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Sports-Want ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Markets PART TWO ST; LOUIS, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1951 PAGES 1 14-B Editorial Page Daily Cartoon aiMfflOfflaiii CHIMG vs. The REDS? ALSOP Evidence of Close Calls Over Korea Atomic Story Brought Up to Date: 'A' Planes. Submarines, Artillery Shells Seem Assured for Future Hull and Motor for Submersible Now Being Built; Craft May Be Launched Next Year Army Going All-Out for Nuclear Red Terror Shown in Story Of Clementis Arrest of Czech Official Emphasizes Fear in the Soviet World. Gsn.

Chennault Thinks China Lost i the Reds if America Does Not Rearm and Use Chiang's Forces Nationalist Army Is Good, He Says, Though Worn, Poorly Equipped and Short of Ammunition In Manpower and Willingness to Fight, Formosa Is Strong. By STEWART ALSOP iCopynjat. 1931.) FoUoving is the first of a series of articles telling tne up-to-the minute, authoritative story of America's atomic program for car and peace. DarrtU Gancood, the outhor, is a veteran "Washington reporter and erpert on atomic matters. He got his information from the highest scientific end Government sources.

By DARRELL GARWOOD WASHINGTON, March 26 (INS). rp HE story of the last days of I Vladimir Clementis. former Foreign Minister of Czechoslo vakia, before he was arrested as a traitor can be told now. It is a revealing story, for it demon strates dramatically the extent to which hidden terror and the fear ARGE atomic-powered planes using the jet principle and atom-driven submarines outspeeding anything now afloat are now considered assured as future competitors for atomic fuel. 'of sudden betrayal now pervade This it the fi'tt of a terie of ly Ma).

Gen. Chennault, vho commanded the American Volunteer tiroup known ot the llying Tigers in the Chinese-Japanese War, and the United Mates Fourteenth Air Force in China during World War 11. lie now operates a civilian airline in the Orient, and icritcs from hit home on Formosa. By MA J. GEN.

CLAIRE LEE CHENNAULT TAIPEH, Formosa. UNLESS the Chinese Nationalist Army based on Formosa stops, or at least impedes, the southward sweep of Communism on the Astatic mainland, our free world may be lost That is my deep conviction. The Nationalist Army Is a good army. The Chinese troops constitute an army, a navy, an air force and a marine corps in being. With worn, fragmentary equip-! mander of the United States 7th ment, little ammunition, short ot Fleet in the Pacific, gasoline and wanting in spare 1 asked Adm.

Cooke about the and comprise nearly half the weight of fleet-type subs. tne wnoie soviet empire. Clementis has been a fanatical Communist all his life. Yet, in the course of his Communist career he made one mistake which Planes May Take ears. Military observers assume that the atomic plane, like all large aircraft, will take several years has now proved to be his undoing.

For a few to develop, and that it will oper AocitM Trw fmni T.S. Ntt. LT. (jg) KENNETH A. WADE (left), Corocado, grins as he pokes bis head through flak bole in wing tip tank of his Panther jet fighter after an armed reconnaissance mission over Korea.

LT. (jg) JAMES R. SANDERSON (right), Sanger. Calif battle damage to his Skyraider after an anti-aircraft burst during a strike at bridges In northeast Korea. They are shewn on the carrier Princeton after returning from the missions.

months he was a An atomic sub. the hull of which is under construction at Gaoton. Conn- while the motor is being built at Arco, Idaho, probably will be launched next year. The motor almost certainly will be running before the end of this year. That nuclear flight cannot be too many years away is indicated by the fact that the air force has ended its biggest research program and gone in for construction of an atomic motor at General Electric's new jet factory in Lock-land, O.

ate on the jet principle. There are many reasons to believe, without official confirmation, that atomic energy can be applied to jet thrust to achieve greater parts and machinery, these troops proposition, put forward by some are training steadily against the Americans, that aid should be' speed and lighter construction and to eliminate the heat transfer "premature antifascist," making anti-Nazi broadcasts from London to his own country, while Hitler and Stalin were formally allied. This was deviation-ism, and the flay mat they can move against given the Nationalists for a euer- problem that would be involved rilla war on the mainland and in a propeller type job. Ml A jet motor, ignoring refine Atomic Artillery Shells. The Army meanwhile is secret that mounting a massive frontal assault should wait until later.

