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...exiles entering from Costa Rica tried to kill him after a party at the U.S. embassy. About every dark of the moon since then, some kind of anti-Figueres plot has popped up. In July the U.S. got Somoza cooled off only after he had sent a mile-long convoy of armored cars and trucks to the Costa Rican border. But the current plot looked more like the big show than any of the warmups...
...tactical aircraft, most of them jets, on 160 airfields; batteries of U.S. atomic cannon and stockpiles of Matador guided missiles; twelve national navies; a vast trelliswork of communications, pipelines, storage dumps, officer-training schools. The immense martial array is controlled by three main international commands: SACLANT (for Atlantic convoy routes), CHANCOM (for the English Channel) and SACEUR (for Europe and the Mediterranean). Behind it lies the long-range strategic air power of the U.S. Strategic Air Command and Britain's Bomber Command. The bomber force, with its necklace of offensive air bases from Iceland to Iraq, is not directly...
...precise ends. It is State Department doctrine to talk of SEATO as an assemblage of like-minded nations, which will be broadened (it is always hoped) to include other nations later on. But a grand flotilla of allies must travel at the speed of the slowest ship in the convoy. The old-fashioned solution would be to make hard-and-fast arrangements-separately or in small groupings-with Syngman Rhee, with Chiang Kaishek, with Ramon Magsaysay, with Mohammed...
Thirty-five years ago this month, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker bade Godspeed to a convoy of 63 Army trucks leaving Washington on a daring transcontinental trek to prove that the gasoline engine had really replaced the mule. With the motor train rode a young Army observer, Lieut. Dwight D. Eisenhower. When the trucks crawled into San Francisco on Sept. 5, after 60 days and 6,000 breakdowns, the lieutenant was a confirmed advocate of an adequate, all-weather U.S. road system...
...Nothing comes before the true and lasting friendship between Britain and the United States." But once back home in Whitehall, the great man began presiding over a series of Cabinet meetings that might determine a new course for Britain. The possible course: eastbound, away from the U.S., in convoy with the French and other like-minded allies...