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...first beat was in our January 2 issue when TIME'S editors reported that 1) the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making a 180° turn in their thinking, had decided to dispatch a military mission to Formosa, and 2) that President Truman had ordered his Cabinet officers to produce a clear-cut affirmative Asia policy for a meeting of the National Security Council the following week, at which he would preside...
...themselves, and (4) allocating millions to the development of navigation when commerce on the river is negligible. On top of all this, their administrative set-up is so complicated that they are probably still working on projects which will cancel each other out; it took a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial writer two years and a large amount of money to figure out just what they were doing...
Most of the others were waiting as Secretary of State Dean Acheson slipped through the side entrance of the White House executive wing and strode into the Cabinet room. He took his seat at the long, polished table, opened up his little tan leather dispatch case, waited for the conference to begin. At the table there were owlishly grave Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Acting Commerce Secretary Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, intelligence counselors and a brace of presidential aides. For the Defense Department also present were Under Secretary Steve Early, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews and General Omar Bradley, the chairman...
...Joint Chiefs recommended the dispatch of a small military mission, possibly no more than 20 officers, along the line of Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet's mission to Greece. Some time early in the year the Navy would probably dispatch an aircraft carrier into Western Pacific waters. Whether this would be enough to repel the expected all-out assault by the Communists next spring was up to the Nationalists themselves. What was more important, the U.S. was finally drawing a line in Asia, along which it would say to the spreading Communists: this far and no further...
Eben Roy Alexander, 50, born in Omaha, was educated at St. Louis University, entered journalism in 1921 as a reporter on the St. Louis Star, four years later went to the Post-Dispatch, and in 1939 joined TIME as a Business writer...