Show ECONOMIC it is almost impossible to exaggerate the potential seriousness of our military involvement with the chinese communists the fact that we are involved even though on a very limited scale as yet is one more example of mistaken guessing by top military men and diplomats it has been reliably re ported that our troops were halted brief briefly lly at the parallel because of the danger that the chin eles ees might move if we went on toward the manchurian korean bor ber then it is said the leaders including general macarthur told that in their estimation red china would not act the troops went forward as indeed they had to if north korean military force was to be destroyed but the experts were wrong and the red forces thronged thron ged across the border we are not formally at war with china or with anyone else but in these days it is 1 certainly difficult to decide what is war and what is not war the day of declarations of war before the shooting started seems to have ended and the fact remains that americans and chinese are killing arid and wounding each other the hope exists that the troops of mao are in korea only because of limited objectives to secure their frontier and to protect the I 1 yalu balu river electric power plants built by the japan japanese es e which serve important manchurian centers as |