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...Right Man. When Mussolini's legions rolled into Greece in 1940, Greek Chief of Staff Papagos in a black leather, ankle-length coat, cigarette in hand, went to the snowbound front to deploy his units. To the delight of the democratic world, his small, tough army whipped the Italians. Hitler delayed his attack on the U.S.S.R. and sent crack divisions to Mussolini's rescue; for three weeks Papagos and his evzones fought the Germans until overwhelming odds made him end the battle "to prevent Greece from being devastated." The Germans sent him to a VIP military prison...
...President yesterday requested that Congress authorize him to use force against any Red China aggression, to re-deploy Chinese Nationalist troops with American ships, and to ask the United Nations to negotiate a cease-fire...
...24th Division fought a series of desperate delaying actions designed to slow the Red flood and borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...
...stronger, and more skillfully led than at any time since the emergency began." To contain the Mau Mau, who have be gun to mount attacks in company strength, the British have been forced to deploy 5,500 British infantrymen (many of them from the Suez Canal Zone) and 4,000 African Riflemen, at a cost of $700,000 a month. Thousands of Kikuyu are in jail, tens of thousands in hiding, yet Mau Mau gangs terrorize the countryside within sight of Nairobi...
Getting such ancient enemies together was an amazing tribute to the Russians; it was concern about the common peril which had united Greece and Turkey, made them NATO's newest partners, and led them to deploy their 29 divisions to guard the southern anchor of the Atlantic defense line. An old Istanbul grocer who fought the Greeks under Ataturk explained the change simply: "The Greeks don't like the Russians much and I hate them...