ALLIES URGED TO USE GERMANS, JAPS TO COMBAT REDS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23314, 25 July 1950, Page 5

ALLIES URGED TO USE GERMANS, JAPS TO COMBAT REDS

(10 a.m!) NEW YORK. July 24. Japan and Germany are the only principal sources from which the Allies can get the extra manpower they need to help to contain Russian-inspired Communist aggression, says Hanson Baldwin, military correspondent of the New York Times. The Western Powers should conclude a separate peace treaty with Japan immediately and give the Japanese the responsibility of defending their own islands, with the United States retaining the right to maintain bases there, he says. The Allies should form a West German police force or army, but keep it under Allied control.

He proposes the organisation of foreign legions of Japanese and Germans and other foreigners underAmerican or Allied command. These legions should be offered to the United Nations to oppose aggression by Soviet satellite forces.

There is a threat of a Soviet-inspired war in a number of places, principally Formosa, Persia, and Yugoslavia, he adds. The Allies are confronted with the problem of what to do about aggression" in any of these places. How far should Allied aid go? American strength is needed in Western Europe perhaps more than anywhere else in the world. The United States must not become too committed in Korea, which .is a strategic side show, lest it does not have enough strength for the strategic main show. The United States must retain the ability to concentrate strong forces where they are most needed. American political commitments must be limited to the ability of American military strength to back them up. The United States should frankly inform friendly Governments just what help they can expect in case of a Sovietinspired attack.