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...listing U.N. members' contributions to the forces in Korea in your Jan. 8 issue, you give the number of British troops as 6,000...There are now about 12,000 British ground troops in Korea (the 27th and 29th Brigades). The first brigade has been in Korea since the end of August and the second since the beginning of November...In addition, 10,000 men of the Royal Navy...have been in the Korean theater since the beginning...Thus, with the small force of Royal Marine Commandos and two squadrons of R.A.F. Flying Boats, the total British manpower committed...
...once wrote you about Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis reading a copy of TIME while he waited for the Air Force to blast Red concentrations then attacking his heroic 27th Regiment (TIME, Oct. 16). Two weeks ago I told you about the many letters we get from TIME-reading G.I.s and officers in combat. But John Warren Smith insists that there is "no need to go to distant lands to find people reading TIME under hardships." A former Columbia University graduate student, 22-year-old Private Smith sent me the following story to prove his point...
Your editorial on "The Miracle" (Saturday, January 27th) was very interesting, but I was a little confused by your reasoning. You stated that no group "has the right to use their personal judgments as a standard for what the public should or should not see. Such biased 'purification' of the public media in the guise of public protection has been identified with every dictatorship." The state censors are a group; a state censor, I assume, is as biased as anyone else; the state censors use their personal judgments as a standard for what the public should or should...
...something all American people should know" . . . "Keep up the good work, TIME". . . "Expressed my views perfectly". . . "If I were a reporter or writer, that is what I would have written". . . "I praise your staff on the excellent coverage of the Korean war." Corporal "Tex" Herzog of the heroic 27th Regiment called TIME "the best magazine in the world," but wanted us to change the name to the Weekly World Magazine...
Maps in the Dining Room. The G.I. belonged to Colonel John ("Mike") Michaelis' proud 27th Infantry Regiment, which had put the fear of the U.S. Army into many a North Korean soldier. Now it was screening the U.N. retreat in this section of the city. Michaelis had set up his command post in the dining room. He stood before his tactical maps with his division commander, Major General John Church, commanding officer of the U.S. 24th Division. There had been some concern that the Chinese-who had started to move into the city from the north and northeast that...