Wed., Aug. 30, 1950 The News-Review, Roseburg, Orej. 9
Military, State Department i
Heads Wrangle Over Threat '
Of Global War With Russia
y ELTON C. FAY
AP Military Affairs Reporter
WASHINGTON (API No line Lincoln', troubles with
hi Civil War generals and cabinet mtmbin has the government
been entangled in ai bitter a wartime family wrangle ai that in
volving edminittration end military leaden today.
The ichiim between military and State depertment thinking
began to develop obscurely months and even yean ego. But the
break now, unfortunately, becomes visible to the friends and en
emies of the United States when the nation is fighting in Korea
what could be a prelude to another world war.
It is, indeed, this possibility of
global conflict with Communist
Russia that has generated the fric
tion. The intra-government contro
versy is complex, made more so
by the different ideas even within
the military camp.
Powerful men and grave domes
tic and international questions are
involved, among them these:
President Truman, caught in the
middle of the conflict of views of
the military and the diplomats. At
direct issue now is the problem
of Far East policy and the ques
tion of neutralizing or fortifying
the island of Formosa, held by
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
and his Nationalist government
against the menace of Communists
on the mainland.
The President decided for neut
ralization and against the milit
ary's proposal for fortification.
Aside. from international effect, he
had to consider the impact of his
decision on the forthcoming con
gressional elections.
Secretary of Stite Dean Ache
ion, advocate of a policy aimed at
containing Communism within
Russia and the satellite states
without embarking on new steps
that might be seized upon by Mos
cow as pretext for propaganda or
war. He opposes the military's
ideas about Formosa and what
the State department considers in
trusion by the military into for
eign policy making fields.
Stymied By Truman
General Douglas MacArthur,
upon whose shoulders are five
stars and a legend, has operated in
and fought wars in the Western
Pacific. Alone of all tre generals
and admirals, he has not returned
to the United States an indepen
dent, almost autonomous figure
who has conferred with Washing
ton officials and Presidents only
when they visited his part of the
world. '
MacArthur obviously has dis
agreed with the White House-state
department views about Formosa's
strategic position in Far East de
fense against Communism. He
flew to Formosa recently to talk
with Chiang, a visit which dis
turbed the State department. Then
he prepared a message for reading
to a convention of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, setting forth his
views about Formosa and other
r
things. -
At the last minute, he canceled
the message, telling the veterans
"I regret to inform you I have
been directed to withdraw" the
message. The only man who could
have issued such directive to a
man in his position was President
Truman.
Other Figures In Feud
Defense Secretary Louis John
son, who has conducted behind-the
scenes tests of strength with Ache
son over military-political policies.
Johnson, unlike MacArthur who
has been subject to little criticism
in Congress, has frequently come
under fire from various Law
makers. Moreover, he was in
volved in a controversy a decade
ago when an assistant secretary
of war and lost out. Whatever
thoughts and support he has for
MacArthur and the defense of For
mosa, he has been careful about
uttering them publicly at this par
ticular time.
Navy Secretary Francis P.
Matthews, newcomer to the mil
itary family. Matthews landed in
the middle of the military-State
department feud with a speech at
Boston in which he raised the ques
tion of preventive war. He said
that "to have peace we should be
willing, and declare our intention
to pay any price, even the price
of instituting a war, to compel co
operation for peace."
The State Department, an
guished, rushed out a statement
which asserted Matthews' remarks
"do not represent United States
policy" and that '.'the United
States does not favor instituting
a war of any kind." Up to now,
Matthews was sticking by his
statement which he said repre
sented only his views and was
"not intended to be any expression
of administration policy."
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