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...bitter over U.S. indifference to Korea before World War II, and outraged by U.S. acceptance of the postwar partition of his country. Last week Rhee wrote to the U.N. Security Council: "Almost all the civilized world has rallied to support the Republic of Korea, knowing if the Communists could conquer here, there was no place where they would not try to conquer...
...Beyond Subversion." 'The attack upon Korea," said the President of the U.S., "makes it plain beyond all doubt that Communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer independent nations and will now use armed invasion and war." To meet this clear challenge, thus clearly recognized, he ordered...
...attack upon Korea makes it plain beyond all doubt that Communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer independent nations and will now use armed invasion...
China's Communists, warned Mao, must conquer complacency and stop thinking of themselves as heroes. Despite past successes, the Communist government still had to deal with vital problems, particularly in the more recently "liberated" areas, which support an estimated 310 million of China's people. In these areas, Mao admitted: "There are still more than 400,000 bandits [i.e., Nationalist guerrillas] to be annihilated; the land problem has not been solved; industry and commerce have not been properly adjusted; unemployment is still serious, and social order has not yet been stabilized...
Living in Glamour. At 20 (and looking younger), unrestrainedly ambitious and insufferably cocksure, Zanuck set out to conquer Hollywood. He quickly became the nuisance of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, which was then home to such important personages as Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett and Fatty Arbuckle. "I'd have given my right arm to be in the picture business," he recalls. "Living in the glamour of it, hearing stories about it all day long and not being a part of it, hurt...