Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungarian Communist Party had disintegrated, the Hungarian army had defected, and the borders of Hungary were open to a host of sharp-eyed Western observers. Overnight the Revolution became a war strictly between Hungarians and Russians, with the world looking on. In this unexpected situation, the Soviet army command was forced to mark time while the forces they had alerted days before in Rumania (mostly Mongols and Tartars) could be brought...
Admitted Deputy Defense Minister Janusz Zarzycki, writing for his fellow officers in the military magazine Zolnierz Wolnosci (Soldier of Freedom): "The atmosphere actually prevailing in the army is worrying us greatly." He noted "loss of confidence in the party . . . symptoms of distrust towards the command . . . lack of faith in socialism and in its superiority over the capitalist system. There is a tendency to condemn all the work done in the past twelve years; we are also inclined not to notice all the "evil and all that is inhuman in the capitalist structure, or the aggressiveness of the imperialist policy which...
...British brigadier and a Republic of Korea air-force officer coldly confronted 40 North Korean commissars and military men. "I have a statement to make," began Major General Homer L. Litzenberg, U.S.M.C., in a level voice. Then, while the Communists listened attentively, he told them that the U.N. Command no longer felt bound by subparagraph 13D of the Korean armistice agreement-the clause limiting introduction of new weapons into Korea...
...year ago the outraged U.N. Command retaliated by ousting neutral inspection teams from South Korea, but continued to honor its own commitments. Though the Reds had neither jet planes nor operational airfields to handle them in North Korea at war's end, they had more than 500 jet fighters and 25 airfields there by this spring. (The U.N. has had six squadrons of F-86s on station since the armistice.) The two U.S. divisions in South Korea made do with old weapons, some no longer included in U.S. Army basic training. North Koreans and Chinese armored themselves...
...commanders were worried that the balance of military power in Korea was against them. Old Syngman Rhee bluntly demanded atomic weapons. This week, as the result of the Panmunjom meeting, a force of F-100 jet fighters capable of delivering tactical atomic bombs will begin to move into Korea. They will be followed by a shipment of up-to-date infantry weapons, but for the time being the U.N. Command will not get atomic rockets or guided missiles...