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The Washington Notebook
i BY PETER EDSON
} NEA Washington Correspondent
' WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —How much has the
Korean war cost?
Lyle S. Garlock, acting assistant secretary and
comptroller of the Department of Defense, says it's
impossible to tell, and he should know.
How do you measure the cost of the 70,000 Am=
e .can casualties, for instance? Or how do you es=-
timate the life and property damage in Korea?
Questions like these indicate the imponderables in
trying to nrake any calculations.
There is only one rough figure that might be
used on the cost of the first year’s war in Korea. In
the government’s fiscal year ending June 30, 1950,
Department of Defense spent 13% billion dollars.
For the year ending June 30, expenditures will be
about 19% billion.
Make a simple subtraction and the answer comes
out six billion dollars for the first year, if you
charge all the increased defense effort to the Ko
rean war.
As for making any specific accounting on what
it takes to run the Korean campaign, however,
Defense officials say it can’t be done. Books can’t
be kept on war the way they are in business.
There were a lot of World War II type fighter
planes in the Pacific theater when war broke out.
They were rapidly becoming obsolete as they were
to be replaced by jets. Air Force was about to
write off the cost of the old jobs and scrap them.
But they saved the day in the early Korean fight
ing. So are the costs of the planes shot down in
Korea to be charged off at zero—their scrap value
—or at the full original price?
THAT SLOW BOAT TO KOREA
It takes an estimated 210 days for supplies to
flow through the pipeline from the United States
to the Korean battle front. In between are U. S.
warehouse stocks, reserves kept at ports of em
barkation on the Pacific coast, goods in transit by
slow freighter, supplies at ports of debarkation and
dumps behind the lines. Are the supplies to be
charged off as a war cost when they enter the pipe
line, or only when they are expended at the front?
Defense officials know how many tons of sup
plies they have shipped to the Korean frant, but
beyond that they lose county. They know what pay
and subsistence conres to for the six U. S. Army
and one Marine divisions, the Air Force and Navy
personnel in the Pacific theater. This is more than
a third of present U. S. Army combat strength,
though much less that fraction for Navy and Air.
But this is only a beginning of the outlay. There
are ten South Korean divisions which are wholly
equipped and maintained by U, S. supplies. British
Commonwealth, Turkish, Greek, French, Thai and
other United Nations contingents also draw most of
their supplies from the U. S. pipeline. This aid is
furnished on a reimbursable basis, however, and
it’s the job of the State Department to collect for
whatever is furnished.
All these are complicating factors to make ac
counting next to impossible. And a country doesn’t
go to war on a basis of what it can afford, anyway.
For next year, the Departnrent of Defense budget
requested by President Truman totals S6O billion,
Actual expenses wiil be about S4O billion, or double
the present year’s rate. By comparison, the 1942
budget was $94 billion and expenditures $23 billion.
KOREA WILL BE RUN ON STOP-GAP BUDGET
The 1942 budget is terribly late in being sub
mitted to the Congress. Appropriations Committee
hearings beginning this week can’t possibly be con
cluded and the bill passed by Congress before the
fiscal year begins on July 1. Some kind of stop-gap
legislation will have to be passed to give the armed
forces spending money till the bill is finaHy ap
proved and signed by the President.
Reason for the delay is that the Defense budget
had to be completely recalculated in December,
This was after the Chinese Communists entered
the Korean war. It created a new world situation
which made all past military estimates obsolete.
. A team of some 45 Defense Department fiscal
experts worked double time for two months, whip
ping the new budget in shape for submission to
Congress on May 1. It had no more than been com
pleted when President Truman called for a new
review to cut back expenditures where procure
ment was proceeding too rapidly.
~ What they are trying to stop are cases like the
one uncovered by Rep. John Taber in which 85 mil
lion coffee bags had been ordered for immediate
delivery. It was enough to last for years.
How much Congress will be able to cut from the
Defense budget is anybody’s guess. Senator Taft has
talked as a $35 billion U. S. Defense budget, for a
three-million-man armed force, instead of three
and-a-half million.
Assuming that the war does not spread beyond
Korea, Department of Defense estimates that the
1953 military budget will be under S6O billion,
though spending will be over next year’s S4O bil
lion. The levelling off period should begin in 1954.
Each man must recognize every other man has
the same human digntty, whether he be Negro,
Nordic er Jew.—Stewart Lynch, president, National
£ mncil of Catholic men.
