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“, io Policy For The Future. ~~ 7 ~ a re pene ane of a exclusive company o seme aUIEE Rene wl A Fis é@ Kremlin i ] f. circle upon cir cle of guards, you would dur- ing the past six ; months have been reading re- ports on condi- tions in America. You would want to know the in- tentions, the ca- pacity, the tem- per of the great- TH. a est power in the Childs West. . . You_woul - ports of your secret agents to leah that there were serious di- Ca. member of the United enate publicly charged Sfales t he Department o was in ‘ated 2 é wi ommunists. And this charge touche t_po- litigal__quarrel__that _absarhed much of the energy and attention o th executive and legislative branches of the Government. n the Kremlin this obviously gant that America was civTttt meant that America was nd weak. could be put aiong- ide repo! at within the pow- rful Republican Party a move yas growing for “peace” and an nod of foreign adventures. So if you were one of that little group of planners, you might calculate that it. was cafe to make a beginning; particularly since ali the reports confirmed what you wanted to believe, your preconceived ideas about Ameri- can democracy aid its conflicts and contradictions.So you would» risk the Korean attack, expecting a quick and easy conquest. And you would be tremendously sur- prised when the United States reacted as it has reacted with positive military steps taken not alone in Korea but at three other key points in Asia.- ‘ ws . to look at our own reaction here at home, xcept for the m- munists and a Yew others on thé extreme right, most peo le seem to have felt an enormous reliel. almost Near 2 eosiee: You could aimost né tive sigh go up that action had been ordered and division and doubt at least for the time heing RPise Se SESS OA SS GELS Sse, ended. . There were those who ac- cepted the fact but reluctantly. _ and with the néed to find a ig longer.’ responsibility.“ of urd Tolson___- Clegr Glavi all tts own. For at one point_in Nichhine” ithe McCart ry ; and it moyy Well have Deen wie Crucial pol f_webeptance OF FeyereIOM of"the assault. Taft gave h ing’at another victim 1f you miss the first one. “Tf stetns 10 me that the State Department can be criticized for failing to evolve and carry out a positive and constructive pro- - gram for the Far East. But to put all the blame on Acheson is like blaming a runner for fail- ing to win a race when everyone has been busy putting obstacles in his way. ow A POSITIVE, constructive pro- gram in peacetime calls for a maximum of public acceptance, It calls for confidence in the mo- tives and the objectives of those who are cafrying it out. The afmosphere of the past five months has been just the op- posite. Everything has been done to break down cohfidence, The cp, attacks have produced timidity, 4. uncertainty, delay. Decisions, and Korea is an excellent ex- ample, have been blurred ove; and conflicting views have go unresolved. . Now, thanks to the aggressi action of the Communists ig: Korea, there js an immediate and tangible task to be carried out with American weapons and American courage abd skill. The headlines show that that assign- ment is considerably more dif- ficult than was realized in the first burst of relief iuat action and more action and more action could be substituted for uncer- tainty and division. But it may not be too early to try to take a little longer look into the future. American action can end the conflict. No one doubts that the Communist in- vaders can and must be driven — out. : When that hee Shenae Arne ‘ as seen DORE, however, the position of the South Korean republic will be © far more desperate than it was Pag . ‘ before. It has all along been a pretty weak instrument. Towns - i - will be smashed, lines of com- Times Herald —_ munications and roads destroyed and thousands of refugees made Wesh. Post _4& homeless. a re To help restore a stable order , will take more skill, patience and unity than we have yet shown in our dealings with the . peoples of Asia, Without the provocation of open Communist - aggression, the whole picture in ~ Asia. might have further de-- teriorated while’ we bickered among ourselves. We. can always count on action, action action “to avert the larger ‘ rt al ae oe ee +e gen some