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atepr te: - = The Washington Merry-Go-Round TydingsFavors 12-ManRedPro be By Drew Pearson Verann anthrash os» tonvat AUOPR TTY hafare tha su investigation, Subject of discussion washom_ta lg jQism_¢ Arges. the were Senators Tydings of Maryland, McMahon of Connecticut and Green of Rhode Island, all members of the Senate Com- mittee, together with Vice President Barkley and aeemmee Sener McGrath. meediandead ¢henwt Shh sel aneere = sine, ft G.0,P. crits —‘Therelare,—he_piapoaed that “2 e’s final report b As late as the day after the Communist invasion * of Korea, Taft pleaded behind the closed deors of 3i3— 8s — a the Kepublican Senate caucus that he didn’t want. to be “stampeded ‘into another war.” : Yet, two days later, following President Truman's order sending American forces into Korea, Taft proclaimed to the Senate: “I approve of the changes now made in our foreign policy ... I feel that we must back up our troops, where they have been sent by the President, with unstinted support!” In exactly the same speech, however, Taft called for ‘Acheson's resignation because his Korean pol- icy had been reversed. : Earlier Invasion wae attamnind A® invasion cf Southern Korea was atte enmpied and turned back in March. This is revealed in a translation of Korean newspapers for June 12, On that date, Capt. Kim Yung Chol, deputy fing report by propmsing a_l2anse-eammise on--four appointed by the Whit ehief of the Korean navy, reported that an ne Speaker, and tours the Mice Eeaaldania tempt was made to land Communist troops _anvestigate communista any Diace in the Gay. guerillas in the South in March, and that it was Senator Green of Rhode Island and : das. They said that the Senate was merely passing the buck. Having started to do a job, the Senate should not drop it Mke = hot potato, they argued. Vice President Barkley and Truman were non- committal, but, as the meeting adjourned, it looked as if the President might follow Tydings’ advice. I jew eve should now. be. thoroughly convinced that, the, State Department is is anti-Communist, Tate h in Reverse L*43LE, impulsive Bob Taft should be careful how he chalks up the mistakes of others, for * i gometimes the tables get turned oan hire Lay eee Mio OTE srlie. Taft made quite a speech recently, arguing that an Acheson had been “reversed by his superiors” af the result of American intervention in Korea, afd demanded that he resign, What Taft neglected t# mention, however, is how he reversed his own policy on Korea—overnight, 6 1 \ turned back by the navy. Captain Kim also announced, “of late, an creasing number of unidentified submarines and naval vessels are infesting our waters near Woolneung Island and Pohang, apparently with the aim of spying on our naval facilities and flan Aarth ab es measuring the depth of our waters. Also, on May 26, a Russian vessel was sunk three miles off Wonsan. For the past two monthé, scattered fighting of advanced patrols involving as many ag 3000 troops around the thirty-eighth parallel has been reported, Korean officers have claimed they saw Russian military observers with*the Communist units from the North. Another Joe in Limelight SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Gen. Joseph Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, plodding down a long corridor of the Pentagon lugging a detailed Map of Korea . . , silent throngs on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House ,.. Senators clus- tered around a huge map of Eastern Asia in the rear of the chamber . .. members of the Feretgn Relations Committee grouped around a television set watching the U. N. ‘Security Coustesivee [2(- 23274 4 ee ee ee OT Rb Or DHD- 76 AUG 19 1959 Times-Herald Wagh. Wash. ows Wash. Bhar N.Y. Mirror ALY, UL now _ Page