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THESE DAYS
Ilf MEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
THE HONOLULU CONFERENCE
On July 29, 1944, President Frank
lin D Roosevelt and General Dout,
lfs MacArthur ended a foqr day
visit in Honolulu. Present were Ad
mirals Chester W. Nimitz and Wil
liam F. Halsey, Jr. and others. Ad
miral William D. Leahy and Elmer
Davis, then head of the OWI, ac
companied the President.
The purpose of this conference
was to discuss the Pacific war and
its relationship to the entire pic
ture. General MacArthur took the
position that the re-conquest of
the Phillippines would split the
Japanese Empire, that our Naval
activities would leave the Japanese
homeland without an adequate sup
ply of rice which is the essential
food of the Japanese people. Thus,
the Japanese would be starved into
an unconditional surrender. Con
\ersely, it would deprive their for
ces of support from the homeland.
Soviet Russia was, in 1944, neu
tral in our war with Japan. Roose
velt had. at Teheran, raised the
issue of Russian participation but
had not accomplished it. MacAr
thur’s attitude was that if the
strategy of starvation of Japan
w'ere pursued, it would be of no
advantage to the United States for
Soviet Russia to come in. He fear
ed Russia's demands upon China—
a fear that was subsequently justi
fied by the facts.
That Japan was starved into sub
mission is an established historic
fact, fully documented at the Tok
yo trials. Even before the atom
bomb was hurled at Hiroshima,
Japan was a broken nation. My
own private information from Jap
anese friends of long standing
makes this clear. As long as Japan
had food, she could fight. She col
lapsed with 3,000,000 uncommitted
troops because her food was un
available.
Yet. Dean Acheson, in his defense
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of Yalta, makes the point that in
February 1945, Roosevelt was for
ced to make the enormous conces
sions he did made to Soviet Russia
with regard to China, Manchuria
and Korea because he was so
anxious to get Russia into the Far
Eastern war; he was uncertain of
victory; the atom bomb was not
yet a success.
It is beyond understanding that
Roosevelt, in February 1945, was ob
livious to the great success that
MacArthur and Nimitz had al
ready achieved in the Pacific. The
Philippines had been invaded and
the first cavalry and other forces
were already in Manila. Shipping
off the China coast was being
bombed by our planes. Tire con
quest of Japan by starvation, ex
plained to Roosevelt at Honolulu in
1944, was actually becoming effect
ive.
Roosevelt could not have been so
pessimistic that he could have be
lieved that it was necessary to give
Russia a free hand in China, Man
churia and Northern Korea.
Besides, for this enormous com
pensation, Russia agreed to come
into the Far Eastern war, three
months after the Germans were
defeated. It must have been clear
on February 11, 1945, to anyone who
could calculate, that three months
after Germany was defeated, in
view of what was already happen
ing to Japan, the Japanese would
not be able to stand against the
additional power that would be
freed for Pacific warfare. Up to
that time, the Pacific area had had
only a small fraction of our power.
No discussion of Yalta by those
who were present at that confer
ence, thus far, explains Roosevelt’s
generosity to Stalin. Nor why he vi
olated his own principles as stated
in the Atlantic charter by trans
ferring territory from one country
to another without the consent of
ihe deprived country.
Acheson's explanation that China
consented is adroit but untrue. The
documentation of the case proves
otherwise. What is true is that
Roosevelt undertook to get Chiang
Kai-Shek to agree to the terms ar
ranged at Yalta. This is included
in the Yalta agreement and I quo
| ted the text of it in a recent ar
i tide. Chiang was in no condition
1 to flout Roosevelt at that time.
T. V. Soong, on June 30, 1945,
was in Moscow. He conferred with
Stalin. A treaty of friendship was
! ratified (August 24, 1945) to respect
1 each other’s sovereignty and terri
' torial integrity. The Russian got-’
j ernment pledged itself not to in
I terfere in the internal affairs of
China. The two countries agreed to
mutual aid against any future Jap
anese aggression. The treaty was to
last 30 years. Soviet Russia was vi
olating the treaty while it was be
ing signed.
It is beyond understanding that
Dean Aeheson did not discuss those
matters precisely as they occurred.
Maybe, they were not called to his
attention or he was not questioned
about them. I have tried to read
the 2,000,000 words of testimony;
yet, I did not find these pertinent
facts.
