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The original documents are located in Box D13, folder "House Speech White Editorial,
December 18, 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
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
Hon. Gerald R. Ford,
House of Representatives, U. S.,
Washington, D. C.
Good December 19, speedsing 1950 fouse
My dear Mr. Ford:
Your Extension of Remarks entitled "A 'Debacle' For Votes" is returned here-
with in compliance with Section 135, Title 44, U. S. Code, as it contains a
duplication of an Extension of Hon. Andrew F. Scheeppel, of Kansas, appearing in
the Appendix of the Record of December 13 on page A8110.
Very truly yours,
JOHN J. DEVINY
Public Printer
By: Jmmeth EMMETT I. HILL I. Hill
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
Director of Planning Service.
Ext.geton
GERALD R. FORD, JR. - MICHIGAN
19/18/50 Are 18/50
MR. SPEAKER: The Kansas City Star recently republished
an editorial by W. L. White of the Emporia Gazette, and because
there is considerable merit to the ideas expressed in Mr. White's
comments I include the material as a part of my remarks.
FORD i LIBRARY GERALD
"But don't be old-fashic
A 'DEBACLE' FOR VOTES
That cumbersome contraption
representative government
W. L. WHITE SEES POLITICS IN
set up by those old luddy
dies, our founding fathers
THE KOREAN MESS.
congressional debate on who
or not to go into Korea v
Truman Regime Used War in an
have meant weeks of dela;
Attempt to sun Party's Com-
the end Congress might hav
munist Scandal, He
cided to stay out altogeth
Says.
"Readers of this column
remember that the Gazette
(By The Star's Own service.)
in favor of standing up to :
Emporia, Kas., Dec. 9.-"Six
as early as five years ago
months have gone by, and where
our truly magnificent ai
were still intact, and
are we?" W. L. White asks in
(Continued on Page 2A.)
an editorial in the Emporia Ga-
zette. The editorial goes on:
For an hour of good music, t
Armour Motors Sunday salon
"The total number of Amer-
10:00 this morning, KOKN
icans killed, wounded and cap-
tured in Korea to date make this
A 'DEBACLE' FOR V
1
the fourth bloodiest struggle in
our nation's history-surpassing
(Continued from Page 1A
in casualties the American Rev-
Harry S Truman was a
olution, the War of 1812, the
fellow-traveler who had n
discovered the horrid
Mexican war and the Spanish-
menace.
;
American war.
Guideposts to Future Pol
"And the goal of it all? Well,
;
it seems there should be free
"In view of this fact the
elections in Korea. But why did
presumes now to list five
we wake up to the value of free
posts to a future America
elections so late? Why, when we
eign policy. These are:
were powerful, did we not insist
(1) Since we are now p
weak; we should for the m
on free elections in Poland, in
avoid hopping carelessly into
Hungary, in Romania, in Jugo.
which we cannot hope to win
(2) We should not conce
slavia, in Czechoslavia, in East
all our forces in one distant
Germany, and in the Baltic
ed spot. Almost everything w
states? Why do we sud-
is now packed into Korea: 1
should break out in Europ
6
denly begin to shriek for a free
have left only the 82nd air
t
election in Korea, a backward
division to put between S
f
300) divisions and the At
country which, in all its 3,000
ocean.
years of history, never has had
((3) We should avoid war to
ture regions which are strate
1,
free elections nor seemed par-
worthless and which, if we
S
ticularly to miss them?
them, would be a future liabi
e
(4) When we are losing a
Uneasy Over the Whitewash.
a distant area, we should n
e
offended when a nearby ally
e
"But you forget political con-
help. (Stalin is winning th
siderations. Last spring Repub-
rean war without the loss
y
single Russian life. whereas
lican Senator Joseph McCarthy
Acheson virtuously turned
had aired his charges against
Chiang Kai-shek's offer to
200,000 anti-Communist C
Owen Lattimore, including a
fighting men into Korea: Mr.
son felt this might offend
1
number of which Dr. Lattimore
ренсе-lоving agrarian reforme
d
probably was innocent. The mar-
Chinese Communists)
S
tyred St. Owen of Lattimore was
(5) Until we are stronger (1
Moseow allow us the time
3
declared politically pure and
stronger) we should try to cu
ideologically virginal by Millard
bare minimum the number o
Tydings and the other Senate
we enter solely to win local ,
car elections.
Democrats, and promptly sat
Need Wisdom of a Line
) down to write of his 'Ordeal by
"The writer feels that v
Slander.' But the country was
now entering a period of te
uneasy. For obviously much had
stress, in which, if this
been smothered under whitewash
and all Christendom are 1
1
or suppressed, including the
vive, we will need the
smelly Amerasia case.
1
steady wisdom, solid cha
"At this moment there came
and firm courage that our
what seemed to be, from the
had in Lincoln's day. As a
political standpoint, the Heaven-
by, rich and stupid nati
sent opportunity of Korea. It
cannot hope to survive. W
t
promised to be a quick, popular
no longer continue fat, dun
little war against a weak enemy,
happy, babbling that this
and in behalf of the true, the
Century of the Common
0
beautiful and the good. The un-
electing to high office any
1
bearable vulgarities of Joe Mc-
ning dummy who will
S
Carthy would be drowned out
himself to bribe us with
a
by bugle and drum. Who then
dollar subsidies paid out
would dare say the Truman ad-
own public treasury, st
1
ministration was not firmly anti-
believing that if the Kremli
Communistic? And so into Korea
not be appeased, then It e
1
were sent not Dr. Lattimore, not
quickly licked in a blo
1 Dean Acheson-but the little
push-button war.
American draftees from Japan
"If we are to come the
t The frailties of our statesmen
the next grim half of this
were to be glossed over by the
tieth century still & repulation
blood (in modest quantities) of
free people we will need
our sons.
our courage and brains. W
"Most Humiliating Spectacle."
not hope to survive the
[
"We are therefore now at war
with a government which
1
in Asia, and furthermore, our
the nincompoops, of the
outnumbered soldiers are now
brains, and for the greed
hightailing it down the valleys
wits! Because of its follie
C of Korea in the most humiliating
a government will surel
spectacle the American flag
deservedly perish from
f
ever has flapped over since the
earth, and all the sane 8
Battle of Bull Run! How did we
the brave will be cruncl
get into it? Somewhere in the
the wreckage of its crash
bookcase you surely must have a
"OI
,
copy of that half-forgotten docu-
ment, the Constitution of the
United States. Pull it out and in
the fine type you will find that
the Congress and only the Con-
gress shall have power to de-
clare war and make peace.'