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Nome, Alaska, Monday, August 14. 1950
ANNIVERSARY OF BROKEN DREAMS
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The Second World War ended five years ago today
with the surrender of Japan. In the days that followed
here’s what people were saying: ;
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Moscow: “I see noth
ing in the future that would prevent Russia and the
United States from being the closest possible friends. If
we are really going to be friends we must really under
stand each other.” ;
President Truman: “This is the day for the demo
crats. This is the day when we can start on our real task
of implementation of free government in the world
where we are faced with the greatest task we’ve ever
been faced with. ... I know we are going td do it.”
Dr. Syngman Rhee, chairman of the Korean commis
sion: “The Japanese surrender means the end of a long
nightmare of terror and oppression in Korea. The Ko
rean people will be forever grateful to the American
people. ...”
lzvestia, otiicial boviet newspaper: lhe cause ol
world peace and the freedom and security of peoples has
triumphed.”
Milton D. Cohn, national commander of the Disabled
American Veterans: “The DAV hopes that the crushing
of Japan ends wars for all time.”
Winston Churchill warned of the spread of commun-,
ism and said of the atom bomb: “So far as we know,j
there are perhaps three or four years before the great!
progress in the United States can Be overtaken. In these j
three years, we must remold the relationships of all men j
of all nations in such a way that these men do not wish,
or dare, to fall upon each other for the sake of vulgar,
outdated ambition or for passionate differences in ide
ologies, and that international bodies by supreme au-;
thority may give peace on earth and justice among men.
Our pilgrimage has brought us to a sublime moment
in the history of the world.” j
Josef Stalin to Chiang Kai-Shek: “I wish to express
the certainty that friendship and cooperation of our
countries together, all the freedom-loving nations will
serve the cause of universal peace and the prosperity of
all peoples."
Gen. Douglas MacArthur: “We have had our last
chance. If we do not devise some greater and morei
equitable system Armageddon will be at our door.”
John W. Synder, director of reconversion: “I believe
we are on the threshold of one of the greatest eras that
mankind has even known.”
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THE MISSING FACTOR IN STATESMANSHIP
(Dr. Paul Campbell) ]
Many people feel that the world needs changing and
they do not know where to begin. As we survey what is ■
happening in the world today, whether it is Korea, the
London docks, Western Germany, the Middle East, or
the Far East, we see and sense that there is a missing
factor irl the statesmanship of the world. I believe that!
this missing factor is a very simple one—that we have
forgotten that there is an inspired ideology for democ
racy, an inspired ideology for the world, foil every man
and £very nation.
The last ten years have shown that the democracies
without an ideology can win a war; but so far the de
mocracies without an ideology have failed to build a
peace, because peace is much more than the ending of
armed conflict. Te build peace we need the same pas-i
sion and force to unit with people and other nations as
we need to fight against them when we make war. That!
■demands a quality in the life of men and nations, that
we have not had up till now. \
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Never pray for great opportunities—Pray rather for!
willingness to do little things in a great way. i
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Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
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Red infantry launched a frontal
attack! and the First Cavalry met
it with bayonets. A force in the
rear came out of hiding simultan
eously.
Other elements of the American
division were rushed in to protect
the rear of the Seventh. Both Red
forces were routed and as they'
ran back toward the river the
American artillery zeroed in on
the bridge.
Monday, August 14, 1950
Central Front: Reds poise 60,000
troops along Naktong northwest
of Taegi for expected blow at
American inland base. Americans
and South Koreans wipe out prob
ing attacks on central sector. Red
general offensive reported immin
ent.
Shangnyong sector: On south
ern flank of central front, Ameri
can 24th Division attacks Red
bridgehead, gains up to a mile in
drive with artillery and tank sup
port on six-mile front 23 miles
southwest of Taegu.
Eastern sector: Red battalion
holds Pohang, former U. S. supply
port; U. N. forces still hold air
strip, but planes no longer are
using it.
Southern sector: Marine and in
fantry take hills outside rubbled
Chinju.
Air war: “Tiny Tim,” a big new
American 11.75-inch rocket, has
gone into combat with reported
good results. Fired from carrier
based navy Corsair fighters, the
armor piercing rockets knocked
out 13 enemy locomotives and
damaged 23 more, blasted eight
ammunition cars, set afire two
fuel trains and beat up seven
troop-train cars. One “Tiny Tim”
rocket knocked out a bridge at
Chunpu, 80 miles northewst of
Taegu, on the Red supply line.
Like the 3.5-inch bazooka anti
tank gun used by ground troops,
the “Tiny Tim” got its baptism
in the Korean war. It is consider
ed the most powerful rocket-type
weapon carried by a plane in
combat.
Other planes rake Red troops
installations along the front.
