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...help to you." At week's end Firth & Brown had only three directors left, two of them recent government appointees. ". . . The company as a continuous living organism," said the London Times, "has . . . lost its identity." Britons worried that such firings would rob the industry of its best men, disrupt the production of Britain's badly needed 16 million tons of steel a year. Unruffled, State Steel Boss Hardie planned further shakeups...
...sorts of explanations for its go-slow mobilization. Following the doctrine laid down by George Marshall, planners base their compromise on the unpredictable reality of a cold war, which might hot up at any moment, or simmer for ten years. They argue first that they do not want to disrupt the civilian economy (the military used to state its needs bluntly, leave to somebody else the onus of ruling that the nation couldn't afford it). George Marshall likes to say that the U.S. cannot mobilize too fast, or it will be "all dressed up with no place...
...forces did not sit back and wait for the next blow. They sent out patrols and powerful armored forces to seek out and harry the enemy, disrupt his buildup. In the center, the U.N. forces actually pushed their main line forward several thousand yards, to give the scouting and harassing parties a more favorable advance base...
Each week the Korean war was costing the U.S. 1,300 casualties, and still there was no plan for victory. Cautiously keeping contact with the enemy, U.N. forces found indisputable evidence that he was readying an offensive, and did their best to disrupt it by air and commando assaults (see WAR IN ASIA). But the barriers reared by the United Nations and the U.S. State Department stood between the allied air and sea forces and the most vulnerable enemy areas; they were not permitted to strike across the Manchurian border at his bases, or to cut into...
Last November Moscow made a clear-as-vodka attempt to disrupt the Western decision to rearm Western Germany: the Kremlin held out the enticing prospect of another Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. The U.S., Britain and France replied that such a talk must include not only the question of Germany but of other areas of disagreement as well. On New Year's Eve, the Russians answered. They reaffirmed their offer to talk about Germany, but gave neither a flat da nor a flat niet on whether they were willing to talk about the other sore spots...