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...them?" a Jordan colonel asked. "Yes," answered an officer in a forward post. "I estimate a regiment." Moments later the Israelis struck in three forces, swarming over two village National Guard outposts and bayoneting the defenders, advancing with halftracks against their main objective, the Husan police fortress commanding the Jerusalem-Bethlehem road. After a bitter fight, they dynamited the fort with a roar heard in Jerusalem 20 miles away...
...particularly galling that his old friend John Foster Dulles had not given him advance warning of the Radford plan (TIME, Sept. 3). U.S. assurances failed to calm him. The more he pondered, the more Adenauer became convinced that the U.S. was on the verge of withdrawing to "Fortress America." Under such circumstances, he decided, West Germany had no choice but to abandon unquestioning loyalty to U.S. policy and start looking after its own interests...
...Eden's prompt hints that Britain, too, planned to "go nuclear"-clearly foreshadowed a reduction in the number of Anglo-American troops stationed in West Germany, possibly even-in the excitable conclusion-jumping of the German press (and the New York Times)-a neo-isolationist U.S. retreat to "Fortress America." Adenauer had argued that conscription was necessary to raise the twelve divisions West Germany had promised NATO. Then Dulles himself conceded in a press conference that, as part of a general shift away from conventional military forces. NATO might no longer need so many German divisions...
...Fortress America." There was another kind of mixture in the leaks that held highly explosive implications for the welfare and safety of the U.S., especially since the Communists are doing everything they can to make neutralism inviting. In making their case to Leviero, the leakers whispered that the manpower cuts meant that the U.S. intended to retreat into "Fortress America" and abandon its allies overseas. Only last month, in a similar desperate gamble to preserve the Army's status quo, Lieut. General James M. Gavin, the Army's razor-sharp director of research and development, told a Senate...
...directing Henry, Douglas Seale has exploited the set's physical advantages to the limit. He stages the battles with uninhibited gusto, now sending his soldiers leaping into the audience, now bringing them onstage with ladders to scale the besieged fortress. He takes care, it seems, to avoid having his characters leave the stage by the same exit any two times during the evening. Indeed, Seale has probably been too assiduous in filling the background of each scene with two or three people leaning against posts or draped over railings; this often gives an artificial, posed effect. But in general Seale...