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...build-up for the move, the Communists in December arrested Cracow's administrator, Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak, and three weeks ago, in the same city, a military court sentenced one priest and two laymen to death after a trumped-up trial. The charge: spying...
Cecil Hinshaw, noted pacifist, pointed out that the way to peace is not through a military build-up, but instead, through an extended "Point Four" program designed to get rid of the conditions which foster communism. Daniel H. Fenn, Jr. '44, director of the United Council on World Affairs and ex-assistant Freshman dean at Harvard, supported the shortrange policy of containment of Russia, but said that we must work for a stronger long-range plan...
...Communists were pouring masses of men and supplies into a new build-up for a second strike at the U.N. forces. Unless the Chinese decide to throw in their air power, their strategy is almost certain to be the same as before-trying to swamp the U.N. forces by weight of numbers. Last week the U.S. Eighth Army was confident it could again stand up to the Reds' massed attacks, would again exact heavy casualties for expendable ground...
...June, 1950. This has been accomplished less than nine months after the Communist aggression against the Republic of Korea." Then, with pride, he added: "For your information, the strength we have already attained . . . was not attained in World War II until more than twenty-one months after our build-up started...
...build-up was impressive: Rico Lebrun, who at 51 is among the nation's most respected artists, devoted five years to planning and painting a giant triptych entitled Crucifixion; it was well received by his Los Angeles neighbors, and last week Manhattan's choosy Museum of Modern Art had the picture on show. The work itself turned out to be something of a shocker...