Word: confidental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Clark is a proud and ambitious man; almost all good generals are. His enemies and critics say also that he is impulsive and overfond of publicity. In part these opinions are a recollection of the brash young general, enamored with cloak & dagger stuff, that Clark was ten years ago...
"If you go to sea under Mars," said one of his crew the day Mars got the D.S.O. at Buckingham Palace, "you know you're all right." After the war Mars himself was less confident. In peacetime, he soon found, shoal waters and depth charges are not the only...
He was confident, he said, but not complacent. So long as any sizable number of Malaya's peaceful Chinese colony sympathizes with the guerrillas, it is doubtful whether the British can wipe the guerrillas out entirely. The problem is to give Malaya's 2,500,000 economically powerful...
With that, the negotiations collapsed. The steelmasters, confident that the Government would allow them a price increase, had tentatively offered a bigger wage-benefit boost than most observers thought they would. By doing so, they had hoped to isolate the union-shop issue, so that they could argue that Murray...
Glumly, the nation's mobilizers turned their attention to living with the strike. They would try to route critical orders to the 29 steel plants still operating (because their workers are unorganized, or because they have new or unexpired contracts), and they would try to take advantage of Phil...