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launched their invasion of South
Korea ,, .
The first U. S. action was to direct
that American sea and air power
ro to the aid of the South Koreans.
Johnson related that this decision
was taken at a June 26, 1950, White
House meeting on motion of Ache
son.
Conferences Held
Johnson also said he had Jong
felt we couldn't go along with the
Russian policy of bleeding us dry in
Korea forever."
But in-testimony at the hearings,
the former secretary of defense de
clined to endorse the proposals from
Mac Arthur for hitting directly at
Red China in an effort to end th
war He pleaded in part that he had
been out of the government since
last Sept. 18 and lacked information
Johnson gave a closeup picture of
the conferences President Truman
held with his advisers when the
Korean war broke out in June i950,
and he pulled into the open old dif
ferences between the Defense and
State Departments over policy to
ward Formosa.
No Personalities
But Johnson, who was bounced
from the cabinet last September
after feuding with Acheson, told the
senators he was not going to violate
confidences or "indulge in personal
' mes.
He related:
1 At a White House meeting on
I june 26,1950, Acheson, reading from
a prepared statement, moved that
1 sea and air forces be sent to aid
the South Koreans. Johnson said.
“The military neither recommended
it nor opposed"
2. He and Acheson had a "really
violent discussion" over Formosa but
; in the end Acheson agreed the U.S.
7th Fleet should be ordered to pro
tect the island from Communist in
vasion and made the motion to do
that.
Proposal Overruled
1 3. He had wanted in 1949 to send
a U.S. military mission to the Chi
| nese Nationalists on Formosa but
I President Truman overruled him
: because of “political” protests from
the State Department.
4. Despite reports to the contrary,
there were no intelligence reports
received in Washington "that put
us on notice anything was going to
happen in Korea” before the Com
munists attacked there. He said
| \J|cArthur had no responsibility at
that time for Korea and it was not
thfe general’s duty to report cn
Korea.
5. The U.S. troops in Japan were
not prepared for a fight when the
I war broke out because they were
organized and trained for occupa
tion duty.
In discussing Formosa, Johnson
said it was only after the fighting
began in Korea that the State De
partment shifted its position and
“no longer opposed doing things to
keep Formosa from falling into un
friendly hands.”
1951 FINE SEASON
FOR GULNETTERS
TAKU RIVER AREA
—
Gillnet fishing on the Taku River
this past season proved to be one
of the best so far on record, ac
cording to figures of the U. S. Fish
and Wildlife Service.
Richard F. Shuman, fisheries
management biologist, reported that
a total of 9,059 kings were taken.
Over the past five years average
take was 5,294 fish, giving the 1951
season an increase of 71.1 per cent.
Shuman pointed out that ftiis was
exceptionally good especially in
view of the fact that there was
more gear in the water. The num
ber oi boats fishing per day brought
an increase in fishing gear to 29.2
per cent. The average number of
boats this year was 34.1 as compar
ed with a mean of 26.4 per day
over the past five years.
“Despite it being quite evident
that the 1951 run of kings on the
Taku was considerably better than
average for the five years is shown,"
Shuman said, “by the total catch
and particularly by the fact that
the average catch per boat per day
jumped from 9.4 to 12.1 in the sea
son just passed which is an in
crease of fish per boat day of 28.7
per cent.”
Asked what the indications were
for next season, Shuman said that
his guess would be to look for a
poor run. He emphasized this was
purely a guess but was based on
ugures of past years.
Fish caught this year, he said,
were from 1946, which was a good
brood year. The brood year of 1947
was not good so therefore the re
turn in 1952 could be expected to be
sub-normal.
Price paid this year was thirty
one and one half cents per pound
ip the round.
Alice Strombeck of Ketchikan is
at the Gastineau Hotel.
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Wedemeyer Arrives te Testify
Lt Gen. Albert C. Wcdemeyer. Sixth Army comm aider. (left), with headquarters at the Presidio of
San Francisco, talks with Senators Styles Bridges (R-NH) (center) and Richard B. Russell (D-GA)
before beginning his testimony on the Far East situation before thr combined Armed Service and foreign
Relations commitees in Washington (AP Wirephoto)
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167 CARRIED ON
ALASKA COASTAL
TUESDAY FLIGHTS
A total cf 167 passengers were car
ried on Alaska Coastal Airlines
Tuesday flights with 26 on inter
port, 94 departing and 47 arriving.
