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...professor called it "the blackest day in the history of the college," and many of his colleagues agreed with him. The College of William and Mary, not yet recovered from its athletic scandal and the resignation of President John Edwin Pomfret (TIME, Sept. 24), was once again in a state of shock. The center of the storm this time: the man who had been chosen as President Pomfret's successor...
...Reds last week were making frantic effort to whip up enthusiasm for the Korean "volunteer" action. They were trying hard to convince the Chinese people that the U.S. is their enemy. Mass meetings, parades, plays, street-corner posters and soap-box orators painted the U.S. in the blackest patterns. A Shanghai revue, playing to packed houses, depicted the brutal forces of U.S. imperialism descending on unarmed Korea and closed with a glimpse of John Foster Dulles plotting Japanese rearmament with Premier Yoshida. At railway stations there was rally after rally hailing soldiers on their way to fight the imperialists...
...regime allows neither freedom of expression nor freedom of silence. What he meant was plain last week at a "self-accusation" meeting of students and teachers of Peking's famed Yenching University (TIME, Feb. 26). Professor after professor and pupil after pupil stood up to confess the blackest sin in Communism's book: pro-Americanism. Among the breast-beaters...
Just when the situation looked the blackest on his right flank, Michaelis got two badly needed battalions of reinforcements. Then, at nightfall, a minor miracle roared out of the northwest sky. A flight of seven B-26s, fully loaded with bombs, came winging in. They had been unable to find their primary target, asked a spotter plane over the embattled 27th Regiment if he had any job for them. He certainly did. The spotter guided the B-26s-with only enough gas in their tanks to stay in the air 20 minutes-to General Kim's 8th Regiment, just...
Fuchs's arrest hit Washington between the eyes. A member of the Atomic Energy Commission said: "We realized that this was one of the blackest days in the history ... of the security of this country. We are treating this as the biggest problem we ever had." In consternation, President Truman's Cabinet met to discuss the case. One of those who attended the session said: "You can't overemphasize the seriousness of this development...