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"Results Unknown." Every morning at 8 o'clock, at every U.S. command post in Korea, commanders gather with their staffs for their daily briefing on the infantry war. Before a lighted map of the corps, divisional or regimental sector in question, a G-2 officer reduces the cold, the...
They awoke to a clear, bitter-cold Wednesday. Ike put on his old battle jacket-with no rank insigne, but still sporting the flaming-sword shoulder patch of SHAPE -and wool Army trousers, then added a fur-lined Army field parka and a pile hat. First, he flew off in...
In Korea, President-elect Dwight Eisenhower is likely to demand the kind of precise, efficient briefing which General Eisenhower is accustomed to. In any current estimate of the situation, the field commanders are likely to present three possible courses of action:
Ike was tight-lipped and grim as Secret Service men led him back through the crowded executive lobby to his car. On his way back to the airport he detoured to the Pentagon for a handshake around and a fast military briefing inside the guarded precincts of the Joint Chiefs...
Meanwhile, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. settled down in his old Senate office in shirtsleeves and white galluses and got to work briefing himself on military and diplomatic matters. While he worked, his aides started to pack his belongings (Lodge as a lame-duck Senator will have to move out in...