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...theater, General MacArthur was decisive in all his answers. But Connecticut's Democrat Brien McMahon reminded him that he had said the problem was global in nature. "If we go into all-out war," said McMahon, "I want to find out how you propose in your own mind to defend the American nation against that war?" Said MacArthur: "That doesn't happen to be my responsibility, Senator. My responsibilities were in the Pacific." Global solutions were the J.C.S.'s business, he declared. Did he know the number of atomic bombs the U.S. had? That Russia...
Gradually, with the scientific methods which have made mass destruction reach appalling proportions, war has ceased to be a sort of the roll-of-the-dice to determine . . . which should be the winner and dictate the terms. It has become an all-out effort. It has involved every man, child and woman in the whole world ... It is inherently a failure now. The last two wars have shown it. The victor had to carry the defeated on his back ... If you have another world war you are going to get such destruction and destructiveness [that]-I think...
...Furthermore . . . there is nothing that would give the Kremlin greater satisfaction than to see our resources committed to an all-out struggle in Asia, leaving Europe exposed to Soviet armies. [And] if the United States were to widen the conflict, we might well have to go it alone. The path of collective security is our only sure defense against the dangers which threaten us. It is the path to peace ... in the world. We are determined to do our utmost to limit the war in Korea...
...this unhappy prospect does not seem to me to lead to the conclusion that an all-out what with China, now would serve out interests. On the contrary, set might provide the best opportunity for Russia to take Western Europe and put us in a forked stick...
Although agreeing that China may continue to have an aggressive totalitarian government, Fairbank concludes "this unhappy prospect does not lead to the conclusion that all-out war with China now would serve our interests...