| Show I Import port of Statement MccArthur MacArthur Asks Okeh To Bomb Manchuria B By y Phil Phi som Newsom United Pros Staff Correspondent Gen Douglas MacArthur in effect ef ef- feet has asked the United Nations for permission to bomb Manchuria In his announcement that the fighting in Korea marks marls the start of an entirely new war he states the question clearly when he says This situation repugnant as it may be poses issues which must find their solution within the councils councils councils coun coun- of the United Nations and chancelleries of the world Cloaked in his statement also is his apparent belief that like it or not we now are arc fighting fighting- China CRina c ina I and that the matter of Chinese volunteers in Korea now no longer enters enter into the question The disheartening turn of events in Korea points up fears which have been felt in Europe all along and particularly since the start of our ill-fated ill offensive in Korea last week Both the French and the British have feared we and we-and and they along with us would us-would would be dragged into World War Var III before before before be be- I fore we are ready for r it They feared that an offensive in in Korea before all avenues of negotiation lion had been explored by bythe bythe bythe the United Nations might be the springboard to launch such a war with the hordes of Russia as well as China arrayed against us MacArthur apparently feels there no longer is anything anything- he can cando cando cando do to assure China of our good intent that intent that originally at least we had no intention of crossing crossing- the Korean border into Manchuria J It is said in Tokyo that his now- now famous promise to have American GIs G Is home by Christmas was designed to reassure the Chinese that we had no intention of staying stay stay- I ing in Korea once the job there was done and to let lct American soldiers know they had a limited job to do II |