"The answer to that," he said, ments, consists merely of a "stove Worst Poverty of West Europe Is in Spain; Ruling Class Is Rich Barcelona Riots Due to Hunger, Curtailment of Liberty and Corruption, Though Franco Tried to Put Blame on Communists. Clementis pipe" plus heat. Air rushes in at ly going all-out to develop atomic artillery shells and may even get some of them in time for use in Kremlin never forgets. Late in 1949, while Clementis Loss Military, Gain Political In Korean War Hal Boyle Expects Major Fighting to End Soon, With Area Divided. the front end of the pipe, is quickly and greatly expanded by intense heat, and is expelled much Korea.

was in this country, representing more rapidly and in much greater is that both forms of warfare should be undertaken if we are really moving to defeat Commu- nism in the ar East; There should be supplies for guerrillas and expanding supplies for ex-! panding action by the massed military forces now based on this volume at the other end of tht his government at the United Nations, reliable reports that the pipe. That principle provides the thrust. That a chain reaction can pro i island. vide sufficient heat can scarcely Kremlin had demanded the liquidation of Clementis were published in this space. Clementis denounced these reports as lies, and was photographed arm in arm with a smiling Andrei Vishinsky.

Clementis was, in fact, wholly aware that he was in danger. But Czech President Klement Gott- Over a period of years. Navy and Air Force propulsion and army artillery, as well as the H-bomb, will thus compete for the atomic fuel that formerly went into the Air Force's strategic A-bomb stockpile. A careful welching of the military advantages of different war machines and various ways of using the explosive will be needed before any program can be adopted for expending hoarded atomic potential. be doubted, since atomic heat is limited only by the temperatures that metals will withstand about By SI FREIDIN A Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

PARIS. WOULD have preferred Barcelona for this dateline, but totalitarian regimes, whether the Franco or Stalin type, cannot brook criticism. A fairly extensive tour I took a year ago in Spain HAL BOYLE By I 1800 degrees fahrenheit in the case of a jet tailpipe. That the chain reaction can be wald, a close friend of long stand makes me unwelcome there now. ing, had sent his wife to New NEW YORK (AP) THE Korean war is now nine months old.

It is a good time to take stock of the situation. What have been the profits and losses of this campaign that may be the seed of World War III or. made small enough to fit into a jet motor also cannot be doubted. Scientists have obtained a chain York with assurances that if Clementis returned he would be Chiang's Offer Genuine. The offer of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to send troops to Korea was no mere gesture.

Special, auxiliary clothing for troops fighting in extreme cold are here to be seen handmade by the wives of Nationalist Chinese soldiers in divisions selected for the front. Orders were formally issued for selection of interpreters to go with the troops. Disappointment at the United Nations' refusal to accept the Nationalist offer was keen and is still-evident. All but 3500 of the half-milion- Everywhere I saw the average Spaniard struggling in the grip of the most appalling stabilized poverty in Western Europe. Barcelona Navy experts believe the new submarine will combine unlimited is constantly accompanied by his nephew here or on their regular clandestine trips to Spain.

They left Barcelona the second day of the rioting. reaction in a little less than a pound of explosive, and could set spared. Trusting his friend's word, Clementis made his fateful the Red rulers of their homeland a hundred miles away. Building: Fighting Force. From ore end of this island to the other the bugles shrill early each day: officers and enlisted rr.en drill, fly and repair old weapons and machinery to build a fighting force which can take back the homeland.

The rickshaw and pedicab boys Jn this island bastion of Free China earn more money than the soldiers, but nearly half a million Chinese Nationalists wear the uniform of the army. A major in the Nationalist Army today earns about $7 a month American. A buck private's pay is equal to approximately $1 a month. Soldiers' food rations run about 1000 calories short of a wholly satisfactory 2200 a day. Nevertheless, officers and men live in the stark barracks of Formosa with little complaint.

A number of sons of wealthy Chinese have left lives of, ease to share this rigorous lot. Willing: But Weak. The state of Formosan defense is clear. In manpower and willingness to fight, Formosa is strong. In arms, ammunition and equipment, it is weak.

Unless the United States supplies the necessary weapons, ammunition and equipment, the island cannot withstand a determined Communist attack. I Given such aid, under American supervision and direction, the Nationalists can retake the Chinese mainland, in time. We have got to put a military mission in Formosa to do our job. It must be a big mission. We must range with a top under-water speed of 31 knots, and that it will carry more and larger torpedoes decision to go back.

one up in an alarm clock if radiation could be ignored. was especially grim because of its size and the preponderance of ill-fed, tattered and wretchedly- "Did the underground organize Given Minor Job. and still be roomier than existing He was soon dismissed as for housed people. submersibles. The speed would be about 50 Radiation Shield Problem.

There remains the problem of shielding against radiation. The original estimates were that 50 tons of material would be re- Most Spaniards are hungry all eign minister, which he must have expected. But he was not per cent greater than the fastest submarines now in service. The the time. Their pitiful state contrasts painfully with the corruption and wealth that Franco's odd Nationalist troops training arrested.

He was installed instead in a minor job as economic extra space comes from eliminat here for war came from the China mainland. Many of them fought Continued on Page 6. Column 6. ing the big battery and the fuel the demonstrations? I asked. "Unfortunately, the underground doesn't mean much since the United States and Britain sent ambassadors to Madrid.

