MACARTHUR GAMBLED THAT CHINESE WOULD NOT FIGHT IN KOREA
TOKIO, Dec. 1 (Rec. 12.50 am).— Major-General Charles Willoughby, General MacArthur’s intelligence chief, said today that he was not prepared to accept the present situation in Korea as “desperate and requiring desperate action.” At a press conference he had been asked to comment on President Truman’s announcement, that the use of the atom bomb in Korea is under active consideration.
Major-General Willoughby said his intelligence organisation knew that 30 divisions of Chinese Communists were south, or just north of the Yahi River when General MacArthur launched his abortive offensive.
Present estimates of the Chinese forces were more than 200,000. with •an “inexhaustible reservoir of men behind them in Manchuria.”
Major-General Willoughby said the United Nations command attacked to test Peking’s intentions arid “gambled, along with the rest of the world,” that, th? Chinese divisions would stay on their side of the river.—Reuter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 December 1950, Page 5
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