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...Korea, the campaign would be even longer. If they sent large forces, a full-scale war between China and the U.N. army might result. If the estimated 300,000 Chinese troops now in Manchuria crossed the Yalu into Korea, outnumbered U.N. forces might well be driven back below the 38th parallel...
Next day a U.S. I Corps spokesman admitted that the Reds had captured 13 U.S. tanks, announced that 500 cavalrymen must be considered dead or captured. Said one newsman conservatively: "It is probably the most costly battle U.S. forces have fought north of the 38th parallel." A bitter cavalry officer gave a more exact description: "It was a massacre like the one which hit Custer...
Three days after the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel last June, the Harvard University Press scooped the nation's publishers with the only current book on Korea, George McCune's "Korea Today." Thomas J. Wilson, director of the university Press, admits it was coincidence. But in recent years the Press has encouraged books on world trouble-spots...
...Reds' withdrawal beyond the 38th parallel...
...South Korean troops refused to cross the 38th parallel...