Departing for Sitka: J. Otte. L.
Tilson, Lydia Ann Tilson, R. Wil
liams, C. Wyller, C. Barrel, Ed.
Hamilton, Mrs. Parvlicki, L. Lind
strom, Andrew Hope, Rev. Whelan,
Mrs. Dave Brown, George Hendirk
son, Wes Turner. Bob Haffner, El
roy #7eek, Mr. and Mrs. James Car
ey, Annette Tyrrel, Hazel Sievers,
Leslie Yaw, John Bahrt, Robert
Wymann.
For Todd: Mr. Stockwell; for
Fish Bay: W. Westfall, H. Loewen;
for Lake Hasselburg: S. Bancroft;
or Hoonah: Emil Mehline; for Pel- |
ican: Sally Wetche; for Chatham: j
Jerry Likness; for Excursion Inlet:
F. Binschus.
For Hawk Inlet: S. A. Moer, R.
Peter, Lew Kimetat. Richard Mar
tin, James Harmon,' J. T. Dixon,
Larry Tuohy, L. Stiles, Joseph
Stiles, Joseph Cannon, T. P. Free
man, Murray Andrews, C. Mason,
Donald Stillman, E. Sagueland, S.
Scott, Dick Kroetch, Karl Slodin,
Earl Magnuson, W. E. Morton, B.
srooice.
Fcr Wrangell: Delores Mattela,
N. Iverson; for Petersburg: H. A.
Baker, Tim Casey; for Ketchikan:
F. Nohmaim, Mr. and Mrs. Davis,
W. A. Swanson, Dr. E. J. Schantz,
Paul Schoening, Bert Ronnestad,
H. E. Schassler, Oscar Storm, E.
Lindstrom, C. R. Hewes, Rod Cam
eron, Tom Bomstead, Mrs. J. C.
Mickelson, David Mickelson, J. Pen
man, Gray Tilly, Alvin J. Moore,
N. W. Largen, Patsy Anderson,
Mrs. M. Anderson, Charles Wilson,
R. O. Ronsor, George Sullivan, Sgt.
Joel Hegepath, H. Casperson.
For Tulsequah: J. Bernard, L.
Lavallec. John Kantymeyer; for
Haines: P. M. Dcogan, J. Daemestke
W. B. Kimball, A. Wanamaker, F.
Donnelly. Martin Cordes, Mildred
Sparks, Ed Hurby; for Skagway: J.
Dodge.
Arriving from Skagway: Reynolds
Young, W. B. Bates, B. Hern, Gail
Brlnhail, W. Preve; from Haines:
J. Williams, U. C. Savikki, Margar
et Pyle, Dr. and Mrs. Pyle and son;
B. Goodenough, Mrs. Rodgers, Ed
Kruby.
From Ketchikan: Fritz Frolich,
Bill Wood, R. Carlson, J. Kristo
vich, Harold Brindle, Norman Car
penter, Christine Hellar; from Pet
ersburg: B. W. Jackson, A. Wil
liams; from Funter Bay: Emil
Lade; from Excursion Inlet: H. D.
Rowe, L. McKinley; from Elfin
Cove: E. Bakke, R. L. Longworth.
From Tenakee: Mrs. E. Johnson,
Mrs. D. Hewitt; from Pelican; J.
Andersen; from Hoonah: Mrs. F.
Wright; from Fish Bay: W. West
fall; from Pelican: Helmar Bery;
from Cobol; Jolen Bolyan; from
Sitka: Pauline Brown, H. Weitz,
A. Bandeteim, R. Williams, Mrs.
Tonsgard, H. Hermanson, C. Mason,
J. Crooks. Etta Leavitt, M. Ninge
ok, Rebecca Huglene, S. Moore,
N. Orcutt.
MINING ENGINEER
GOES THROUGH HERE
j. G. Adderson, Seattle consult
ing mining engineer, overnighted
in Junea\i enroute to Seattle. He
had accompanied H. Kurushema,
president of the Dowa Mining Co.
of Tokyo, Japan, from Seattle to
Anchorage. The Japanese company
is interested in Alaskan iron ores
and other metals. Adderson expects
to make another Investigation tiip
up here soon.
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