Failure of Communist Offensive
Indicates Korean Stalemate
General Ridgway is not yet claiming that the
Chinese Reds’ spring offensive has been finally
crushed. He declares only that we scored a great
victory in turning back its first phase.
Since that drive was blunted, American recon
naissance reports a new build-up of Comnrunist
strength. It is logical to expect another try, inas
much as the initial attack was of relatively short
duration and can hardly classify as an all-out bid
to throw us into the sea.
Yet on this we might be fooled. UN forces in
flicted more than 70,000 casualties on the Red Chi
nese in their abortive attempt to recapture Seoul.
No army on earth can sustain losses of that size
without feeling the hurt.
There are scattered signs that the Reds might not
undertake a second phase of their spring campaign.
The siege of Seoul has been lifted. Chinese are re
ported once mor pulling back to or beyond the
much-crossed 38th parallel. Red prisoners tell their
captors “the war is over.”
All this may be designed to deceive, and Amer
ican commanders are not trusting such signs. But it
is at least a possibility that the Chinese Communists
have had all they want in the way of punishment
for some time.
It may even be occurring to Chinese leaders that
there is no good point in any further offensive now
or ever in Korea, so long as it must be conducted
as was their spring drive. For that campaign fea
tured no important use of armor. It made the Chi
nese soldier a human battering ram, and when it
was over his broken body lay in a Korean ditch.
Red China can repeat this kind of offensive if it
is willing to face the likelihood that 70,000 or 80,000
casualties will be the consequence. If not, it can
either give up in Korea or appeal to the Russians
for greater assistance,
Up to now Russian aid has fallen short of what
the Chinese would need for a successful offensive,
This may be deliberate on the Kremlin's part, to
keep China embroiled with UN forces and thus
more dependent on the Soviet Union. Or, as Gen
eral MacArthur suggests, it may be due to failures
in the long, slender supply line stretching from
European Russia across to Manchuria.
That aid might ultimately be forthcoming. It is
even possible, too, that Russia herself might enter
the conflict rather than see Korea held by the West.
But if that does not happen, then the evidence
offered by the Chinese Reds’ spring drive strongly
suggests that they may never mount a winning
offensive against us. Just as we, with present
forces, are considered unlikely to roll the Reds back
to the Yalu River, so the Chinese, as presently
equipped, may prove unable to push us south of
our stable Han River line.
Unless new elements are soon introduced, a mil
itary stalemate now seems to be at hand.
Driving It Home
One undisclosed reason for John Foster Dulles’
trip to London is to get a clearer understanding of
American aims across to new British Foreign Min
ister Herbert Morrison.
It was not just to get a British agreement to the
U. S. draft on Japanese peace treaty, U. S. State
and Defense Department officials have a clear un
derstanding and good working arrangements with
British embassy and military missions in Washing
ton. They have general agreement on most policies.
But the London governmrent has not been paying
too much attention to what its U. S. representatives
have been saying, it is said.
America heartily welcomes Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion of Israel to its shores. As head of the
newest nation on earth, he is a reminder to us that
the urge to self-determination still burns brightly
in the hearts of many whose history has been
clouded by hardship. What a healthy contrast is this
example to the dismal spectacle of other equally
proud peoples in central Europe and elsewhere
falling prey to Russian communism. As the free
world encourages the birth of new countries like
Israel and Libya, it must never abandon as totally
lost the freedom-loving folk of Poland, Czechoslo
vakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and other vic
tims of the predatory Reds. ks
Smithsonian Institution in Washington has just
placed on exhibition a new collection of letters
fromr John Adams, second U. S. president. Promi
nent in the collection is one letter saying, “If I were
to go over my life again, I would be a shoemaker
rather than an American statesman.”
All our statements in behalf of democracy and
liberty will fall on closed ears in Asia unless we
act in accordance with principles of human dignity
and brotherhood.—Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
(D.-Minnesota).
America is not in the habit of ordering its armies
to fight on foreign soil and then forgetting about
them. — Senator Styles Bridges (R.-New Hamp
shire).
Everyone is expected to prove his anti-commun
ism not by a wise strategy calculated to defeat
communism but by apopletic rigidity.—Dr. Rein
" hold Uiebur, dean of faculty, Union Theological
Seminary.
Most people who gamble are just like women
shoppers — they are trying to get something for
nothing.—Dr. Dwight M, Palmer, chief of psychia
try department, Ohio State University.
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"Global Strategist” In History
LEXINGTON, Va, May 16.—
(AP)—Bernard M. Baruch yester
day upheld the concept of global
defense against Communism and
hailed Secretary of Defense
George C. Marshall as *“history’s
first global strategist.”
