Show GRASSROOTS Chinese Reds Laughed L at af MacArthur Across River By Wright A. A Patterson HOW UTTERLY FUTILE would be any United Nations armed force in preventing the suppress ing acts of aggression was amply demonstrated by the Korean deba debao dc cle cleo It was not any lack of ability on the part of MacArthur that caused that result It was not any lack lock of 01 valor on the part of United Nations' Nations armed forces It forces it was the delay and lack of ot decision on the part of an international debating society It was a case of ot too many cooks spoiling the broth It Jt could not change its instructions to Its field commander without debate The first Instance of the Inability In In- In Inability ability to decide came ame wh when n the United Nations forces s reach the tho parallel l. l MacArthur 1 had In Instructions In- In not lIot to go 10 beyond that line It ft took look b better than a week to get ret t those h b o 0 I a e instructions changed d. d That more than a w week k of or delay deJay gave rave the North Koreans Ko Ko- scans reans time Ume to reorganise their shattered divisions to get ret new y Arms arm and munitions from the Jt lied Iced d Chinese arm army on the Man Man- border It prevented the total distinction of the North Korean army in North Korea The Job had to be done aU all allover over again and before the Manchurian Man Man- border was reached The next stopping point was wal the Yates Val river Just north of the Yalu river in to Manchuria a vast valt army of ot Red Bed Chinese Chi Chi- neat flee was wa bein being assembled Into U. U its camp was being poured vast vat numbers number en of ol transport vehicles and tanks Great Orea dumps dump wert were being erected There was no slightest slight slight- est eat question as to the purpose of it all all The United Nations had bad an adequate supply of airplanes and bombs Those planes and bombs could have destroyed the transport vehicles and tanks They could have blown up op the ammunition dumps and scattered the million men the camps contained But Bat MacArthurs MacArthur's MacArthurs Mac Mac- Arthurs Arthur's Instructions would not permit the firing of ot so 10 much as asa asa asa a rifle across that river The planes at his command could neither fly Ily beyond the south bank of the Yalu or drop so 10 much as a afire afire afire fire cracker on the amounts of military supplies Both Doth the North Koreans and the Red Chinese could stand tand on the north bank of that dividing stream and thumb their noses at the impatient United Nations troops troop's on the south bank Nothing could be done about that situation unless and until lib MacArthur MacAr cAr cAr- thur thu received new instructions lie He waited as he was ordered to todo todo todo do while the discussion went on and on and then came the attack That Red fled army with its transport vehicles its tanks its munitions crossed the Yalu VIlu the debating society so clety had talked too long and the United Nations' Nations forces in Korea paid the penalty for tor that delay What happened in K Korea 0 rea would be the he Inevitable result la in au any case eale where the activities ties of a U United Nations force came under UDder the orders orden and directions di dl of an au International de do bating baling society representing 53 nations all of 01 which Insist on being heard It creates an Impossible Impossible Impossible Im Im- possible condition for lor a field commander just as it did for lor MacArthur l It is a safe lafe bet that he would not again undertake such luch a Job as was assigned to him by President Truman Tru man When the time and nd conditions were urgent both the President and Secretary Acheson failed to urge speed in arriving at a United Na Na- lions decision It savored of more consideration for tor the Chinese Reds of ot which we have had entirely too much in the past There should hould be no place for tor any who had a part in such uch actions in the American government It has cost the lives of many thousands thou thou- sands of 01 Americans fighting under the flag and the instructions of the United Nations In future we should hould have no part in any armed activities that operate under the orders and direction of the members of an International debating society Such bosses do not keep pace with military necessities K t- t The Tb leaders 0 of organIzed sam d labor like Uke leaders of other segments of ot the American people proved themselves themselves them them- selves selfish in their demands for 1 those they 7 lead and the general era public KM turned on them as t turned on capital when it Ignored the in crests of ot tb the people The people will turn on the farmers If It they Ignore th the general welfare and keep on oo pushing prices of food tood up |