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Planner Lemnitzer sees eye-to-eye with outgoing Max Taylor, wants a mobile, hard-hitting and lightweight Army, with more airlift and more manpower. Such wants are exceedingly unpopular in the non-Army reaches of the Pentagon. But whether Lemnitzer gets them, military men are already betting he will be a future chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
...helped fashion the NATO defense system and recommended sending troops into Korea, wrote in the Saturday Evening Post that Berlin may test the West's will more than Korea did. He ridiculed the notion that Khrushchev will "be put off by talk." He rejected a new Berlin airlift as nothing more than "another formula for putting off the evil day" when the Russians either take over or are engaged "where the problem must be faced," on the ground...
After that, there was a daily airlift of captured Africans: 249 were arrested and 136 deported, among them Nyasaland's only African lawyer and only African physician. Hour after hour the government press office, its walls anachronistically decorated with inviting travel posters, ground out fresh communiqués-a road block put up here, a prison stormed there, a European game warden and a forest ranger attacked elsewhere. Against the clubs, stones and pan gas of the Africans, the government had Bren guns, Sten guns, spotter planes-even Vampire jets-plus the services of the King's African...
...landlocked island of Berlin could, under Red siege, be reached reliably only by air, as during the historic "Operation Vittles" airlift of 1948-49. And this time, thanks to lessons learned in the first Berlin blockade, the U.S. has a vastly expanded capacity and know-how in the airlifting business...
...Understanding. The first angry. disappointed reaction in Britain was to acknowledge the failure of Macmillan's mission, but to cheer him for doing his best against a ruffian. British officials suddenly became less ready to lecture others on inflexibility or to regard another Berlin airlift as unduly provocative...