Show f I Debate Arms Boycott M MOST OST IMPORTANT diplomatic debate of the Korean war has been going on backstage at the United Nations Nations namely namely an arms boycott of Red China So far our UN U.N. allies haven haven't t got around to voting to ban arms let alone an economic embargo However However However How How- ever it remains a fact that this is one of the most important steps to be taken against any aggressor Furthermore there is a long history history history his his- tory of diplomatic pussyfooting regarding regarding regarding re re- re- re garding this by our supposedly good pussyfooting friends friends pussyfooting that eventually eventual eventual- ly has landed them in war Here is some case history Pussyfoot No 1 was when the British undercut us in 1931 when Japan first firt fi t invaded Manchuria Issues almost identical to the Korean Korean Ko Ko- rean aggression were involved in Manchuria and the late Secretary of State Henry L L. Stimson saw them clearly He saw that Japan was sowing the first wild oats of aggression just as Russia is to today today today to- to day and that if she got away with one aggressive bite there would be more But Stimson never could get the British who had more at stake than we to cooperate When US U.S. Ambassador Cameron Cameron Cameron Cam Cam- eron Forbes would deliver dellver a note of protest the British ambassador ambassador ambassador am am- did likewise then dropped round to the Japanese foreign office an hour or two later to explain that Britain's note was merely to please the Americans and not to be taken taken taken tak tak- en seriously Pussyfoot No 2 was when President President President dent Roosevelt tried to organize an economic blockade of Japan In 1936 In order to stop further aggression aggression aggression ag ag- ag- ag against China By this time the British realized their 1931 mistake and went along with us But Roosevelt could not get the support of other European powers Hitler and Mussolini were too strong by that time and he also fa faded faced ed edthe the private opposition of Cordell Hull Pussyfoot No 3 came when Mussolini Mussolini Mus Mus- solin invaded helpless helpless helpless' Ethiopia This was one of the crudest cases of aggression the modern world has seen and the tottering League of Nations conscientiously tried to act But although an economic blockade was voted for the first time in history two things made it unsuccessful One was the exclusion of oil The big American and British oil companies pulled backstage wires managed to scare BritIsh British British Brit Brit- ish and American diplomats into permitting the continued shipments of oil to Mussolini l Without oil his fleet neet would have been paralyzed and his trucks could not have moved But wo we pussyfooted Pussyfoot No 4 is taking place right now In regard to Red China an obvious wanton aggressor in Korea While the British are the worst pussyfooters we in the USA U.S.A. including General MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur Mac- Mac Arthur himself have pulled our punches MacArthur for instance has permitted permitted permitted per per- a steady driblet of strategic materials to flow Into Red China from Japan From July to October 1950 he permitted in metals machinery and textiles to leave Japan for China From October October October Octo Octo- ber to January Jap exports to the Communists increased to Since MacArthur controlled all Jap exports this could have been stopped However the flow now of British goods entering China through Hong Kong is the most shocking shockIng shocking shock shock- ing scandal of the entire Korean Korean Ko Ko- rean war While American lives JIves are being snuffed out British millionaires are being made overnight Yet the state department has taken taken taken tak tak- en no tough steps such as a threat to cut off oU US U.S. economic aid to Britain as a means of stopping this trade Round Merry-Go-Round Robert Mack a senate elevator operator literally stepped into Senator Kefauver's shoes the other day The Tennessee worked so late that he had to dress for tor dinner in his office bolted out the door wearing dinner dress but brown shoes In the elevator he noticed his mistake traded shoes with Mack who had on black shoes and got to dinner on time Congratulations to Ira Hirschmann Hirschmann Hirsch Hirsch- mann and his radio station In New York for winning the Peabody Peabody Peabody Pea- Pea body award for good music Chinese Give U UIt Up It didn't get Into the press com com- but a small naval task force turned back a Chinese thrust down n the Korean east coast recent recent- ly The Chinese Communists sent two units to prod f for r a weak spot in the South Korean line that Is defending the east coast However two American cruisers and four tour destroyers hurled broadsides broadsides broad broad- sides all day into the attacking Chinese After 1000 rounds of devastating devastating dev dev- ship shore ship shore to-shore fire the Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese gave up |