Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There had been a council of war at Rideau Hall over Commonwealth defenses. Most urgent subject: the 3½-year "state of emergency" in Malaya, where Communist terrorists 1) had taken more than 3,000 lives; 2) were costing $150,000 a day to combat; 3) threatened tin and rubber production, Britain's best dollar earners. A few months before, Communists had ambushed and killed High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney, the topflight colonial administrator who had been sent out to put order into Malaya's civil service. Said the London Daily Telegraph: "The trouble [has been] not only...
...Dunkirk, he was operational commander of "Mac Force," the improvised formation covering the British right flank, and was mentioned in dispatches. Back in England he shot up to be the youngest lieutenant general in the British army. Believing he had risen too quickly, he asked for and got a combat command...
...grasping has proved nettlesome. With 26 divisions* and 3,500 aircraft combat-ready in Western Europe, NATO superficially seems to have hit its 1952 target. Compared with last year's NATO force of 18 active divisions, this is an improvement; compared with the 100 divisions and 7,000 aircraft that Russia has available, it remains dangerously inadequate. More important, the roll call of Allied "reserves" is woefully short. Some 20 reserve divisions exist in embryo, but few would be ready for action within the 30-day mobilization period specified by NATO. Without more reserves, says NATO Supreme Commander General...
...enemy who avoided meeting them face to face or matching them gun for gun. In last year's Vinhyen and Dongtrieu battles, the late great Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny had shown briefly what could be done if the Viet Minh Communists could be tricked out into open combat. Now, at the encircled air strip of Nasan, 117 miles west of Hanoi, there was a chance that Communist General Giap would repeat his earlier mistakes...
Major James Jabara, 29, who earned the title of world's first jet ace when he downed six enemy MIGs during 63 missions in Korea last year, decided life as a Stateside training officer was a little dull. He applied for a return to combat duty to round out the normal Korean tour of 100 missions, because "I just wanna go out and do some more shootin'." Last week, in the comfort of his home at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, the happy warrior posed with his not-so-happy family. The Air Force had granted...