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FROM THE DANUBE TO THE YALU (369 pp.)-Mark W. Clark-Harper...
Like any good general, Mark Wayne Clark has always fought to win. Nothing in his character or in his World War II experience could leave him content with anything less. Yet in his new book, From the Danube to the Yalu, he finds it necessary to write, in the very first paragraph: "In carrying out the instructions of my government, I gained the unenviable distinction of being the first United States Army commander in history to sign an armistice without victory...
...time Clark became commander in chief in the Far East in May 1952, the U.S. Government had given up the idea of a military victory in Korea. Mark Clark passionately believed that such faintheartedness had to be banished, that bases and airfields beyond the Yalu should be bombed, and that Chiang Kai-shek's offer of Formosa divisions ought to be accepted. He said as much. Clark believed that the result would not be World War III but a powerful brake on Communist aggression everywhere...
Speaking earlier in the forum, Colonel Lawrence Bunker, former Chief Aide de Campe of General MacArthur, called for a powerful drive to the Yalu River by American troops unless the Communists show signs of agreeing to peace terms in Korea. "We must get tough again," Bunker said. He feels that "Russia will then sell Red China down the river...
...places, absurd confession, I now stand formally convicted by the Korean Democratic People's Republic as a war criminal, being notified of this fact at a solemn ceremony conducted before four Chinese and one Korean officer on September 3, 1953, just prior to my departure from the Yalu River area for Panmunjom and freedom...