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Retired Navy Strategist Sees Heed To Stop Reds in Southeast Asia
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By CHARLES R. MOORE I Charles M. Cooke Jr.. USlf
Sonoma, Calif. -fl!PD - Adm.(ret.), former commander of
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the U.S. 7th fleet and a military-political
strategist with a
remarkable record of accurate
prophecy, said today that if the
Communists are not stopped
in Laos and South Viet Nam
they will continue toward
conquest of all Southeast Asia.
And that conquest, he said,
is just part of their overall
plan to communize the whole
world.
Cooke said he approved of
President Kennedy's action in
sending U.S. Marines into
Thailand but that the move
came late and still was not
in sufficient force.
"I would put at least a Ma
rine division i.'O Thailand,"
Cooke said in an exclusive in
terview with United Press In
ternational. "At the same time
I would put a guerrilla-trained
division of Marines in
South Viet Nam and on a
fighting rather than merely
advisory basis."
"Our decision should be to
stop and turn back Commu
nist aggression and we should
use forces sufficient to do it.
We did it in Lebanon. And
we did it in Korea, although
we did not carry through to
victory."
Retired Unwillingly
Cooke was commander of
the 7th Fleet from June, 1946
to February, 1948. Retired un
willingly at the mandatory
age of 62 in 1948, he contin
ued military activity as ad
viser to Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek and frequent con
sultant to Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur during the Korean
War.
It was at his California
ranch that he talked with
this correspondent about the
latest Far Eastern crisis.
Cooke recalled that in May,
1945, Fleet Admiral Ernest
King asked him for a memo
on the Navy's role in the post
war years. Cooke told him
that:
-Unless the United States
prevented it, Russia would ex
pand too fast and too far.
-Unless the United States
prevented it, the Communists
would take over China.
-In order to carry out U.S.
policy, all services must be
prepared to carry out local
war.
"Nobody believed that," he
said today, "until Korea."
Order Incredible
Cooke said that in 1948,
when the U.S. government
ordered its troops out of
South Korea, he found it in
credible, and'said so in an
interview with Frank H. Bar
tholomew, former president
and present chairman of the
board of United Press Inter
national. He said he considered it
"disastrous" in January, 1950,
when U.S. government policy
put Korea outside U.S. de
fense lines. The North Ko
reans, with Russian and later
Chinese Communist backing,
attacked in June.
Warm of Threat
When the Korean cease
fire talks began, Cooke warn
ed that if the Chinese Com
munists were let off without
a decisive defeat they would
move into North Viet Nam.
In 1955 North Viet Nam sur
rendered. Cooke said he did not be
lieve the Communists intend
to attack Thailand immediate
ly, but that with Laos prac
tically lost the Reds have a
pathway to new atacks iq
South Viet Nam and for
threats to Thailand.
"Each time we let them get
away with something," he
said, "we weaken ourselves.
Other countries figure the
United States is never going
to do anything. As we con
tinue to retreat, we are weak-
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friends."
Cooke said he does not be
lieve there will be all-out war
the Far East. And he does
not believe use of nuclear
weapons will be necessary or
desirable.
And as to whether the
jungles of Southeast Asia are
good place to fight, he said:
North Korea was a helluva
ace to fight, too."
Southern Pacific
Earnings Increase
n First Quarter
Wilmington, Del. - The.
general Improvement in busi
ness conditions this year over
those of early 1961 has pro
duced more traffic for South
ern Pacific and resulted in
better first quarter earnings,
J. Russell, SP president,
reported at the railroad's an
nual meeting here, today.
First quarter rail revenues
for the system totalled $190,
363,000 - up $14,970,000.
Net income of SP and its
subsidiaries for the three
month period was $17,733,000
equivalent to 65 cents a
share, compared to 55 cents
share a year ago.
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Traffic gains were register
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of freight, Russell said. Lead
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parts, lumber and plywood,
iron and steel manufactures,
ores and concentrates, and
canned goods. Last year's
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Russell said that Southern
Pacific this year will invest
about $93 million in capital
improvements - bringing ex
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Morse Proposes
Limit on Imports
Washington - (UPD - Sen,
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Wed
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of exports to the U.S. from
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The amendment was co
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Morse said the amendment
was a substitute for an amend
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Mundt (R-S.D.) on a bill auth
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President Kennedy's textile
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The agreement was negoti
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limit textile imports into the
nation.
The Mundt amendment
would prevent the textile
agreements being put into
effect until similar agreements
had been negotiated by Presi
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other commodities.
The amendment, sponsored
by Morse and Humphrey
would include the limitation
of exports on several other
products.
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