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a at The preventive war boys lv ie . Secretary of War Patterson and Secretary of Navy . Forrestal have piously denied everything. To the charge by Henr Wallace that a powerful military clique advocate reventive war,” an atomic ‘ attack now on the Soviét Union, yn, they ‘reply with public surprise that they never heard of such a thing. Tut, tut, gentlemen, you ought to read the news- papers. High military and naval officials may not have said. oviet Union. But they have come pretty close to it. ®Consider the case of Bulletin No. 11 issued b army headquarters in Korea under direct orders of Lieutenant General Hodge. This order instructs officers in Korea to read Wil- peetre fon Whe! @Consider the case of General Mark Clerkewho. said earlier this week that the United States ought to use Austria as “a bridgehead in Eastern Europe.” You will excuse us, Secretaries Patterson and: For-. | restal, but the only point we can see in a “bridgehead : in Eastern Europe” is for war against the Soviet Union. ; re ate oe Ne ee ee oo Ft in so many words that they favor war with the | , liam C. Bullitt’s Readers Digest article which quite. ‘ clique which does advocate a “preventive war” against openly calls for atomic war on the Soviet Union. ©Consider the case of that San Francisco press ‘ bers. Admiral Leahy, sits at the right hand of the . conference a few. weeks ago by Admiral William H. P. Blandy who conducted the Bikini atom bomb test. ’ . According to newspaper reports, Blandy said that he favored use of theVatom_ bomb as, an_ “‘offensive- defensive”? weapon. . The doctrine of an “offensive-defensive” with he atom bomb certainly sounds to us like advocacy of 2 preventative war. eee a Set <- 2 . - * # Ye . id o®™ Is ; gy Nop RWOG. Riso re) Neat 87 OCT 8 I946 ® Consider the case of Admiral William H. Stand-' ley who said that Wallace was “guilty of disloyalty” ' to the United States because he dared to advocate a { course of friendship with the Soviet Union. - We could go on at some length, and all we. know | is what we get on ours news tickers and read i in the , _ Rewspapers. 1 “| We presume that Wallace knows much better. thar what army and navy brass hats say in private, “Th will be difficult for intelligent Americans to take : soft denials by Secretaries Patterson and Forresta as either honest or credible. i There is in Washington today a powerful = the Soviet Union. One of its most influential mem- President as his chief of staff. ‘ In fact, the removal of Henry Wallace as Sécre- tary of Commerce signalizes the elevation to a domi- nant position of the war-now crowd: in the War and Navy departments. Tepe Co~trSom®) This is a clipping from page é of the Peoples World for _ F-L1 -46 Clipped at the Seat of Government