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During the Inchon campaign, Almond toured his front lines indefatigably. As early as 4 a.m., he would leave his 2½-ton trailer CP (equipped with refrigerator and alfresco shower) to drive his own jeep to some jumping-off point. He got to know by name every X Corps battalion commander, talked to several score men in the ranks daily. One G.I. gave him this passing mark: "The soldiers here may not like him, but they sure as hell admire him. That's one general who sticks his neck out just like we have...
Silting Tight. We reached the burning British consulate and established a CP in a house on the hill just below it. The smoke and dust were beginning to lift from Inchon's waterfront area. The fighting was sporadic. One patrol brought in a rather staggering prize: a whole platoon, led by its lieutenant, from the third battalion of the 26th North Korean regiment, the outfit defending Inchon. The patrol had moved in on the platoon, which gave up without a fight. The Korean lieutenant, eager to be cooperative, told Jaskilka that much of his battalion had been killed...
...Daily Worker called for a pilgrimage of "The Devoted?" to the Federal Courthouse in Foley Square. This particular pilgrimage consisted of somewhere under 500 of the pamphlet passing placard carrying species of Communist. All this comes under the heading of one of the fundamental maxims of the American CP, to wit: "the best way to get a fair trial is to insult the judge...
Appearing under the heading "New England Roundup," the item read as follows: "Student recruiting in area on upswing...Harvard CP established a "one-a-day" policy ... Kept it up five days without a break...Anybody beat...
...Communists can make use of their most influential offer, land reform, for fear of losing its strongest backer and wealthiest landholder in the country, the Church. Communists have been able to win power by playing on the one peasant devotion stronger than Catholicism, their love of the land. CP members all over the country have been visiting the poverty-stricken farms, asking the peasants what they need, and promising fulfillment if they vote for the Democratic Front. They insist the anyone can be a Communist and a Catholic at once...