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Show The Senator Reports To The People Senator Arthur V. Watkins Tlir-rc is only one tiling to talk about in Washington Ofncral Douglas MacArthur. After the first few liours of ( 'iiiigressional debate and national clamor over the -neral's dismissal liy Tres-ident Tres-ident Truman, it became apparent that the fundamental issue was going- to lie United States foreign policy in the Far Fast.' No one questions the right of the president to remove re-move General MaeArtlmr. f believe everyone will agree vasion of China or Manchuria by U. S. troops. What he did 3sk for was permission to use the allied air force to break up the marshall ng yard;, factories md troop concentration points in Manchuria from which Red China carries, on its fight igainst the United Nations in Korea. It is imposs:ble to fully dis-":us.3 dis-":us.3 this issue in the space allotted al-lotted for this report. I hope lie American people in the weeks to come will carefully weigh all the facts, disregard all opinionated propaganda, and arrive at a decis on which will be so universal that those whe wide the destiny of this great nation will be forced to adheit to the desires of the people whom they represent. with the , observation that the administration removed the general in order to carry out tne Truman-Acheson line, which in turn was dictated by the British Left-wing government. General MacArthur, on the other hand, apparently had two things in mind. First, he was primarily interested in achieving achiev-ing a military victory over the Communists. He wanted this victory at the earliest possible moment and at the least cost in American lives and other casualties. Secondly, he apparently appar-ently believes that Communism murt he contained and defeated in Asia, because he believed that a Russian victory there v.ould be fatal to U. S. and the free world. He attaches as much or more importance to this as the administration does to the necessity for protecting Europe from Communism. Admin stration policy, however, how-ever, appears to be entirely different. dif-ferent. Originally, President Truman announced that the U N goal was a united and independent indepen-dent Korea. Due to pressure from the British whose international inter-national trading might be jeopardized, jeop-ardized, and other U N members, mem-bers, it is becoming increasingly clear that the president will be satisfied, not with a united and independent Korea, but with a negotiated peace which will leave Korea split as it was when the North Koreans began their invasion of South Korea. Rumors are continuing to pour in concerning the terms of a poss.ble negotiated, or d p-lomatic, p-lomatic, settlement. Only last week, the administration rejected reject-ed a British request for recognition recog-nition of Red China. Obviously, it would be politically suicidal for the administration to accept such an offer at this particular time. I have no doubt but that the British and their friends will continue to press Uncle Sam for a settlement which will conform more nearly to Communist Com-munist desires, and at this stage it appears that the administration administra-tion will finally yield on this issue. General MacArthur's program pro-gram offered no appeasement to the enemy. He proposed their defeat utilizing all available resources re-sources of the allied powers, in- j eluding Nationalist China. He i made no proposal for a land in- ' |