Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forward with its psychological offensive against the Communist enemy of the Far East, letting enough news of U.S. military potentialities leak out to make its threat a real one. Latest warrior to park his POLICE car ostentatiously was Admiral Arthur W. Radford, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. As soon as Radford landed in Washington (from headquarters in Pearl Harbor) last week, he was summoned to a White House conference with President Eisenhower. Radford came & went publicly, but gave not a hint of the reason for the visit. Nonetheless, the word got around that he was giving...
President Eisenhower's State of the Union speech (TIME, Feb. 9) outlined the areas for action. Eisenhower's order removing the U.S. Seventh Fleet as a formal barrier to Chinese Nationalist attacks on the Communist mainland provoked some Democratic questions in Congress, but at the very minimum succeeded in getting both the U.S. and U.S. allies in Western Europe to think hard along the new lines of initiative...
...halfway across the Indian Ocean, on course for the China coast. The only remaining chance of stopping her legally lay with Nationalist China's navy, which claims to be blockading the Communist mainland. But old China hands doubt that the tanker can be stopped unless U.S. Seventh Fleet airplanes join in the search. The Wiima can too easily stay out of range of Nationalist air patrols by hugging the mainland coast...
...matters of Far Eastern policy, Canada's External Affairs Minister Lester Pearson tends to see eye to eye with Britain's Anthony Eden and India's Jawaharlal Nehru. But last week, when both Eden and Nehru criticized the U.S. decision to end the Seventh Fleet patrol off Formosa (see INTERNATIONAL), Pearson cautiously parted company with them. Rising in Parliament, he said: "[The] statement by President Eisenhower . . . contained much that was wise and heartening to us all ... Canadians know President Eisenhower well . . . and have full confidence ... in his peaceful and constructive purposes. And I am convinced that...
...Arcadia, Calif., Calumet Farm's Mark-Ye-Well (Eddie Arcaro up) and Fleet Bird ran one-two in the $161,975 Santa Anita Maturity, winning $85,600 of the jackpot for first, $30,000 more for second place...