Salt Lake Tribune July 29th 1953 DAVID LAWRENCE Korea Appeasement Sets Stage for Next Big War WASHINGTON For whom do the bells toll? They are ringing out in several cities on our side as a truce is signed in Korea. They are ringing out also in Communist lands where their cry is: We won. We won! Do the bells toll for Syngman Rhee? Mr. Lawrence His ill fated country may soon be handed over to the Communists, probably by those same tactics of an enforced coalition of Communists and non Communists which betrayed Nationalist China even as it ruined freedom in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the other states where millions of people now are enslaved. MacArthurs Views Do the bells toll for General MacArthur? He believed, in accordance with tradition, that when Americans are taken from their homes to die they should be permitted to fight the enemy with maximum military force. He didnt think they should be restrained by hamstringing orders imposed by governments which furnished no sizable proportion of the troops. So the idea of military victory for the West died with the dismissal of MacArthur. The third largest international war in our history is not ending in military victory, because two years ago the greatest soldier of modern times was summarily stripped of his command to the delight of the enemy and the applause of some of our faithless allies. Up and Then Down Do the bells toll for the United Nations? The leaders of this organization, created to do what the League of Nations failed to do to establish a firm alliance of peace loving nations dedicated to the principle of collective security marched up the hill and then down again. The U. N. assembly adopted on Oct. 7, 1950, a resolution calling on its armies to establish conditions of stability throughout Korea. Then, when the government of Red China intervened and our forces were prevented by our own orders from attacking the air bases beyond the Yalu on Chinese territory, the same United Nations drew back and within six months after a public plea for a truce at the 38th parallel uttered first by Secretary of State Acheson in May, 1951 Malik of Russia accepted in June, 1951, our overtures for peace, and the armistice talks began. Do the bells toll for the 25,000 dead Americans and for the 115,000 casualties who have lived to see their sacrifices ignored? Will Provide Answer The political conference soon to be dragged out for months and months and then abandoned in another stalemate will finally answer this question. But the record to date indicates that what could not be accomplished by military force will never be consummated by conversation at the conference table when the only language the Communists have ever understood military force is now to be discarded for the language of supplication. The U. N. will beg for peace terms that will never be granted. The U. N. started out on the 38th parallel to repel aggression but the armies of the U. N. and the Communists are in approximately the same position today except that the Communists now have 1,000,000 Chinese volunteers occupying the area north of the 38th parallel as a threat to South Korea. History Says No Do the bells toll for a joyous peace one that will prevent the big world war everybody has dreaded? History tells us it will not that every appeasement has been followed by war. The word truce is well chosen. It is a truce. For the big fight is to come next after a pause during which time our allies will insist on exporting munitions, raw materials, machinery and other strategic articles. This will help build the war machine of the enemy for the war some day to be launched against the free world.