REQUEST BY GENERAL
More Troops, Greater Latitude Jtae. UJQ aznJ TOKYO, April 18. General MacArthur, In a two-hour sMfttent* yesterday with the United Hate* Secretary of the Army (Mr hank Fate) had asked for troopr JM greater latitude in Waging the war |g*n*t CoonnUnists fin Korea, acoordht to informed sources. □•neral MacArthur set forth in derail his tontention that the Western World could net afford to stand by and tee Asia lost to Communism by default •(fiSSWnMI is reported to tkve stood by the position, he had bken itt regard to the Far East in sb previous public statements. This position included General Mae•teraS eontentions that:— fflCofflmuntam could only be d*-i stated by an all-out effort. B) It would be a mistake to neglect Ate* and emphasise the defence of Chinese Communist* should be-opposed by all the power the Am** could-muster. «) Hopes for any settlement of the Korean war were entirely dependent on convincing the Chinese they had been, or would be, decisively . defeated. .
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26393, 11 April 1951, Page 7
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164REQUEST BY GENERAL Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26393, 11 April 1951, Page 7
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