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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1950
Thought For The Day—
"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.Thomas Carlyle.
Armchair Killers
With the world tottering on the brink of catastrophe, several of our more vociferous senators have raised their raucous voices demanding that the A-bomb be used in China and/or Russia.
For future reference, we now record the names: Senators Brewster, (R.-Maine); Hickenlooper, (R.-Iowa); Bridges, (R.-New Hampshire); Pepper, (D.-Florida); and Knowland, (R.-Calif.). Oh, yes! Loudmouth McCarthy, (R.-Wis.) also came out for this impressive move.
A roll call of these sagacious lawmakers would ordinarily evoke snickers, and in some cases guffaws, if it were not for the tragic lack of perspective and utter irresponsibility that they have shown in this time of crisis.
We sympathize with the honorable senators in their eagerness to end the conflict, but we think they're going about it the hard way. We would suggest that the armed forces give them the chance to enlist en masse and train these gladiators of the dinner table as a special unit. They would make an excellent commando-squad, especially useful for close-in fighting where they could beat the enemy to death with hard words, or roast him in hot air.
It appears as if the volume of our bloodthirsty senators increases by the square of their ages . . . the distance they are from the fighting is also a factor.
Editorial Comment On Korean Crisis
We hope that the rest of the world realizes that these honorable senators are not considered the wisest men in our national affairs. —J.A.B.
New York Times—"Of all the lies invented by Hitler and his puppets, and now by Moscow and its puppets, to bolster up a policy of conquest, this falsification of American-Chinese relations is the biggest, most shameless and most stupid. The Peiping regime betrays the Chinese people when it sends them to fight their long-proved friends to serve the interests of their historic enemies. But it betrays even its own interests when it tells such patent falsehoods in its first address to the outer world. Who will believe any statement of a government that displays such brazen contempt for truth, for humanity, for history, and for the judgment of mankind?"
New York World-Telegram and the Sun—"If the United Nations cannot deal with Russia as determinedly as it dealt with North Korea, then the organization should be abandoned until the one-world idea has firm support instead of mere lip service.
"Meanwhile, if the United Nations will not support American troops fighting under its banner in Korea, our troops have no business being there. They should be withdrawn and held ready for the real showdown with the real culprit in this situation—Soviet Russia."
New York Daily News—"In this situation, we can see only two courses for Mr. Truman to choose between: 1. Request the U.N., as urgently as he knows how, to withdraw the don't-bomb-Manchuria order and give MacArthur a free hand. Insist on prompt action in the matter, and bring as much pressure to bear as was brought to obtain the U.N.'s swift consent last June to the original "police action." Take a chance on starting World War III—and, if that tragedy results, give us at least the initial advantage of having crippled Manchuria's war plants and bashed up the Chinese Reds' supply lines.
"Or 2—Notify the U.N. that we did not bargain for a war with Communist China when we undertook to slap down the North Korean Reds, and that therefore our men are going to start fighting their way out of all Korea as best they can and as fast as they can . . . "
New York Daily Mirror—'The time has come, in this crisis, to give Gen. Douglas MacArthur his head as a fighter and to provide him with adequate supplies to do his job.
"The time has come to cut the debate and get on with the business of this nation.
"The time has come to win the war as a fighting force.
"We hail Warren Austin for taking up the cudgels in the United Nations, but we demand that he say to his colleagues there that they put up or shut up . . ."
Washington, D.C. Evening Star—" . . . Is there really any valid reason, moral or otherwise, why we must wait until the Russians have blasted our industrial centers before we blast theirs? . . .
"Has anyone a moral right to insist that our hands remain tied until untold numbers of American civilians have been killed and maimed by the enemy . . .
"There is nothing left to us except a choice among evils. If this seems to be a repelling outlook, let us remember that it is true, and true in a very literal sense, that we have come to the point where our survival depends upon our ability and our willingness to make decisions that are hard to make, and to act upon them with determination once they have been made."
Chicago Daily News—"The United States fought a long, cruel, and costly war to save the Chinese people from conquest by the Japanese. . . It is unthinkable . . . that even the new Communist masters of China are unaware in their hearts of the inexhaustible debt that the Chinese people owe to those of America. Nevertheless, they are now coldly and brazenly presenting to us, at the U.N., an ultimatum of their terms for halting the killing of U.S. soldiers in Korea.. All the world knows that it is the Kremlin speaking . . . Our mission in Korea was to prove that aggression cannot succeed in today's world. The prospect is that we may succeed only in proving on a larger and more spectacular scale that it can succeed."
Chicago Daily Tribune-"In a fateful moment of American history, with the Korean front falling apart and our army in retreat, the United States turns to the U.N. and to its nominal allies, and there finds no support. At the very moment that the Red onslaught has developed its surprise fury, Britain and France, the slacker empires, prove their utter undependability as allies.
"Renewing their fatuous suggestion that Communist China can be bought off by American agreement to the creation of a "buffer" zone in North Korea, they are at the old, futile game of appeasement, which certainly has no attraction to a victorious enemy on the march. . ."
San Francisco Chronicle—"The problems created by the Communist Chinese onslaught of aggression in Korea must be approached, as General Marshall has said, 'in the coldest, calmest, most calculating way.' This kind of approach calls for a contribution from the whole American people and it is peculiarly up to congress, remaining at its post, to set the example."
San Francisco News—"If the U.N. cannot deal with Russia as determinedly as it dealt with North Korea, then the organization should be abandoned until the one-world idea has firm support instead of mere lip service.
"Meanwhile, if the U.N. will not support the American troops fighting under its banner in Korea, our troops have no business being there. They should be withdrawn and held ready for the real showdown, with the real culprit in this situation—Soviet Russia."
Los Angeles Times—"The United States should make its position plain to friend and foe alike, and Mr. Truman should hire a secretary of state who can speak in words ordinary mortals can understand and can believe. We should say that we have no quarrel with anybody, least of all the Chinese people; that we do not want war, but that we will not be pushed around, bamboozled and defied any longer."
"If the U.N. will stop speech-making and act swiftly to punish aggression—with their own young men as well as ours—we will do our part.
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