Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London. "The demand for TIME is up about 20% since the onset of the Korean war. To some extent the increase is due to American visitors, 'but mainly it is due to British interest in Korea. The people feel that they are vitally affected and want to get firsthand news. According to one of our biggest wholesalers, 'The people want to see how the Americans feel the war is going in Korea...
...that this is an especially terrible war. It is so for reasons which every American must understand if we are to grasp the extent, the nature and the immense complexities of our problem in Asia. Much of this war is alien to the American tradition and shocking to the American mind. For our men in Korea are waging this war as they are forced to wage it and as they will be forced to wage any war against the Communists anywhere in Asia...
...Korea today our military and political positions are intimately interwoven. For this is a guerrilla war, waged amongst and to some extent by the population of the country. For proof of this, come with me to South Korea and see with me some of the scenes that I have lately witnessed or heard of at firsthand...
...temerity, the board heard from Congress at appropriations time; the stockpile budget was whacked about $50 million every year. "We're going to see to it," said Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas last year, "that [the Munitions Board] concentrates on buying stuff at home, even to the extent of paying more for it here...
...MacArthur cared to establish on Formosa would be welcomed. But the conditions attached to this attitude must be clearly understood by everyone concerned. First, the sovereignty of Nationalist China must not be infringed-it is of utmost importance that everyone understand that this principle will be upheld to any extent and in any way necessary by the Nationalist forces on Formosa. Nationalist China is not defenseless; it has large forces on Formosa, and they will defend Formosa against anyone who seeks to infringe the sovereignty of Nationalist China...