In his first formal comment on
the controversy stirred up by
President Truman’s firing of Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur, the elder
statesman called for a huge in
crease in the military strength of
the United States and her allies in
order to ensure success in a glo
bal defense progrant.
Baruch did not mention Mac-
Arthur by name, but in a speech
prepared for delivery on “George
Catlett Marshall Day” at Virginia
Military Institute, he said:
“I wonder how much of the
controversy in recent days is really
a reflection of the difference be
tween the leader of troops and the
organizer.
“A great leader of troops natu
rally is zealous in desiring that
when his men become locked in
battle that every resource be mar
shalled which might increase the
chance of their winning or de=
creasing their losses. The very
qualities which made him so val
iant a leader of troops would make
him impatient of any limitations
on his action.”
An arch was to be dedicated to
‘Marshall, a VMI graduate, at the
ceremony honoring the U. S. Sec
retary of Defense.
Baruch, a presidential adviser in
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two world wars, has differed with
President Trunran of late.
Baruch said in his address that
he put the concept of global de
fense, which “saved the free world
once and which can save it again,”
ahead of any other consideration
in U. S. policy planning,
But Baruch said that global de
fense could succeed only by a tre=
mendous increase in the military
strength of the United States and
the rest of the free world.
State Convention
Of DAY Set For
Macon May 25-21
W. W. Deßeaugrine, State
Commander of Disabled Ameri
can Veterans and manager of the
Athens Branch Office of State
Employment Service, has an
nounced that the state convention
of DAV is to be held in Macon
May 25-27.
“Elaborate plans have been
made for the largest and best
state convention ever held,” Com
mander Deßeaugrine stated in an
interview here yesterday.
Four outstanding speakers are
scheduled to appear on the con
vention program. Mayor Lewis B.
Wilson, of Macon, and Governor
Herman Talmadge are slated to
speak on Friday, May 25. Gen.
R. V. Ognico, commanding offi
cer of Warner Robbins Air Base,
will address the delegates Satur
day morning, May 26, and Nation
al DAV Commander Boniface R.
Maile, of Michigan will be the
closing speaker Saturday after
noon. Many other dignitaries are
planning to attend the convention,
including the state commander
of four other veterans’ organiza-
Railroad Schedules
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tlons.
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expected to attend. All members
of the organization are urged to
make arr&ngoments to be present
for the efitire convention,
Brifish Support
Of Anti-Red
Action Pledged
NEW YORK, May 16 — (AP) —
Sir Gladwyn Jebb, chief British
delegate to the United Nations, has
pledged that Britain will stand
“whole-heartedly with the United
States in the general struggle
against Communist-inspired ag
gression.”
Jebb defended Britain’s record
in the Xorean War and her trade
poliey toward Red China in a
speech before the New York City
Bar Assoeiation.
Great Britain, he declared, “is
wholeheartedly with the United
States in the general struggle
against Communist - inspired ag
gression, Everything we can do,
short of fatally weakening our
main position, to_assist the general
effort, we shall do, even if that
results, as it may well result, in
some lowering of the standard of
living in Great Britain itself,
which has been so laboriously
built up sinee the war.”
He said that Britain early in the
war halted exports of strategic.
materials to Communist China,
particularly petroleum products,
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but not rubber. Now, he said, |
rubber shipments also are em- |
bargoed. :
The British diplomat predicted
that the U. N. General Assembly |
will adopt far-reaching embargo \
recommendations later this week, |
'The 60-national assembly political |
committee meets at Flushing Mea
dow tomorrow to open debate on
the embargo plan, recommended
by a 12-nation sanctions eommit.
tee Monday.
Britain is joining the U, §,
France, Australia and Venezuela
in presenting the resolution. It
calls for halting export of arms,
ammunition, atomic energy ma
terials, petroleum and other war
materials to Red China,
Jebb told the bar association he
had “often heard it alleged that
we had subordinated our support
for the United Nations to our own
commercial interests in Hong
Kong.”
“Nothing could be further from
the truth,” he declared.
“In these days, we are deriving
very little direct benefit from
trade with China and it would be
ludicrous to suggest that, when
the whole existence of the western
world is at stake, we should give
priority to such eommercial in
terests.”
He said that Hong Kong depend
ed on transit trade and that if all
trade—outside of war materials—
were cut off with Red China, “we
should lose a certain amount of
useful imports from China, a vast
unemployment problem would be
| created, and civil unrest would
arise over a lasge area in the Far
East.”
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