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...free nations." But by the end of the war, the press had accepted the Army's insistence that it show some responsibility. On their side, most of the generals recognized the correspondent as at least a necessary evil; they began to accredit him officially, supply him with fodder for his horse, bivouac for his tired bones, and, every now & then, even a tot of whisky...
...cried, is using Asians as "cannon fodder," building "strong armies-in Japan, Formosa, Burma, Pakistan, Thailand and South Korea.'' What seemed to worry the Soviet delegate was the fact that these armies might one day be used to defend Asia from Communist aggression. "It is clear," he snapped, "that there can be no question of a peaceful program in such circumstances...
...country's economy is now almost wholly geared to Russia. Under a new trade agreement, the Finns will continue to deliver goods to Russia. In exchange, they will get whatever goods (wheat, fodder, gasoline, oil, fertilizers) the Russians see fit to spare them...
...drilling teams, sent in to open up new artesian wells, could not cope with a drought of this magnitude. Drovers who tried to take their herds south over the regular stock routes that skirt Australia's vast central desert found plenty of well water, but no grazing. Some fodder was brought in, but the cost was prohibitive. In the northern pasture land the water holes began filling up with rotting carcasses. Cattlemen were killing the calves, burning dead beasts in heaps of 50, while crows and kitehawks slowly circled in the cloudless blue sky. Drought toll to date: more...
Asia is not afraid we will use it as cannon fodder in our drive to contain communism. Owen Lattimore told over 600 listeners at the China seminar of the All College Conference last Saturday. It fears more that the West will try to reestablish colonialism there...