Allen, Maj. Gen. Frank A., Jr., United States Army, the Pentagon, Kreider, Cpl. Lloyd D., 307th Airborne Medical Battalion, 82d Air- McNichols, 1st Lt. Henry J., Jr., Company I, Infantry School De- Martin, Pfc. John E., 359th Engineer Aviation Supply Port Company, Milano, William L., Philadelphia, Pa... Ridgway, Gen. Matthew B., Chief of Staff, United States Army, The Smith, Lt. James B., United States Army, Fort Benning, Ga... Weinel, Sgt. Carey H., 504th Military Police Company, Fort Eustis, Wolfe, Col. Claudius O., United States Army... Part 1-3 KOREAN WAR ATROCITIES WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1953 UNITED STATES SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE ON The Subcommittee on Korean War Atrocities met at 10:30 a. m., pursuant to call, in the caucus room, Senate Office Building, Senator Charles E. Potter, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Present: Senator Charles E. Potter, Republican, Michigan; and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Republican, Wisconsin. Also present: Senator Henry C. Dworshak, Republican, Idaho; Senator Barry Goldwater, Republican, Arizona; and Robert L. Jones, research assistant to Senator Potter. Also present, the following staff members of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Francis P. Carr, executive director; Donald F. O'Donnell, assistant counsel; Ruth Young Watt, chief clerk. Senator POTTER. The subcommittee will come to order. The subcommittee is appointed by the chairman, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. With me I have Don O'Donnell, who is a special counsel who has been handling the work for the atrocities investigation. On his left is Frank Carr, executive director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. On my right is Robert Jones, of my office, who has been working with the hearings. Within the past few weeks we have heard much about vicious war atrocities committed by Communists against allied troops in Korea. Our Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge presented the background and nature of some of these atrocities to the United Nations. Yesterday the Soviet spokesman, Andrei Vishinsky, attempted to repudiate these charges, saying that American claims represented nothing else but deliberate lies and propaganda. I may say that I was extremely pleased that Ambassador Lodge yesterday called for the establishment of a United Nations Commission to investigate war atrocities in Korea. If, as Vishinsky claims, these atrocities were a "cowardly" maneuver to cover the worst crimes perpetrated between American military circles-then we shall call his bluff. Let the chips fall where they may. Let's hear what our boys who suffered under Communist cruelties have to say-then, let the U. N. Commission go behind the Iron Curtain and decide the facts for themselves. Let's see who is guilty. |