D. D. McCALLUM, lNC.

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MacArthur Aide Tells Lumber Meeting Of Conspiracy by Acheson

Houston, Texas-A soldier who served on the stafi of General MacArthur from the time of the surrender of Japair to the "diSmissal" recited to the members of the Houston Retail Lumber Dealers Association some of the intimate details of the treachery which turned China over to Russia and communism, and brought about the Korean war.

The man was Major J. Griffin Chapman of Houston. The crowd which filled to o'i'erflowing the Oriental room at \Areldon's on South Main Street, listened with intense interest as Major Chapman revealed specific data from the records detailing the step-by-step program conducted under the orders of the State Department to build up communist power in the Far East and to get rid of General MacArthur.

I\'Iajor Chapman called it "Secretary Acheson's u'ar in Korea." He expressed the view that since Acheson told the communists we would be satisfied'with a settlement on the basis of the 38th parallel, we will either accept that or we must continue the war. But the entire truce program of the communists in Korea is a trap in which we are caught.

But before being assigned to Japan as political and social' advisor to General MacArthur, Major Chapman had entered 'ihe service as a chaplain and served in the European campaign with General George Patton. He was there during the Battle of the Bulge, and he was there when Patton's army reached the Czech border. "We sat there on the Czech border for trvo lveeks and waited, so that the Russians could come in and take over. The decision to turn our victory, which cost thousands of American lives, over to the Russians was not made by the generals, it was made bv President Roosevelt," said the speaker.

Major Chapman declared that the Chiefs of Staff sent a message to President Roosevelt at Yalta pleading with him not to make a deal with Russia as payment for the iatter's promise to aid us against its then ally, Japan. They advised Roosevelt that Russian participation on our side was not needed, that Japan was ready to give up. In fact it r,vas then just a few days before the surrender. The message went to Harry Hopkins who read it and stuck it in his pocket, and Roosevelt never saw it.

The speaker paid especial tribute to the executive genius of General MacArthur in reconstructing the entire Japanese political philosophy and building Japan into a democratic nation within the short period of five years. "I v'as asked how long I thought it would take to make Japan a democratic country, and I said it would take two generations," he said. "If someone had told me that the job could be done in five years, I would have thought he was insane. lSut General MacArthur did it-and now Japan is our only ally."

The firing of General MacArthur did not come suddenly. It had been brewing for five years, engineered by the State Department, in which there were communists and fellow travelers and others who could be depended upon to follow the communist line. He referred to the Congressional investigation during which it was stated that General MacArthur had failed to report developments to Washington. He declared that n{acArthur sent reports to Washington every day. Finally, he pointed out that Korea is not the real objective of Rrrssia. The real objective is Japan

And concluding, he said he is telling his storv because "it is high time somebody in this country spoke out and spoke plainly."

Washington Confusion

(From a bulletin of H. R. Northup, Executive Vice President of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association)

Last week we referred to the new type of confusion in Washington. Then we sat down and took a look at the National's bulletins to the industry over the past several months reporting rules and regulations coming from OPS, NPA, CMP, Wage Stabilization and so on, and we thought to ourselves maybe some of this new type confusion and old t54pe confusion exists in the industry in respect to these rules and regulations.

Telephone conversations with leaders in the industry verified this confusion, but also encourage us to believe that while the industry is trying to understand the rules and regulations, trying to live up to them, at least in their major aspects, they are not concerning themselves and don't have time to concern themselves with the detail. If Washingtop can't make it clear how can the individual citizen understand them?

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