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The Washington Notebook
F BY PETER EDSON
% NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON. — (NEA) — Mr. J. Chricton
Mathison, & Malayan rubber plantation nranager,
passed through Washihgton the other day, enroute
to his home in Scotland for a vacation. While in
Washington, Mr. Mathison told a story about one
phase of the anti-Communist war in Asia which
doesn’t get into the papers much in these parts.
Malaya is about the same size and shape as
Florida. But four-fifths of Malaya is virgin jungle,
far wilder and denser than the Everglades, Big
Cypress swamp or the Lake Okeechobee wilder
ness.
There are other differences. Whereas the Florida
bandits are one-armed, or - else retired from the
Chicago wilds to ocean front palaces of respecta
bility, the Malayan bandits stick to the jungle.
There are an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 of them.
About 1,800 to 1,900 have been killed, With luck,
says Mathizon, they can be exterminated in a cou
ple of years. Or at least they can be so reduced in
numbers that their organized resistance will be
broken up. That is the good news in the situation.
But it is the dirtiest kind of war.
The bandits don’t fight in the open, nor in man
euveis. They lievin ambush along the roads. And
when a planter or tin mine operator or government
oilicial passes by—European and Asian alike—the
bandits open fire, kill, then disappear into the jun
gle.
‘iheer are roughly 1,000 major foreign planters
in Malaya. In Florida they would be the big citrus
grove and truck farm operators. Thus far, forty of
the lMalayva planters have been killed. Those that
survive now travel in armored cars. Mathison him
self has been missed by inches, '
ALONG AMBUSH ROAD g
Planter Mathigon’s Bukit Paloh estate of 5,000
acres, owned L}; a British company, is some 120
miies north of Singapore. His nearest neighbor is
ten miles away, Along the road between them
seven men have been ambushed and killed. Most
roads are now being cleared of jungle, 100 yards on
either sicde, to end ambushes.
I'he lile of a planter today is pretty much the
saie anywheore on the peninsula. His house is sur
rounded by barbed wire. He carries a gun and tra
vels with an armed guard wherever he goes. At
nizht he must mount half a dozen guards.
The curfew goes on at three o’clock in the after
noon and continues till six the next morning. This
is one ol the new numerous measures taken in an
eilort to break up the contact between the bandits
and the smnaller planters and tradesmen whom the
bandits blackmeail and hold up for supplies that
keep them going. If this line of supply can be bro
ken, it is believed that the bandit strength can be
brolen.
Worlimen on the plantations are now being moved
into compounds to give thenmr greater protection
and to £top terrorism against the natives and Chi
nese who supply most of the labor.
All' these safety measures are part of what is
known &s the Briggs defense plan, It takes its name
from General Sir ‘Harold Briggs of the British
Army, who has been director of operations against
the bandits. He has about 25,000 British regulars
plits some 75,000 police.
They now hunt bandits the way the Malayan
sultans used to hunt tigers. The only new touches
are armored cars, tanks and airplanes. But they're
no good in the jungles, where it rpay take a week to
hack a mile off the trails:
NO DOUBT THEY'RE COMMIES
The bandits that have been caught have been
definitely identified as Communists. The war in
Malaya is part and parcel of -the whole war in
Korea, the Philippines and Viet Nam, says Mathi
son. But the leader of the Malayan Commies is un
known, There is no Ho Chi-minh, no Ma Tse-tung
or other central figure masterminding the war. Di
rection is believed to come from Russia through
China. Most of the bandits are alien Chinese, mean
ing Chinese not born in Malaya.
No arms supplies are known to have come from
Russia or Red China by airplane or submarine.
The bandit supply of arms—and it is a good one—
came fronr the surrender of British and then Jap
anese armies on Malaya.
When the war was over, signs appeared all over
Malaya bearing Stalin’s picture and thanking the
Russians for winning the war, This in spite of the
fact that most of the guerrillas who operated in
Malaya against the Japs during the war were sup
plied by British airplane drops and trained by
British officers who parachuted into the jungle to
organize resistance.
