Show S C Despite Cocktail Commentators Commentators' Ag 41 Worst May Be on Way for Yank By Fred Sparks I Chicago Dally HolI ally sews Iro WITH ITH A U U. S S. S DIVISION S SOMEWHERE 0 i E V HER E IN KOREA March 27 27 1 I have been along the front near the parallel parallel par par- par par-I during the last 72 hours I speaking to G. G I specked Ls-specked s specked with I mud like measles cases cases and and to worried generals For once G. G Is and generals I I agree that this is the situation I 1 L 1 The war is not nearing an end 2 2 We have made a serious perhaps fatal error in slowing I down just lust a little bit south of oC North Korea 3 The stall is giving the Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese a chance to regroup They will soon once more be down upon us with superior body power Grim Barroom Brawl This the field conviction that Korea will continue to be a playground playground playground play play- ground for misery contradicts the many hopeful Harrys and cocktail commentators who issue Peace Its It's Near from martini lined foxholes m in Washington and Lake Success A young lieutenant scraping the ooze off his beard heard said said- It ISas is isas isas as if you were fighting a guy in m ina ina ma a barroom brawl Although he was sworn to fight you to the end you stop slugging him when he slips to the deck So he has hasa a few more snorts and just and just when youre you're off base base he he pops you again with a beer stein stem That's just what is going to happen happen happen hap hap- pen here The lieutenants lieutenant's grim outlook is certainly supported by intelligence intel intel- officers whose job is to toI I guess what the enemy will do I the better to kill him when he i does it No Olive Branches They base their gloom on reports reports reports re re- re- re ports from 1 our airborne fly- fly spies 2 probing foot and tank lank patrols 3 various Koreans who slip through the lines Their summing up up- Maos Mao's s mobsters taking advantage of oC our pause to refresh themselves are arc moving down from North Korea in our direction carrying guns not olive branches The Chinese soldiers are being told by their political soothsayers soothsayers sooth sooth- sayers that soon there will be a thumping counterattack and that this time it will be needled by Uncle Joe Stalin's Red Re and nice new wrapped cellophane-wrapped I I tanks made in Leningrad I IThe iThe The commissars also assure the I Chinese who have seen umpteen thousands of or t the their It e i r buddies rubbed out by firepower made in Detroit Detroit- We have proved that man for man we are arc better warriors warriors war war- I than the Yanks There are arc more of us so when we get proper I gear the Yanks will go splash into the sea The fact fart that Maj 1 Gen Matthew Matthew Mat Mat- thew Ridgway is rough-riding rough runners ridge for diplomatic reasons reasons reasons rea rea- sons is an awful gamble gamble gamble-a a gamble gamble gam gain ble hie with our lives I I If the Chinese now stay on onI their side of Ko Korea those who I believe our adventure here I Ibe be limited will jig with jo joy Y b shout I l told you so so li If counterattack more of our will die than would have E EIf t if we had k kept ept right on goin h You can make your own n zombie brew and predict when we will be Wrinkled brows around I figure about two more wee One advantage of the theline theline theT T line refusal to prepare for p pi rl rland and fleshpots of Tokyo ft I Toledo Ohio is that all h 11 hi i stand ready for a new fu fur r i I bayonets foxholes deepened intentions This time no one will b bI be be I and that helps i f |