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...Americans did not settle down on the new line. They pushed another reconnaissance in force-three armored patrols-north to disturb the Reds in Wonju if any were there. The town was unoccupied except for a few dispirited civilians wandering among the ruins. Later a North Korean assault from three sides drove the G.I.s out. Once more, at week's end, they went in for a quick look and then retired...
There was a case to be made for keeping Dean Acheson. His removal would deeply disturb Western Europe, which generally admires him and shares his distaste for involvement in Asia. Western Europe already has ample reason to regard the U.S., embroiled in its foreign policy debate, with uncertainty and bewilderment. Acheson is widely regarded as the most forceful man in the Cabinet. In the diplomatic arena, he is a skillful expositor of policies. Harry Truman leans heavily on Acheson for the knowledge of foreign affairs which he himself lacks. The entire Administration, including many...
...somebody." But then he pulled his blanket over his shoulder and went to sleep. His crash landing is the only war experience Tatum dreams about. The men in white he shot on the road, or the old woman's detached arms and legs, never disturb his sleep...
Touch & Go. After Harry Truman telephoned him last week, Charlie Wilson slipped back to Washington by private plane, hustled from the airport to confer with Stu Symington. Then he checked in briefly with Secretary Sawyer. The mobilizers and stabilizers hoped he would not disturb their decentralized setup, until it became absolutely necessary to create a super-Office of Defense Mobilization. Said Wilson noncommittally: "I am in an exploratory frame of mind...
...Pentagon, where top military men were anxious not to have too much mobilization too fast. Their argument went thus: it would be chaotic to throw millions of men into uniform without enough weapons to fight with or enough men to train them; to do so would also disturb the production of war goods by robbing defense plants of men before the plants were in shape to replace them. One of General George Catlett Marshall's convictions is that all-out mobilization should be ordered only at the certain prospect of war, and he is not yet convinced that...