The Communist movement got its start in Malaya
about 1926. It was kept down by police till 1942,
when the Jap occupation began. In 1945 the move
ment went underground. After a World Federa
tion of Democratic Youth meeting in Calcutta in
1948 Malaya was given a high priority as a trouble
spot. A Malayan Peoples Liberation Army tried to
seize power but failed.
A year or so ago the Malayan Federated States
povernment thought it had the movement liked.
Then the British government recognized the Chi
nese Communist government and threw the whole
anti-Red drive on Malaya into a tailspin.
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It Is Possible To Win $-ort
"
Of Crushing The Enemy
War is not fought for its own sake. It is not
merely a grim kind of sport in which the sole ob
ject is to bomb and burn and kill the enemy until
he is totally crushed.
War is an extension of politics into the realm of
force. It is fought for political objectives. If this
fact is lost sight of and it is treated virtually as a
football contest—to be won or lost—then it may
prove to have been fought in vain.
Certainly we do not wish to lose any war which
we have undertaken, since we would then be un
likely to achieve our political aims. But neither do
we want to win merely to be militarily victorious
over another nation,
The important thing is to accomplish the objec
tives for which we entered the war. It is wholly
conceivable that these goals could be attained with
out winning—in the sense of crushing the enemy.
We might realize thenr just by preventing the enemy
from winning,
This is an idea not too easy for Americans to
digest. They like clear-cut decisions, easily-labeled
results, signposts that stand out. Thus the late Pres
ident Roosevelt’s “unconditional surrender” hurled
at the Nazis was a popular war slogan. But polit
ical experts agree today that it is one of the root
causes of our present difficulties in Europe.
“Unconditional surrender” pre-supposed a com
pletely beaten Germany with no shred of its for
mer power left intact. To free peoples outraged at
Nazi tyranny, this afforded a fine emotional escape
valve. But it ignored the political realities. |
We entered Korea to choke off aggression its
earliest phase, to show that it would not pay. We
hoped also to unify Korea under a free govern
ment. A failure to stand there, it was felt, would
open the gates of Asia to the Communist flood and
allow it to flow across Indo-China, Malaya, Siam,
Burma, India, Indonesia. |
That is still our goal—to prevent the communiz
ing of Asia by military force. If in the end we must
fight Red China and even Russia all-out, we prob
ably will. But if we can achieve our ends without
that terrible conflict, we should. What matters now
is not that we deal crushing defeat to the Commun
ist Chinese in their homeland, but that we do what
we set out to do when the first American soldier
set foot on Korean soil last summer.
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MacArthur Gives No Comfort
To "Let Europe Stew” Groups
Before General MacArthur took the witness chair
in Washington, the wider aspects of the controversy
surrounding his dismissal were sometimes being
referred to as the “Europe v. Asia” debate.
The inference was that MacArthur represented a
policy which.put Asia first as a theater of combat
against Russian communism, while the Adminis
tration stood for “Europe first.”
Detailed examination of the general’s testimony
before the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed
Services Committees puts a totally different light
on his attitude,
MacArthur is for combatting the Reds in all
theaters, simultaneously if necessary. To those who
argue the free nations cannot thus divide their
strength, he replies that the Communists must like
wise divide theirs to contest on more than one
front. If they can do it, why not we?
If MacArthur gives any priority at all to Asia, it
is sinrply because fighting is now in progress there,
while Europe is still theoretically at peace. But he
stated emphatically that he does not believe the
defense of Europe should be neglected in any way.
There is plainly no comfort in MacArthur’'s views
for those who feel that Europe should be left
largely to its own devices. Nor is there solace for
the believers in a sort of “fortress America” .which
would retire within its own ‘outposts and rely on
sea and air power to fend off a hostile world.
That MacArthur should have, in this current con
troversy, attracted the backing of many long-con
firmed isolationists is ironic. For his testimony
proves that he is at the very opposite pole. He is
for stepping in wherever the Communists threaten
free men.
While he has great faith in American sea power
and air strength and wants to see them more fully
employed right now against Red China, he does not
argue that they alone can be the saviors of freedom.
