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The U.N. had a carrot to go with the big stick-a face-saving proposal which might enable the Reds to agree to voluntary repatriation of prisoners. The U.N. proposed to reclassify and move out of its stockades all prisoners unwilling to return to Communist control, so that, at the...
At an air base in central Japan one day last week, a heavy spring rain swept across the runways and drummed on the roof of a large corrugated metal shed. Inside, the leather-jacketed crews for ten U.S. Air Force B-29s crowded into the briefing room. "Gentlemen," said the...
Unwilling Celebrity. Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan leaped into a car and set out for Brooklyn, where a jostling crowd of awed detectives were craning at Willie like bobby-soxers goggling at Frank Sinatra. Triumphantly, after suitable briefing and a fond look at Willie himself, the commissioner called in the...
Mazes & Honeycombs. Even briefing officers are beginning to call it the "twilight war." During the past two months, the battle of Korea has become a war of deeply entrenched positions, of night patrols and occasional daylight raids, of sporadic and usually short artillery duels.
Into a briefing room at the Pentagon last week filed 75 aircraft men to hear what production cuts they may expect under Harry Truman's pruned military budget (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Instead of the $25 billion the Air Force had asked for fiscal 1953, it will now have to...