Bridges a moment ago, I am supporting the idea of individuals filing their own individual views. Chairman RUSSELL. Gentleman, I wish to say just one word. This is probably the last formal meeting that we will have in a very historic hearing. I do wish again-and this is not just being repetitious to express to the members of this committee my appreciation and my admiration for the objective manner in which we have pursued these hearings. It is nothing short of amazing that when men's emotions have been as deeply stirred as they were by these events, that the hearings should have been so free from bitterness and personalities as these have been. I hope that the long hours that we have spent here will redound to the benefit of the American people, and in preserving the institutions of government that we all love. Senator HUNT. Mr. Chairman, I should like to ask this joint committee to give favorable consideration to a statement that we all are grateful to the chairman for the able and fair and very splendid, very splendid, manner in which he has conducted these hearings from the very outset, until he made this last general statement. Chairman RUSSELL. I appreciate that. Senator SMITH. I would like to second that. Chairman RUSSELL. I did not make my statement to try to invoke any compliments, but I did it because I feel in my heart that every member of these two committees has measured up to the very best traditions of the Senate. Chairman CONNALLY. I was going to suggest that I put the motion. All in favor say "aye." (There was a unanimous expression of "ayes.") Chairman CONNALLY. Opposed, "no." (No response.) Chairman RUSSELL. I thank you, gentlemen, and the committee is now adjourned. (Whereupon, at 12: 15 the committee adjourned.) APPENDIX Title of document Person requesting or sub- Page Excerpt from United Nations General Official release by the U. S. S. R. Infor- Senator Kefauver....3171 Senator Kefauver.. 3171 Senator Smith_ 3179 Senator Smith_. 3183 Senator Smith_. 3185 Senator Sparkman__ 3186 Excerpt from the speech of Hon. Joseph Senator McMahon____3176 Senator Knowland....3187 Senator Knowland___3187 Senator Brewster.....3190 Articles from two London newspapers, Casualty figures Senator Knowland____3193 General Collins Senator Knowland_ 3196 3197 Communiqué No. 15, United Nations Speech by Senator Brewster on floor of Three letters which appeared in the Con- Senator Sparkman_ 3204 Senator Brewster___ 3210 Senator Brewster.. 3217 Senator McMahon....3228 Senator Sparkman. 3230 Senator Kefauver. 3231 Senator Knowland_ 3232 Referred to on hearing page No. Letter designation Title of document Person requesting or submitting document Page Resolutions by Senator Cain offered in the Senate on April 17, 1951, and accompanying statements. One resolution provides for declaration of existence of a state of war between the North Korean regime, the Chinese Communist regime, and the Government of the United States, and second resolution provides for the orderly withdrawal of Armed Forces of the United States from Korea. Summary of remarks made by Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer before joint meeting of State Council and, all Ministers of the National Government August 22, 1947. Statement of Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson before the Armed Services Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, April 26, 1950. Statement of Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson before the Armed Services Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee in connection with the appropriation estimates for the fiscal year 1951. Statement of Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson before the Armed Services Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, July 25, 1950. Comments by Gen. Patrick J. Hurley about 1,000 pages of white paper, August 7, 1949. Letter addressed to Senator Knowland dated June 9, 1951, from Henry A. Wallace. Letter from Acting Secretary Robert A. Lovett, Department of Defense, dated May 17, 1951, to Chairman Richard B. Russell of the Senate Armed Services Committee, with enclosures, supplementing testimony given by General Marshall on the subject of United States casualties in Korea. Referred to on hearing page No. Letter designation Title of document Person requesting or submitting document Page Letter from Sidney Aberman, secretary of the War Resistors League of New York, dated May 2, 1951, addressed to Chairman Russell. Letter from Vice Admiral Oscar C. Badger, USN, Commander Eastern Sea Frontier, 90 Church St., New York, dated June 27, 1951, to Chairman Russell, supplementing testimony with reference to bombing of bases in Manchuria and the blockade by United Nations rather than the United States Naval Forces. Japanese Imports and Exports from and to Communist China and Hong Kong, January 1950 to February 1951. Aircraft, in Philippines December 7, 1941. Reply from Department of the Air Force, dated June 13, 1951, to request for information concerning estimates of the Chiefs of Staff of the Air Force regarding the minimum number of Air groups necessary to protect this country. Cumulative list of information requested of the Department of State or Secretary Acheson during the hearings and not previously supplied. (See also appendix vv.) (a) Letter from H. Alexander Smith to the Secretary of State, dated November 4, 1949. (b) Letter from H. Alexander Smith to the Secretary of State, dated December 27, 1949. (c) Report of visit to the Far East, September and October 1949, by Senator H. Alexander Smith, member, Committee on Foreign Relations. (d) Statement by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, dated May 18, 1951, entitled "For a Bipartisan Policy in the Far East.' Statement of W. Averell Harriman, Special Assistant to the President, regarding our wartime relations with the Soviet Union, particularly as they concern the agreements reached at Yalta. Letter dated June 20, 1951, and statement from Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault (retired) United States Army, supplementing testimony and giving his on-the-spot views and comments on the proposals which have been put forward for bringing to a conclusion the war in Korea. |