After the Shock

Roused by the news from Korea, the Administration:

P: Accused Communist China of "aggression, outright and naked," but was prepared later to call it simply "intervention" for United Nations purposes (see INTERNATIONAL).

P: Dispatched grim-faced General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, posthaste for Japan and Korea to see MacArthur.

P: Indicated that general wage and price controls would be put into effect. Treasury Secretary John Snyder said they would be necessary "to avoid damaging inflation."

P: Asked Congress, in a special presidential message, to vote nearly $18 billion more "with the utmost speed" to carry on the fight in Korea and to prepare U.S. forces for possible action anywhere else in the world. The request was designed to raise the armed forces to 2,771,121 men by next June, including 1,264,900 in the Army which had only 593,000 men when the Korean war began. Since then 130,000 reserves have been called to active duty, 100,800 men have been drafted, 50,000 National Guardsmen have been federalized, about 62,800 men have volunteered. Last week the Army issued a call for 50,000 draftees in February.

P: Got itself a price stabilizer and a civilian defense administrator (see below).

P: Invoked the McCarran Act to screen diplomatic staffs and U.N. delegations entering the U.S. Hereafter, diplomatic aides may be questioned and barred by immigration officials if there is evidence of activity endangering national security.

P: Reduced the intelligence requirements for the Navy and Air Force to get more men in.

P: Ordered at long last strict controls on all goods destined for Red China, Hong Kong or Macao. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer also controlled war-potential goods passing through U.S. ports en route to Russia and satellites.

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