STRASBOURG, France, (/P) —
Constantin Tsaldaris of Greece
proposed that Western European
governments immediately negoti
ate for a unified army td defend
the Continent against the threat
| WU. S. Bombers Kill
! 7,000 In Seoul”
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MOSCOW, (/P)—1Two North Ko
rean correspondents for the liter
ary Gazette reported Saturday
that United States bombers have
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killed 7,000 persons in Seoul, the
South Korean capital now held by
the northern communists.
The dispatches were datelined
Pyongyang, capital of North Ko
; ivy, and said hundreds of homes
wore also wrecked in Pyongyang.
The accounts in the Literary Ga
zeette said that “if the blood of
the Korean people which has been
shed by the Americans on this lit
tle Peninsula were poured on the
White House, it long ago would
have been drowned in blood.”
(This is in line with the Soviet
propaganda theme on the Korean
issue—to portray the Americans
c'S aggressors and to stir up hatred
against the United Nations’ forces
battling the invading North Ko
ch n Reds).
of communist aggression. He ask
ed the European Council’s Consul
tative Assembly to entrust its
president, Paul-Henri Spaak of
Belgium, with carrying out pre
liminary steps. Winston Churchill,
Britain’s Conservative leader, pro
posed such a unified army in a
speech to the assembly Friday
and the assembly approved the
idea.
LONDON, (/P) — Britain’s Con
servative and Liberay Party lead
ers asked Prime Minister Attlee
to recall Parliament from its sum
mer recess earlier than the Sept.
12 date he has set. Churchill, war
time Prime Minister, said Sept. 12
was “altogether too remote.”
BRUSSELS, (/P) — Prince Bau
douin, who has taken over the
powers of his father, King Leo
pold, as ruler of Belgium, has
named acting foreign minister
Paul van Zeeland premier-desig
nate, charged with the ticklish
job of forming an all Social Chris
tian Party cabinet.
TAIPEI, Formosa, GP)—Nation
alist China’s air force said it
would continue to patrol the Red
China coast and attack commun
ist craft which might be used to
invade Formosa, island stronghold
of the Nationalists. The air force
said it would defend Formosa in
“full cooperation with our Allied
forces,” referring to the U. S. fleet
ordered by President Truman to
defend Formosa.
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Assn. Against Anti
Reservation Clause
Not Statehood
WASHINGTON (/P)—The Asso
ciation on American Indian Af
fairs said last week that Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska was “inaccu
rate” in charging in a House
speech that the Association op
poses the Alaska Statehood bill.
“The Association is opposed to
the anti-reservation clause in the
bill and asks that the clause be
stricken out,” Association presi
dent Oliver La Farge said in a
statement.
That clause prohibits the inte
rior department from designating
any Indian reservations in the
Territory until statehood is at
tained.
“In effect we will ask that the
bill be improved by amendment,”
La Farge said. “This is very dif
ferent from opposing the bill.
“Our organization and officers
have recently stated publicly and
■ in letters to Congress that the
anti-reservation clause must be
eliminated because it is detrimen
tal to Alaskan native rights, will
retard the progress of the new
state, and at this time will endan
ger our Alaskan defense as well
as the prestige and good will of
the United States.”
In his speech to the House, Del
egate Bartlett referred to the As
sociation on American Indian Af
fairs in connection with a letter
he said La Farge wrote Senator
O’Mahoney, chairman of the Sen
ate interior committee, on July 25.
Bartlett quoted a portion of the
letter in which La Farge said “It
is possible under the Alaska Re
organization act of May 1, 1936,
for natives to obtain clear title to
their lands by negotiation.”
Bartlett then told the House,
“That statement runs directly
counter to the conclusions of the
Supreme Court of the United
States.
“In May of 1949 . . . The Su
preme Court stated that the sec
retary of the interior cannot dis
pose of federal lands through any
authority conferred upon him by
Section 2 of the Act of May 1,
1936. . . ”
Earlier in his half hour speech,
Bartlett said, “My personal con
viction is that these organizations
devoted to the protection of mi
nority rights have been badly
fooled .... by a few individuals
seeking personal profit who are
now opposing statehood because
they far it would interfer with
their highly personal plans.”
Russia Will Reply
To Lend-Lease Note
WASHINGTON, i/P) — Russia
has promised to reply to a new de
mand from the United States for
settlement of Moscow’s long over
due lend-lease account.
Andrei Gromkyo, Soviet deputy
foreign minister, gave the pledge
in Moscow this week to American
Ambassador Alan Kirk.
Officials heer gave no indica
tion as to when the Russian reply
may be expected. It was generally
anticipated that Soviet officials
would be slow to make any ac
ceptable offer for clearing the
books of the nearly eleven billion
dollar American claim.
However, there was some hope
that the reply will provide defin
ite information of the where
abouts of 100 small naval craft
whose return the United States
has been demanding for the past
three years.