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(Continued from page 1.) ion in this country for the defence of our own shore*. There •re two American divisions in ' Europe. One is adequately trained for combat. ' '0
The war in Korea started a* a police action. It developed into the fourth greatest war in .our history.
The implications of this action and the military reverses which resulted have brought about national peril in a degree which we have never faced before in our history.
After spending more than fifty billion dollars for defense in the past five years we were able to field in Korea no more than 200,000 soldiers equipped to fight.
It is not my purpose mt this time to discuss the responsibility for this failure beyond the point necessary to correct the conditions which brought about our deplorable predicament.
This is a United Nations war,' but tbo United States is fighting it and taking the consequences. Nearly six months ago the United Nations appealed to its membership of 65 nations to supply troop* and material for its action hi Korea. For weeks the response was negligible. After nearly six months a total of only about 20000 troops havo been sent to fieixtfonce the American forces. Of these 60 percent are British and 26 percent are Turkish. Together all other United Nations troops, ineluding the British and Turks, total only about 6 percent of the American and South Korean forces. Of all the 56 United Nations members only nine, including the United States, furnishes any combat troops in Korea. . Perhaps the greatest of all the tragic implications coming out of the United Nations failure in Korea is that it is another successful step in the Russian effort to destroy freedom and democracy in la series of side-line wars which expose neither Russian soldiers nor Russian arms. If we continue to become involved in every war touched rdf and directed by Rua— eia in remote parts of the globe we shall divide our strength, dissipate our military and economic^ power, and in time ourselves become anj easy prey, for. Russian aggression. Russia controls the war making timetable.
As I have stated frequently in the past, it baa been my judgment for a long time that Russia hase been wagring a war of economic and military attrition against the United States. She seeks first to destroy our 6cbn-. omy which is the foundation for our mass production capacity to turn out more military armament and material than the rest of the world combined once we set our
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