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    "ocrText": "Savefor the President, Please\nBill\nNATIONAL AFFAIRS\ndead and Browning was lying on his side\nnext to him. Just before he died, he\nsqueezed Knippol's hand.\n\"Good-by, Bill,\" he said. Outside in the\nWhy Stay in Korea?\ns TRATIONAL of\nparked car, the baby slept still, unharmed\nthe\nby the bullets which had whistled over\nby Gen. CARL A. SPAATZ, U.S.A.F., Ret.\nits head. Texas honor was satisfied.\nS\nEVERAL years ago, when the United\nKorea can be held with limited ground\nStates was demobilized and mili-\ntroops, aided by air and naval supe-\nTENNESSEE:\ntarily bankrupt, Southern Korea was\nriority. If this course is taken, the\nwritten off as a strategic area that\nChinese Nationalist army now on For-\nRelief From Relief\ncould not be held. But when the Com-\nmosa, supplied and built up, will be a\nmunist coalition made a grab for it and\nserious threat to the Chinese mainland.\nThe Stanfills were doing well. Joe Lee\nStanfill was drawing $50 a month from\nthe United Nations decided to fight\nIt will force Mao Tse-tung to keep a\nthe state relief fund for the blind. His\naggression there, the previous U.S.\nsubstantial part of his army at home\nwife was getting $114 from the fund for\npolicy with respect to Korea\nand unavailable for service\ndependent children. His mother had an\nwas suddenly reversed.\nin Korea or elsewhere.\nThis reversal was fortu-\nSuchalimited warmightg\nold-age pension. Her take brought the\nnate for the future of Amer-\nStanfill income to $214.\non for a long time. But our\nica and the world. It\nlosses are so small compared\nTwo of the Stanfill children were able-\naroused the United States\nwith the casualties of the\nbodied men, but they wouldn't work, for,\nto the necessity of rearming\nCommunists that it is a good\nas they explained to everyone in Maury\nitself and its Allies and it\nbargain in military terms.\nCounty who offered them jobs, they\nkept a highly important\nMoreover, this uneven trade\ndidn't want to endanger their mother's\nrelief status. Stanfill wouldn't work\nstrategic base out of the\nmight eventually persuade\nhands of the Reds, at least\nthe Chinese Communists to\neither. He thought hunting was a lot\nmore fun. Somehow his blindness had\nfor the time being.\nsue for a reasonable peace.\nIn our hands, Southern Korea is an\nIt goes without saying that an ag-\nnever affected his marksmanship.\nLast week the Stanfills and thousands\nair base from which fighter-supported\ngressive effort to end the Korean war\nbombing operations could be con-\nby attacking Chinese territory could\nlike them were causing an uproar\nthroughout Tennessee. A committee of\nducted against Soviet industries in\nnot be made without the sanction of\nthe state legislature, headed by State\nManchuria and against the Trans-\nthe United Nations. Such sanction\nSen. Carl Hardin, had discovered that it\nSiberian Railroad, the East-West\nwould involve a calculated risk that\nSoviet lifeline. In Soviet hands, South-\nthe Kremlin would decide to support\nwas so easy to get on the relief rolls,\nalmost anyone who wanted to could. In\nern Korea would be the potential base\nthe Chinese with military personnel\nof fighter-supported bombing opera-\nas well as military equipment.\nsome counties, more than 60 per cent of\ntions against Japan and adjacent sea\nIf such a risk were taken, the U.N.\nthe men and women over 65 were draw-\nlanes and thus a menace to us.\nwould have to make full use of all the\ning pensions. Many had wealthy relatives\nresources at its command, including\n-but the checks kept rolling in.\nBaby Business? One woman was\nO\nUR possession of Southern Korea\nguerrilla forces willing and able to\nnow constitutes a cofferdam\nfight the Red Chinese inside China\ngetting money for her nine illegitimate\nagainst the flow of Red power through\nand the Nationalist army. Even then,\nchildren; another, for six. Gov. Gordon\nall of the Far East. We must hold this\nthis army should be held on Formosa\nBrowning, in fact, suspected that all too\nmany Tennesseans were having babies\ndam for military as well as political\nfor thrusts into China proper.\nreasons. We must also decide what to\njust to qualify them for relief.\ndo next about the Far East. A reassess-\nCOORDINATED offensive of this kind\nThere were men and women on the\nment of the whole Korea-Pacific area\nA\ncould, I believe, put an end to\nrolls who had died months before. The\nstate relief investigators, it developed,\npolicy is now indicated. The question\nchances for the Soviet Union to dom-\nmade only perfunctory attempts to find\nis whether we should proceed with an\ninate all of Asia. But it might involve a\neffort to win a decisive victory in Ko-\ngreater risk than the U.N. was will-\nout whether relief recipients were alive.\nTo the committee and to Governor\nrea or continue to fight the present\ning to run before the power vacuum\nwar of attrition against the Chinese\nin Europe is filled or it might require\nBrowning, the situation obviously called\nCommunists for an indefinite period.\nmore in manpower and equipment\nfor a tightening of the state relief re-\nTo win a decision, our ground\nthan the U.S. could afford at this\nquirements. And to set the stage for\narmy would have to cross the 38th\nstage of its rearmament.\naction by the legislature, Senator Hardin\nparallel, along which it is now de-\nIn any case, the Western Allies\ntook an unprecedented action: He started\nployed, and strike again toward the\nnow have latitude of choice in Korea\npublishing the names of relief recipients.\nYalu River, as it did last fall. Such an\nand the Far East if they do not permit\nThis was a direct violation of Federal law\noperation would again fail, however,\nthemselves to be lulled into com-\nand endangered the Federal contribution\nwhich Tennessee receives for its welfare\nunless (1) our ground forces were\nplacency by recent tactical victories.\nfund. \"We have no intention to embarrass\ngreatly reinforced or (2) the air and\nAlmost any course holds promise ex-\nsea forces were permitted to operate\ncept negotiations with the Reds on\nthese people or their relations,\" Hardin\nagainst Chinese territory north of the\nthe basis of conditions existing before\nexplained, \"but we do want to show the\nYalu. Course No. 1 is impractical if\nJune 1950, when Korea was con-\npublic the necessity for revising the law.\"\nAmerican troops are sent to Europe,\nsidered dispensable. It no longer is\nas they should be. Course No. 2 might\ndispensable unless we are to abandon\nERNEST K. LINDLEY, whose Wash-\nvery well succeed but it also might\nAsia, with its millions and its re-\nington Tides usually appears in\ntouch off a third world war.\nsources, to Soviet domination. And\nthis department, is vacationing. It\nThere is a third choice, which is\nthis could be preliminary to forced\nwill be resumed upon his return.\nsimply to hang onto whatever part of\nabandonment of the entire free world.\nMarch 12, 1951\nPreservation Copy\n25"
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