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Fairbank and Schwartz, while while they were in fundamental agreement, emphasized the need for caution in crossing the 38th parallel. A blunt march over the line could fire Russian feeling beyond the kindling point, they suggested. Hence the campaign in what is now Northern Korea should be waged only after such a project has received the blessing...
...Communists enter the war. All of the experts feared that war with Mac would be fruitless for both sides and Fairbank and Hopper feel that Chinese entry into the Korea fight is a possibility. Fairbank says there is still a danger of Chinese intervention if U.N. troops cross the 38th parallel. War with Red China, he said, would be a bleeding conflict in which "we could not beat them or they...
Beyond the 38th...
...University's Far Eastern scholars unanimously favored extension of the U.N. military campaign beyond the 38th parallel. Reischauer put the issue plainly. "The only conceivable military tactic," he said, "is to push on... in fact, if we stopped, few Asiatics would understand...
Radio & TV went into the Korean war as undermanned as any of General MacArthur's divisions. There were only six radio reporters in all of Japan when the first North Korean divisions rolled across the 38th parallel, and one in Korea. On the home front, during the first critical days of the fighting, such quidnunes as Walter Winchell, H. V. Kaltenborn, Drew Pearson and Fulton Lewis Jr. went on vacation. But the networks soon started making up for lost time...