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The original documents are located in Box D13, folder "House Speech "Life" Article,
August 14, 1950" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box D13 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MR. FORD OF MICHIGAN
MR. SPEAKER, under leave to extend my own remarks, I am referring to
various editorials from the July 24, 1950 issue of LIFE Magazine,
No one should object to sound criticism or an evaluation of their past
actions. Only the weak, when previous mistakes are more obvious than ever,
hide under a self-preservation smokescreen and say, "this is no time for bygenes".
Ever since the Soviet aggression into South Kerea, the Democratic Adminis-
tration leaders have been wanting the public to forget the terrible diplematic
blunders of the State Department in Asia and the Far East. Fortunately the
American people, through editorials such as those in LIFE Magasine are being
told the truth. The full and complete truth of our Pacific stupidity may
hurt the "lot the dust settle" policy-makers of the State Department, but the
full and complete truth as to why we have lost China and why we are currently
fighting a war in Korea will be helpful in setting a preper course in the
months shead.
The LIFE Magasine editorials of the a forementioned date demand the
resignation or dismissal of Acheson. If Secretary Acheson does not publicly
disavov his previous China and Pacific policies, I likewise believe he should
Wesign. If Mr. Achbson is now convinced of the fallacies of his underlings,
those who assisted in setting the bankrupt Pacific pelicy, and will renounce
straightforwardly their views, then he is qualified to remain in the President's
Cabinet in the months ahead. However, if Mr. Acheson still believes in such
previously discredited theories for combatting communist influence in Asia,
and is only standing by till we win in Kerea, then he should leave his present
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
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position of responsibility. This is no time for half-hearted cooperation.
Either Mr. Acheson is wholeheartedly opposed to communist and fellow-traveler
policies in the Far East, and if so he should publicly renounce all past views,
or he should step aside for another who will do more than acquiesce by silence.
In the newspapers for August 8, 1950, that so-called expert for the Far
East, Mr. Owen Inttimore, urges that Communist China be seated in the United
Nations. This is the same tune played by Joe Stalin and the Russian Delegate
to the United Nations, Mr. Malik, Birds of a feather seem to fleck together.
In closing let me compliment the Editor of LIFE Magazine for discussing
frankly matters which too long have been glossed over and covered up by the
Administration leaders.
FORD i LIBRARI GERALD