ALONE, IF IT MUST BE

Said Douglas MacArthur:

"If the other nations of the world haven't got enough sense to see where appeasement leads . . . why, then, we had better protect ourselves and go it alone . . . the great loser if such a deplorable break would come would be the nations who split off from the United States. In the subject of Western defense, for instance, those nations who are involved are much more dependent upon our helpfulness than we would lose if they split and became independent . . .

"The possibility [of losing the use of English and French air bases] is a most deplorable situation. But if ... there is the inference that the threat --almost the blackmailing threat--that we had to agree, in spite of what we thought was our own just interests, to every demand that was made upon us in order to continue that unity . . . the unity is valueless . . . Loyalty is a two-way thing ... It has to be practiced by both sides . . .

"I believe sincerely that the fundamental interest of the British ... is involved in this question of the Western Pacific, and I believe most sincerely that they are cutting their own throats in ... such complete support of Red China, and . . . giving of Formosa into the hands of a potential Red enemy . . . We have enough brains and sense and integrity in both of those two great countries to reach a proper, sound, sane decision ... if we cannot come to such a just solution, with our allies, it practically means we are not allies."

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