The people have lost hope for liberation from Franco," Martinez replied. Low Pay of Workers. "It was simply a case of both workers and employers reaching the point where they could stand no more," the nephew explained. ruling clique wallows in. This is as optimists hope, the last of all international wars? What are the prospects of ending it? So far the losses have been i military and the profits, if any, have been political.

It has been the fourth bloodiest war in United States history. The American casualties are near-ing the 60,000 mark. That is the equivalent of more than three full combat divisions. It is more than the population of Abilene, Tex. It is more than were required to gain American independence, to defeat Mexico, to win the West from the Indians, or to beat Spain and free Cuba.

load that together weigh 700 tons welfare state for the weUare the Reds up and down the mainland once before. of Franco and his men. These were the men who didn't Nation Anti-Red. When rioting broke out in Bar adviser in the state bank. Yet as the Kremlin, acting through such trusted agents as party secretary Rudolf Slansky, tightened its grip on Czechoslovakia, the protection of Gottwald became increasingly worthless.

The Kremlin never is satisfied with half measures, and early this year word came to Clementis that SLIP COVERS Great Savings! Phone Cumberland 1850 defect, even in defeat. All had plenty of opportunity. These men HH labcls' OF sisnncnon tOn BvaitY PUMPOSC represent a sort of elite corps, battle-scarred and battle-tested. "Employers can stay in busi celona the other day. Franco lost no time blaming the Communists.

That is easy enough to do except that Barcelona is one of the most ness only if they buy materials on the black market and skilled On the mainland, under the 2HGEH, 5652 DUMA yoke of the Communist, live mil unlikely spots in Spain in which Continued on Pate 7, Column 2. Continued on Page 7, Column 1. lions of wives, parents, brothers, to pinpoint Communist activity. Fraction of Casualties. Yet these are only a fraction sisters and children of the Na In Barcelona the bitter memories 1 of the casualties suffered by of Communist doubie-aeaiing to subvert the Republicans curing tionalist troops and others on Formosa.

Traditionally, the Chinese loves and reveres his family above all earthly treasures. He suffers Korean civilians, South and North Korean soldiers, and Chinese the civil war remain iresn. ne "volunteer" troops. They total far fupervise the operation and final over simple separation not to people of Barcelona fougnt tne Communists in the streets at the same time they battled Franco. above 500,000.

Staining of the Nationalist Chinese speak of knowledge that loved The war has cost American rator to taxpayers billions of dollars. They ones are enslaved. Intelligence Network. The Nationalist intelligence network, reaching into the mainland. Deco probably will be asked to put up billions of dollars more to rebuild Korea when the sound Ask Your and the fury of battle die away.

brings word that more anti-Red guerrillas have organized; that ground force. Army and Navy. There must be strict supervision, down to the battalion level. In my opinion, all of our efforts should be co-ordinated in a single command, set up as a Supreme Command for Military and Economic Aid in the Far East. This command should be thoroughly and ably staffed.

It should After all this expenditure of with MORRIS ODORLESS WASHABLE Spain is overwhelmingly anti-Communist as it is anti-Franco. When Franco said the riots were precipitated by Communists it was like the Communists saying that reactionaries delayed fulfillment of a production program. Causes of Barcelona Riots. Hunger, frustration induced by the muzzle on freedom and shock-in" corruption induced the people "nan-Pinna to blow off steam. sweat, blood, time and money, millions of other Chinese will where do the rival armies stand? come back to the Nationalists, Just about where they did when given even ghostly hope that the the war began last June 25.

Reds can be overthrown. Much as they need the food, Na Was it all worth while? Politi cally, the answer seems to be yes tionalist Chinese on Formosa deny themselves to supply small bands A wall of force finally has been They have no weapons but des of anti-Red guerrillas on the mainland and on the islands dotting built against the spread of Communism. The prestige of the United Nations has grown. The prestige of Red China and Red Rus peration. "Twelve years is a long time to be hungry." serious, bespecta-riprf Juan Martinez told me as he Formosa Strait.

sia, too has fallen. The power oi the latest demonstra American arms has been magni un Piaiionaust airstrips in secluded valleys of Formosa lines of coolies may be seen loading rice into Chinese Air Force C-47 be mobile, prepared io mane lightning thrusts on the China mainland wherever strategy and timing demand. I know the Chinese would accept supervision and direction by such a command. I have talked to them about it. Period of Training.

A period of training and equipping must intervene before the Nationalists can attack, once full aid is given by the United States. Recently. America started sending moderate supplies of arms and to Formosa. These fied tremendously and world faith tions in a tiny downtown Paris office. Martinez is a Republican, itlv relieious man and an in that power has risen.

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