Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This response by Red China last week to Douglas MacArthur's proposal for a battlefield conference on a truce (TiME, April 2) seemed plain as plain could be. The words were backed up by a continued massive buildup of fresh Chinese Communist forces on the Korean front, presumably for another, greater Red offensive against the U.N. (see below). But in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), London and other non-Communist capitals, a lot of diplomats and pundits sounded as though MacArthur rather than Mao Tse-tung was really the warmonger...
...demand its place in the sun. Last week the airborne's demands were beginning to produce results. The Air Force announced that it is setting up a new command at Greenville, S.C.-the Eighteenth Air Force-whose sole job will be carrying troopers and equipment to the battlefield...
...check, Tokyo explained, was that information vital to the enemy had been seeping out of field headquarters, some of it in Army communiques. But the double check made little sense to correspondents, since 1) it did not apply to Navy or Air Force dispatches and 2) censors on the battlefield presumably know more about what should be killed than Tokyo. The New York Herald Tribune's David McConnell, who was censored by Tokyo in filing a story on the new censorship itself, pointed out that all news from Korea moves on "unsecure" telephone and teletype lines, "which the Communists...
...when "Functionalism!" is the war cry, the circular tray has certainly fallen early on the battlefield, Let us give it a quick burial. Caldwell Titcomb...
Recently the strains of Star Dust rolled out over a valley from a ridge which the G.I.s had taken just twelve hours before. Under the eyes of the tootling musicians, the Communist dead were still being removed from the battlefield...