Show ABOVE THEN THE THEBy N LO LOI I O OBy I By LYTLE nULL HULL HAVEN'T discussed the WE matter personally with Stalin I I but we are certain just the same that he has not the slightest intention tion Hon of stopping the Korean war un- un unless unless less he can replace it with some some some-i i thing just as wearing upon our nerves and resources All AU the talk i about the return prisoners is just so much ballyhoo If we accepted their conditions and forcibly returned re re- returned turned all prisoners the tho war would doubtless continue just jest the same same same- alter after a truce which t YoNd wo ild last long enough fo for the Red Chinos Chines to o further fur fur- ther er strengthen r their torce and positions positionS' It is possible of course course that the Kremlin would pr prefer l r to move the Chinese forces to south east Asia and to allow the Korean situation to simmer to simm simmer to r to tobe be renewed after they had driven the French out of Indo-China Indo had forced the British to relinquish Kong Hong-Kong and had taken the balance of south east Asia into their fold But unless they have some such move in mind they will keep the Chinese se hammering hammering ham- ham mering at us as long as that nation can stand it If the above is the case case and and it seems logical the most obvious solution would be bel to so punish the Chinese that they would be compelled compelled com com- t to quit before the people themselves rebelled against further sacrifices This is not impossible in a nation like China McArthur l believed believed this and wished to act upen upon up up- on en that assumption but the Truman Tru- Tru man man man-Acheson Acheson combine soon put a atop top atop to any such constructive plan Of course there would be the risk of bringing Rus Russia ia into the war but the con census appears to be that Russia will start World War III Ill on her own time and that that that- scarcely any occurrence would force her hand Some risk must be taken unless bleed ourselves ourselves ourselves' we e are willing to 1 td to de death th on the Korean peninsula and this column is firmly of the opinion that General Eisenhower has already evolved some plan which may go far toward bringing this dreadful letting blood-letting to an end |