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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1951
Lee Sheppeard straws in the wind
Unconditional?
What is our eventual aim in the Korean war? In the overall conflict between Communism and the West?
The United Nations' object in the Kaesong talks has been only a cease-fire, a truce with both armies still armed and facing each other across a neutral zone at a defensible line drawn near the present line of battle.
But if such a cease-fire is possible, what then? A build-up of troops and munitions by both the U.N. and the Reds, with the hope that fighting will not break out again?
And if the truce talks are unsuccessful, where will the Korean war end? Do we plan to drive the Communists out of Korea?
That would leave us at the edge of China. The Peking "People's government" has fed the Chinese endless propaganda about the potential danger that would exist with the U.N. army at the Chinese border. It's very possible that the Reds would not allow us to take all Korea without conquering China, too.
That, in turn, would almost certainly involve the Soviet Union itself and bring on World War III, unless we were willing merely to bomb China's industrial centers and make peripheral attacks on her seacoast. The effectiveness of that type of warfare, against a nation with as much land area and as many troops as China has, is open to question.
In other words, we cannot demand unconditional surrender in Korea unless we want a long, intense fight with China. Then, in turn, we could not expect unconditional surrender in China unless we were willing to fight World War III.
And what if the Soviet army attacks Western Europe? Would we try to push it back to the present Iron Curtain, and seek a truce there, or would we demand unconditional surrender and take a chance on inviting World War III?
The answer is that we could not. The kind of bitter-end war tha unconditional surrender entails would reduce industries in all Europe, most of Asia, and possibly much of America to the rubble that filled Tokyo and Berlin—or Hiroshima and Nagasaki—after World War II.
Even if we were able to win a World War III, could we demand unconditional surrender of the whole Soviet sphere of influence?
Reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II was a tremendous job—even with U.S. dollars. Reconstruction of most of the world's industries—with the great powers unable to furnish financial aid to other nations—would be beyond conception.
The threat of such a war is one of the Soviet Union's strong talking points, among its satellites, against the "Western aggressors."
What is the alternative?
To try to outrun Russia in the long-range armaments race? To convince the peoples under the Soviet wing that we are not aggressors, that all-out war is not eventually inevitable?
All the current national interest in world affairs seems to center on solving the problems that exist today. Let's hope someone in Washington is trying to plan for the eventual conclusion of the world conflict.
Joe Taylor
taylor made
Governor Dewey, the two-time GOP standard bearer, is listed as the speaker at Cornell university when Deane Malott is to be installed as the new president. We hope that the sound of that title doesn't bring back to old Tom too many unpleasant memories.
At St. Louis we see where an ice cream store rewarded a 7-year old boy for finding $250 of company money by giving him all the ice cream he could eat in a month. After reading the follow up stories telling of the seven or eight gallons he has taken home and the dozens of ice cream cones, sundaes, banana splits, and malted milkhe has eaten himself or given to his friends, we wonder if it wouldn't have been cheaper to let him just keep the money.
The boy's dad seems to be gifted with an unusual ability for understatement. He is quoted as saying, "Charles has been kind of puny, but this seems to have snapped him out of it."
In these days of whirlwind changes it is good to see that some things remain the same. A picture taken at the chancellor installation ceremony shows four of the university's top officialdom looking at the program for the words to the school song.
Our office grouch has sworn off reading "Pogo" and thinks it should be banned from publication. If people keep on reading the current discussion on how hard it is "... to figer how folks kin fight each other," he'll loose all those deadly hates he has taken years to develop.
It is not true that the University has decided to hold all large meetings in the S.A.E. house as soon as the new addition is completed. After a special meeting of the faculty it was announced that although it may hold more than Hoch auditorium, the latter building is more centrally located.
This letter was received by Prof. R. M. Dreyer of the geology department recently, from Lt. R. E. Warner, U.S.N.R., on active duty on the U.S.S. Boxer with naval squadron VF-884 from Olathe naval air base. When called to active duty, Lt. Warner was a College senior majoring in geology—Ed.
Off Korea . . .
June 25,1951 Off Korea
Dear Doc Dreyer:
I don't remember exactly where we were when I last wrote to you, but I will start from about April and bring you up to date.
As you may have heard we have been plastering the enemy with everything from napalm bombs to 50 cal. machine gun bullets, Air Group 101 and particularly FV-884 really let the Commies know that we were here. On our very first operation, pilots from the Squadron attacked a ridge, that was lousy with Reds, with napalm and strafing. After the smoke cleared away, the controller stated 100% coverage or about 1,000 Commies dead.
Since then we have attacked railroad bridges, highway bridges, and bypasses. Communications, supply and ammo dumps and transportation have been hit with equal fury. The accuracy with which the pilots of the Air Group have been able to drop bombs, and rockets on bridges, etc. has been amazing! Most of these bridges are from 6 to 10 feet wide and the problem of placing a 1,000 lb. bomb on them is a rather large one.
The squadron with yours truly, have been in on both big offensives by the Commies and, according to the high brass, have been one of the big factors in repulsing the offensives and helping to keep the enemy restraining in a disorderly rout!
All has not been a "gravity train" for the Air Group and again I single out VF-884 from Olathe. Up to date, and I pray to God that this is all, we have lost six pilots to enemy anti-aircraft fire. Two are missing and the other four have been killed in action. On April the 18th, we lost Lt. lt. Harold Walker. He is missing in action. His engine was hit and quit on him and he made a forced landing.
Then Lt. A. W. Thomas was killed over Hanhung, followed by Lt. jg M. T. Dragastin being mortally wounded while covering his division leader Lt. Chas. Garrison, who had bailed out of his plane after it was hit and set fire by AA. Lt. Garrison is missing in action. On May 24 our Skipper, Lt. Cmdr. G. F. Carmichael was shot down. He bailed out but when picked up by the friendly medics, he was dying and, according to the dispatch, died about 5 minutes later.
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We thought that possibly we had all the bad luck that was in store for us, but when we returned from our rest in Japan, we lost still another from our group. This time it was Lt. jg Paul Schaefer. He was apparently mortally wounded by AA, because his plane was seen to spin and crash into the water without any word from Paul at all.
Both Harold Walker and Marion Dragastin were K.U. boys. Walker was in the Business School and Dragastin was in Engineering.
We miss these mates and really and truly feel the horrors of war, first hand. It makes us all somewhat bitter to read in the paper, when it
makes the paper, about the "little Korean incident!" This is the second war I have had the dubious privilege of being in and anyone who doesn't classify this as a war is either a damn fool or lacks intelligence enough to be left loose among the populace.
One day while I was spotting gun fire for a group of ships at Songjin, I was hit by 30 cal. weapons. This may not sound unusual until you realize that when I was hit, I was indicating 350 knots and the bullets entered the plane at 90 degree deflection! To make matters worse, they hit right beneath the cockpit and damaged my controls, knocked out my compasses, and punctured a hydraulic line! Had they been six inches higher, someone else would be writing this!
Please excuse the messy letter, as I am hurrying to finish as I have a hop in about an hour.
Yours truly, Bob Warner
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