Editorials
U.S. Containment Not A Wise Policy
The trouble with our state department's approach to world problems is that it has been too much influenced by domestic political bickering. The results have been that there is no sober analysis of the world crisis that would give basis to a successful program.
In view of Russia's threat of aggression, a key peg in our foreign policy is that of developing a practical plan to stem such aggression. At the same time, we must not by pass the United Nations. The Atlantic pact, begun prior to the Korean war, and various other regional pacts have been our major efforts in this direction. Our policies may be summed up with the Acheson program for "containment of Communism" through the creation of "situations of strength." Translated into everyday terms, this means simply meeting force with force.
An objective analysis of the containment policy, however, would have revealed to our state department certain inadequacies and faults.
1. It has served to broaden the Soviet-Western World split. At the same time it has isolated reluctant nations such as India, Iran and Burma.
2. It supersedes the United Nations. The damaging influence of containment on the UN has been like a double-edge blade. On one hand, it has ignored the United Nations as the major source for settling world disputes. On the other hand, it has overshadowed any attempts to convert the United Nations into an effective force.
3. Our policy of containment has not been winning friends. In spite of the overwhelming support we have received in the UN, our allies have been reluctant on more than one occasion. The vote on the branding of Communist China as an aggressor is a case at point. What is more alarming, our policy has not been winning new friends. The state department has met only failure in its attempts to influence the countries of southern Asia.
One of our major difficulties has been the ease with which the containment approach can be depicted by Russia as a mere re-incarnation of old-time colonial imperialism. Then again, sheer military support, as is offered under containment, lacks the moral appeal of Russia's specious welfare promises.
4. The meet-force-with-force approach does not provide real security for Americans. Although it is true that possible Russian military aggression may have been deterred, experience reveals that our people have not felt relieved or reassured by the results. To the contrary, tension has mounted and feeling runs closer than ever to the belief that Russia eventually will attack an unprepared United States.
5. This foregoing point brings up another weakness of the containment theory. It has little universal co-ordination. For example, a strong force in Western Europe would have little to do with deterring a Communist assault in the Near East. The Korean war, in view of our supposed success in Greece, is a case at point. Ben Holman.
General E. is probably the only veteran of both world wars who still isn't safe from the draft.
We've heard about this business of slanting the news, and we wonder if there was any particular reason for placing "The City Bulges" only four columns away from a story on Elmer Wheeler and "The Fat Boy's Downfall."
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Used Car Prices Slashed By U.S.
-News Roundup
Washington—(U.P.)—The government today ordered used car dealers to cut prices from $50 to $500.
The new price ceiling order affects every make and age of used car, from sparkling 1951 models to battered jalopies. It will go into effect for dealers and car owners on Dec. 20.
The ceilings vary slightly in geographical regions—the highest will be on the West coast—and provide a fixed depreciation rate which will cut the maximum selling price of a used car by two per cent every three months, starting Jan. 1.
Investigate Red Atrocity News
Tokyo — (U.P) — Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's headquarters opened an investigation today into the 8th Army's unexpected release of a statement charging the Chinese Reds with murdering 9,643 Allied war prisoners.
President Truman said that if reports are true that 2,500 American war prisoners have been slaughtered in Korea, it is the most uncivilized thing that has happened in 100 years.
Plane Wreck Found-36 Dead
Lyon, France—(U.P.)—Rescue teams found the twisted and burned-out wreckage of a U.S. Air Force flying boxcar half-buried in the snow on the slopes of Mount Dore today and reported all 36 servicemen aboard were dead.
The twin-engined C-82, which crashed two days ago on a routine flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Bordeaux, France, crashed into the mountain-side only 150 feet from the crest of the jagged peak.
An enlisted man, apparently had survived the crash and crawled out of the plane, only to die in the snow of his injuries.
Reds Threaten New Offensive
Panmunjom, Korea — (U.P.) - The Communists made a thinly-veiled threat today to unleash a new all-out offensive in Korea unless the United Nations agree at once to a cease-fire line.
The United Nations retorted that the quickest way to stop the shooting in Korea is to clean up the full Armistice agenda—including arrangements for the release of thousands of UN war prisoners in Communist hands.
Suez Canal Is Trouble Spot
Cairo, Egypt — (U.P) — Egypt defiantly warned Britain today it will proceed "without hesitation or delay" in its campaign to oust British forces from the Suez Canal zone and the Sudan.
At the same time, it announced missions will be sent abroad to purchase arms and line up foreign experts to build up Egypt's production of land and air weapons of war.
Yugoslavia Appeal For Aid
Foreign Minister Eduard Kardelj told the UN general assembly that Russia's satellites had 25 armed divisions exerting "aggressive pressure" on Yugoslavia's border compared with 14 divisions two years ago.
Paris — (U.P) — Yugoslavia appealed today for United Nations help to prevent its becoming another Korea.
Stockholm, Sweden — (U.P.) — Swedish author Paer Fabian Lagerkvist was awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for Literature today for his novel "Barabbas" about the criminal whose place Christ took on the cross.
'Barabbas' Wins Nobel Prize
Extension of UMT Asked
Later today awards will be made in the fields of Chemistry and Physics.
Washington—(U.P.)-Sen. Ralph E. Flanders urged today that the proposed six-month universal military training program be increased to one year.
The Vermont Republican, a member of the Senate armed services committee, said the six-month training period recommended by the National Security Training Commission would not give trainees enough combat know-how to make them of real military value to the nation.
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