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Since then, the U.N. and the U.S. have totally ignored the plain China and political opportunity to hit lawbreaker China in the flank with air and sea power. To do so would be to cross the border of China, just seized by a gang of cutthroats who have no respect for anybody else's borders. The U.N. has been concentrating on the danger of provoking the Communists. Judging by the Communist reaction to U.N. politeness, nothing provokes a Red as much as non-provocation...
...into the crumbling French forces in Indo-China, last week threw 12,000 of his soldiers into a counterattack against the Reds. He carefully pointed out that it was not the big offensive he hoped to launch, but only an operation de degagement to relieve pressure on the northeastern flank of the French-held Red River delta. Communist probing attacks have penetrated perilously close to Hanoi, threatened to cut the city off from the supply port of Haiphong...
...west flank of the Seoul front, in the sector split by the road from Kaesong, units of the U.S. 25th Division and the British Commonwealth 29th Brigade had come under attack almost simultaneously. The Chinese were attacking all along the British line, against the Royal Ulster Rifles, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and the Gloucestershires. The British regulars had been spoiling for a fight ever since they landed in Korea some two months before, and now they were getting one. Said an officer at the brigade C.P.: "My best company commander's got bullet holes all up the side...
...issue and relying on Washington's refusal to let Chiang Kai-shek strike from Formosa, had sent into the Korean war the vast majority of the well-trained Chinese Communist armies. If U.S. leaders realized they were in a war, they would also realize that China's flank was wide open and the supply line of the Chinese fighting armies was highly vulnerable to air and sea attack...
...Pusan (TIME, Dec. 25)-Douglas MacArthur made a bolder decision: hold a line across the Korean peninsula, just below the 38th parallel. Since the line was about 150 miles long, it was not continuous but a series of strong points, with R.O.K. divisions apparently stationed on the right flank. In case of a cave-in on the right flank, the line could be pulled back around Seoul to form a semicircle with both flanks anchored on the Yellow...