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NATO's front, like the ocean sector it is named for, stretches from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. In the northern and central sectors, General Dwight Eisenhower and his fellow commanders have a solid organizational line, running from Scandinavia through Middle Europe. But on the southern flank, NATO ends with Italy. It does not embrace Greece and Turkey, the guardians of the eastern Mediterranean...
From the Korean battlefront came new evidence of the enemy buildup. In a week of careful probing, U.N. patrols identified two new Red armies (some 150,000 men) in the line. On the east-central flank, massed Red guns swept Eighth Army patrols off a strategic hill. Allied warships plastering Wonsan harbor for the 161st straight day encountered more powerful shore batteries. U.N. jet fighters were pounced on by MIGs, freshly equipped with wing fuel tanks which would enable them to operate far behind allied lines. Hundreds of Russian-made tanks maneuvered north of Kaesong...
...military men have long argued that Greece and Turkey, on the far-flung right-flank of the North Atlantic nations, should be full-fledged members of NATO. The British have long argued that to extend NATO to the Near East would spread its forces too thin, politically and materially. Instead, the British wanted Turkey to be the center of a separate Near East defense plan, though they were vague about how to achieve it. Last week, Britain threw in her weight with the U.S., formally came out for bringing Turkey and Greece into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...eastern flank, the Reds also held their ground doggedly. In that sector the North Korean troops, badly beaten earlier in the war, made a comeback, fought well...
...allied advance in the center and the Reds' tenacious stand in the east had left them with a huge salient bulging into the Eighth Army's right flank. Last week, hopeful dispatches mentioned the possibility of cutting off this salient by a thrust from the Pyonggang area north to the port of Wonsan. On the map, another allied move seemed to be possible: an invasion of the Wonsan area from the sea. If a beachhead could be established there, the base of the enemy salient could be squeezed from both sides and .would probably become untenable. It would...