the war
making capacity of any aggres-
Sor and to achieve victory"
The phrase land to achieve
victory" was stricken, the
study said.
A speech by another Air
Force officer, 1t. Gen. George
w. Mundy, last spring, con-.
tained this sentence: "In fact,
the big question of our day is
simply this, Will the future
world, that is. the emerging
world, be in our image, or will
it be in the image of world
communism" The censor's
comment: mo, we want people
to have the right and freedom
to choose own destiny"
Soon after he became Chief
of Naval Operations last August
succeeding Admiral Burke, Ad-
miral George w. Anderson, jr.,
submitted a speech containing
a sentence which said: Their
actions clearly demonstrate
that the leaders of the Sino-
Soviet bloc do not choose to
compete with us on an honor
able basis" The censors
changed it to read their ac-
tions too often belle their
words"
Censored Entirely
In addition to a speech that
was censored entirely, the sub
committee study found that an
other one of Admiral Rurke's
speecheS--this one before the
National Military, Industrial
and Educational Conference in
Chicago last April-was OBJ
jected to by the Defense De-
partment.
However, the subcommittee
said that "at Admiral Burke's
instance, the Department of De-
fense reversed its position" and
allowed him to make the speech.
The first seven and a half
pages of a speech by Rear Ad-
miral Charles Martell last
January was "deleted by the
State Department." the Senate
report said.
A speech by Gen. Decker last
January 80 to Army chaplains
was returned, the subcommittee
said, with this notation: This
general comment is offered:
Portions of the speech do not
conform to the tone and spirit
OF the inaugural address and
particularly the following
thought: Let both sides ex-
plore what problems unite us
instead of belaboring those