European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Wanted to Use 30 to 50 in Korean Interviews Made 10 Years Ago Reveal MacArthur Believed British Gave His Plans to Peking NEW YORK of the Army Douglas MacArthur be that Britain betrayed him in the Korean War by giving informa tion on his plans to the Chinese He said he could have won the war in 10 days by using 30 to 50 atomic bombs against Red MacArthur also charged that fools and in Washington abetted the British in revealing his secrets to the The generals views were ob 10 years ago in separate interviews by cor respondent Jim Lucas and Hearst correspondent Bob Their stories were kept secret while MacArthur was but have now been copyrighted and newspapers fol lowed the Lucas report with an other story linking three British defectors to Russia Donald Mac stories on Page Guy Francis Burgess Harold Philby with The three men in British Foreign Office assignments before to Assailed Eisenhower 1ucas said that besides accusing Britain of MacArthur bitterly assailed Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisen Gens George Maxwell Taylor and Matthew and that former Secretary of State Dean Acheson curbed Trumans instincts for an allout war for victory in Considine detailed proposed battle I could have won the war in Korea in a maximum of 10 with considerably fewer casualties than were suffered during the so called truce and it would have altered the course of his Considine thur as The air power would first have been taken I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs on his air bases and other depots strung across the neck of Manchuria from just across the Yalu river from Antung to the neighborhood of More Than Enough Between 30 and 50 atomic bombs would have more than done the Dropped under cover of they would have de the air force on the wiped out his main tenance and his MacArthur said he then would have used Nationalist Chi nese troops and two Marine divisions in two amphibious forces striking opposite ends of the Yalu across the top of North They join in two he form a wall of man quoted MacAr power and firepower across the northern bottling the Com munist troops The enemy commander would have been starved out within 10 I suggest now he would have sued for peace immediately after learning his air had been taken out and we had spread across his supply the general Fie said he planned to spread a belt of radioactive cobalt from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea so that for at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the The enemy could not have marched across that radiated MacArthur said that Russia would not have come to the aid of the Chinese Russia could not have engaged She would not have fought for She is already unhappy and uncertain over the colossus she has The truce we en tered stupendous blun der of refusing to win when we could have given China the breathing time she who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Korean kept the memo in his files un til feeling not to report any of it as long as Mac Arthur was alive because of the seriousness of the charges and the frankness of the The general pulled no punches on Page It EUROPEAN EDITION IF 21855 ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE Unofficial publication of the Forces North Africa and the Middle East Volume Number 356 0 April 1964 5 cents daily 10 cents Sunday German Shell Kills 9 Observers Germany stray mortar shell Tipped into a group of military observers on a NATO artillery range killing nine and seriously wound ing seven The dead included seven Ger plus a Dutch and an Indo the Bonn Defense Ministry The 81mm shell exploded on the truck from which they were watching target practice by a Ger man antitank unit at the burg Heath firing range of Bergen Hoehne near The accident occurred shortly aft er a group of military attaches from many nations had left the range to return by air to It was the worst accident to hit the German army since 15 sol diers died in a river crossing ex almost seven years Five men were immediately killed in the Four others succumbed to their injuries short ly The injured were taken to near by where doctors said the condition of two German cers was According to unofficial one Canadian and one South Ko rean officer were among these The names of the vic tims were not All were students in a German officers training Military sources said the non Germans had been attending guest MacArthur Interviews Fan Storm on Both Sides of Atlantic WASHINGTON AP Publica tion of two interviews General of thu Army Douglas MacArthur gave 10 years quoting him as accusing the British of betrayal in hot responses on both sides of the Atlantic Thurs da and spotlighted anew an old Soviet spy Farl who was Britains prime minister at the time of the Korean denounced as com plete nonsense and perfectly ridic the accusations of British treachery attributed to MacArthur by Jim Lucas of A high State Department source said in Washington that Secretary Dean Rusk considers charges that the British government betrayed Korean War plans to the Chinese Reds to be utter Maj Gen Courtney Whitney close friend state pure anj called the about the British Whitney also hurled the charge fictional nonsense at the report written by Lucas of his interview with MacArthur in January This Was not a denial that there had been an Whitney wa present at In comment on Earl editor of the Scripps Howard Newspaper said in Washington We stand by our published account of the interview and the integrity of our Walker of the said My only answer to the Whitney statement is that anybody who knows Jim Lucas knows he does hot write The other old interview with but now pub on Page 2 West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Defense Minister Kai Uwe von Hassel immediately cabled condolences to the families of the the Defense Min Two state attorneys who hap to be taking part in the training exercise immediately opened an They were later joined by criminal police and Bundeswehr Von Hassel will fly to the train ing area Friday for a personal in of the accident of Stateside Static admitted he took too literally the old If the shoe put it He pleaded guilty to slipping on a new pair of shoes at a depart ment store and walking out with out Khrushchev Says China Plays With Fate of Millions BUDAPEST AP Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev Thursday accused the Communist Chinese of ir responsibly playing with the destiny of millions of and predicted that their spasmodic efforts to the Communist movement will end in shameful In his strongest counterattack on the Peking regime since the Soviets broke their silence in the ideological struggle with the chev said Under the coverup of Marxism the Chinese leaders are trying to push the Communist movement into a swamp of Great Chinese Their adventurous policies weaken the fight imperial But their spasmodic efforts to subordinate the Communist move ment will end in shameful Khrushchev told a an friendship rally in his last speech concluding his 10day visit to The imperialists can rub their hands in the Soviet premier said in an address to some people in Budapests Sports The Chinese leaders have left the path of the revolutionary class and base their policies on such ele ments as the color of race and They maliciously split the Com munist movement and move to ward a rift from which only the on Page lt Departing Gen Baker Given Distinguished Service Medal PARTING Gen Paul Freeman pins the Distinguished Service Medal on his departing chief of Maj Gen William Baker Photo By HERB Staff Writer HEIDELBERG Gen William Baker chief of staff who leaves for a Pentagon assignment next was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in farewell cere monies at Campbell Barracks here Maj Gen Francis who has been deputy chief of staff for opera will take over Bakers post on Page 2 Nation Braces For Crippling Rail Strike CHICAGO UPI The nation braced Thursday for a rail strike that could paralyze clog highways with commuters and put a serious dent in the Housewives would feel the pinch in family and of perishable food would suffer ir reparable The threatened strike was set for local time Top railroad and union leaders met with Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz in an attempt to reach a set before the strike But the negotiations broke off un and Wirtz reported no The strike of the Illinois Central which precipitat ed the latest crisis in a longsim mering dispute over work already posed tremendous A nationwide walkout would pose Service Cut Off Service to more than com in the Midwest and South was cut off by the Illinois Central The sudden strike sent thousands of commuters changing to car pools and taxicabs in Freight shipments were tied throughout the lines operation in 14 states from the Great Lakes the Gulf A strike of even a few days duration would result in layoffs and The which a half million would be seriously The railroad companies and aluminum producers also would hard More than commuters in the Chicago area alone would have to find other means of getting to The same story would be repeat ed in major cities from New to Los Weather Partly mild Friday and Satur high low Temperatures recorded Thursday 44 44 pm am pm am Adana pc 59 55 Madrid pc 61 Athens pc 66 59 Munich pc 54 cl 54 37 Paris pc 63 39 Berlin cl 52 37 pc 52 4fr pc 63 41 69 London pc 55 41 Wheelus pc 66 64 2nd Weather Wing
