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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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Spectator finds himself under
strong attack by a major in our air
force, a former citizen of Manning
and a very attractive personality
•when I knew him in this country. He
5cems to dissent so sharply from
what Spectator says about our pol
icy in Korea that he writes with a
degree of bitterness which surprises
me.
If Major Conant is fully satisfied
with our Government’s plan I have
no quarrel with him; we has nothing
but respect and admiration for our
fighting men, from General McAr
thur down to every private soldier.
I speak the mind of our country in
saying that. What I have criticised
sharply—and still criticise—is this:
We started something in Korea with
out adequate preparation; and our
policy so tied the hands of our men
in Korea that the Chinese swarmed
over like a never-ending stream
turned into a torrent. If this is not
true Major Conant must call most
of our newspapers and members of
Congress a lot of traitors. Unless our
Government failed to do its full part
how do we account for the strategic
retirements that had to be covered
by heavy naval bombardments?
Ho one has blamed the fighting
forces for any want of complete suc
cess. Would Major Conant say that
I am wrong? If so ,let tbe Major ex
plain the retirement from the North
ern boundary of Korea to points far
to the South.
What is the reason given for our
fighting in Korea? That Korea is a
victim of Communist aggression and
that this nation intended to stop
4, Red M aggression. That being the
program of Mr. Truman why didn’t
we stop those Chinese even by bomb
ing and bombarding their ports and
concentrations?
I hope the Major is following this
carefully. I happen to be talking
“tacts,” not indulging in emotional
spasms. But since I have had Majors
serving under me I am making due
allowance for the strain under which
Major Conant must be operating.
If our country intended to curb
Red aggression our State Depart
ment should have had more reliable
information so as to prevent the
swarming Chinese from taking His by
surprise. Am I wrong in that, Ma-|
jor? If there was no surprise thenj
the President and the Congress and
the Defense department have let us
believe (hat. Because all of us be-1
lieve in the gallantry of our men we!
readily accept the explanation that
the fault was not their’s. Am I not
right so far, Major?
Since our nation intended to stop
the "Reds” it should have been ready
to stop the Red Chinese. We believe
that our men did all (hat fleah and
blood, brains and devotion, could do.
Am I right still? What, theh, was
the trouble? We didn't send enough
men. Why didn't we send the men?
Did we send all the men and sup
plies. all the planes, to Korea, to
support our men there? Doesn’t the
Major know that we have a force
in Europe and in England? Doesn't
the Major know that while our for
ces in Korea were fighting valiantly
in the snow against overpowering
foes we were building our forces in
Europe because the chief enemy to
be feared is Russia and our main
strategy is to prevent Russia from
ever-running Europe? Doesn’t the
Major know that? His knowledge of
strategy and other military consider
ations may be far superior to mine,
as he says, but I am giving the facts
as 'known in Washington and
throughout the United States. The
Major may have more facts in Ja
pan and Korea, but I am giving the
facts as known here.
Now since we have not been able
to give full support to our fighting
services in Korea because of the man-
ace of Russia in Europe why did we
not stop Russia or stop the Chinese'*
And J’U ask the Major if he knows
(why we are so aroused today, many
months after our retirement in Ko
rea?
My solicitous interest is all for our
fighting men in Korea, Major Con
ant included, of course. We on this
side of the ocean, including most of
the Congressmen, think our course
has not been a creditable course,
politically, biit we admire the men
over there who have suffered and
srtill suffer in the name of America.
I have not tried to measure bad
words, ugly language, with the Ma
jor. That would be easy, for nothing
is so easy as to say nasty things. I
salute Major Conant as a gallant
gentleman and think he is suffering
from eating too much crab-meat.
ground. Some have greater riches
than we have, but America has al
ways enjoyed such freedom of op
portunity that the human spirit, hu
man genius, and human will to do
have blossomed and had free course.
That most extraordinary man, the
Apostle Paul, suggested a bold course
to Timothy, that the great message
should be proclaimed to all, not ar
rogantly, but in the confidence of its
supernal character of saving grace.
We have a great country because
we have had great foundations,
great people, and a nation founded
on the Bible. In the wondrous de
velopment of our America the pre
vailing tone has been one of recog
nition of our dependance on Jehov
ah. So, like the Apostle, we may
speak the faith and the truth that
are in us, the things that lift men
above the hopelessness of life in
many other countries. These things
have to be done with the appropriate
approach, for we cannot use the same
approach to all people. But the spir
it will be the same. Not the spirit
of fear, but of power; not an aggres
siveness that offends everybody, but
the spirit of full assurance, with
sympathy, patience, tolerance, com
passion. We must learn how to live
in peace and quiet in mutual for
bearance and trust.
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