To him, ground, sea and air forces are an insep
arable team and he thinks it silly to consider them
any other way. Here again, his words offer no
pleasure to men who contend America can defend
itself—and help defend its allies—without a large,
well-trained land army.
MacArthur does not believe we are now pre
pared to fight a war on many fronts. But he is
confident we have the potential, and should not
therefore flinch from facing communism down at
all points.
By his testimony on this broad problem, the gen
eral made clear that the issue is not Europe v. Asia.
As far as he is concerned, the issue is how to fight
the war in Korea to produce the military victory
he believes must be won to justify our fighting.
When the answering testimony of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff is all in, then the time will have ar
rived to weigh that issue with the utmost care and
perception. Meantime, it is enough to observe that
the general’s differences with the Administration
are on a much narrower front than was_4irst im
agined by many. @
Out of eight wives, I've only had one who got so
mad at me she forgot akout money.—Temmy Man
ville.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
Weekly Bible Lesson
Bible Should Not Be Censored
By WILLIAM E. GILROY, D. D,
“God’s mills grind slow but
sure,” wrote the poet, George Her
bert, and that variously requoted
fact was’ manifest in the course
and destiny of the Southern King
dom of the Jewish people, the
Kingdom of Judah, and the two
tribes that remained loyal to Re
hoboam, when the 10 tribes re-
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volted under Jeroboam.
That Kingdom lasted for 136
years after the Northern Kingdom
fell, but it began under a king,
Rehoboam, threatening to chastise
his subjects with scorpiens, where
his father, Solomon, had chastised
them with whips. It was a bad
‘beginning, and most of its course,
‘and its kings, continued the evil.
There is, indeed, much of blood
shed and tragedy in the historical
books of the Bible, along with so
much that is good and noble, that
a correspondent who reads my
column has suggested that for the
reading of the Bible today much
of the records of crueltv and
bloodshed should be omitted.
It is a “suggestion with which T
cannot agree, though it is justified
lin a_ limited way. It is obvious
that certain parts of the Bible are
not well suited for public or fam
ily reading, and this fact has led
to the compilations of selections
well adapted for such use. Many
years ago, in Ontario, where the
reading of a portion of Scripture
each day was mandatory in the
public schools, the Hon. G. W.
Ross, then Minister of Education,
issued such compilation, which
I think was excellent for its pur
pose; but his pclitical opponents
made a great outcry, as if he had
blasphemed against the Good
Book, in doing what other reverent
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But for my own part I do not
want expurgated books. I assume
that if they need censoring I am
as competent to do my own cen
soring as to have it done by some,
possibly incompetent, censorious
person. And above all, I do not
want my Bible expurgated or cen
sored.
I count it one of the great glo
ries of the Bible that it is a book
of remarkable realism and hon
esty. It does not suppress facts
unfavorable to the Jewish people,
or to their greatest leaders and
heroes. Their faults and mistakes,
their very sins (often deepdyed,
as in the case of David’s virtual
murder of Uriah), are set down
with grim honesty, and without
any alleviating word.
The glory of the Bible comes in
the setting down of the good as
-‘well, and in that ggeat, glad, hope
ful fact of the good emerging and
triumphing over evil, as out of
dark and troubled times the pro
phets stand forth in righteousness,
and He, whose coming the pro
phets foretold, brings the fullness
of love and truth to light.
A history of our times would be
wholly dishonest and wrong, if
along with all that is good and
sublime in our times, it did not
record the horrors of Hitlerism,
and the later horrors of Soviet
concentration camps.
“POLITICAL” KIDNAPPINGS
VIENNA. — (AP) — “Political”
kidnappings in Austria occur
weekly. One of the latest was a
six-year-old boy.
A divorce court awarded the
mother custody of the child. The
father successfully appealed,
claiming the mother was a Com
munist and a drunkard, Deprived
of the child, the mother went to
the Russian Kommandantura. Rus
sian officers ordered the father to
hand the child back. |
When the father was separated
a second time from his son against
the law, he decided to “kidnap”
the child. He did so, and now is
living as a “refugee” in wcstern
Austria, out of the reach of the
Russians and his divorced wife,
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