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...save face, Greeks do not like to admit how badly off they are. The young prefect of a district described to me how his town was virtually encircled, how its garrison was outnumbered, how nearby villages were raided nightly, how he was at a total loss to feed and house all the thousands of refugees who had flocked in to the relative safety of the town. He painted a hopeless picture. Finally a British correspondent with me commented that, judging by the way the prefect talked, the guerrillas were winning the battle in this area...
...girls, "sitting erect and in good order," being addressed by a police official. "During this time of our Government's general mobilization," the official said, "you should stand by your posts and remember your duty to your country. [Your part] is as important as city walls and regular garrison troops." They should find out, he added, "what lies within the hearts of your guests and influence them toward .correct thinking." If they discovered a Communist they should "delay his departure until the police are summoned...
...battle of the Indoor Athletic Building moved into its final stages Thursday evening and yesterday as the University Housing Office, breaking its own deadline by 36 hours, assigned the last member of the beleaguered undergraduate garrison billeted there to rooms in the Yard or in the Dudley, Apley, Claverly. Little chain...
There has also been trouble at Peita-shan, a mud-garrison hamlet on the Peita-shan range two days' drive from Sin-kiang's dingy little capital, Tihua. Last June, Outer Mongolian cavalrymen, backed by five Russian planes, demanded that the Chinese surrender the position. The Chinese held on despite some bombing attacks. They are still there, holding the Peitashan heights. Through field glasses, the Chinese can watch Mongolian patrols on the north side of the range...
After studying the problem for a year, President Truman's seven-man Air Coordinating Committee, which is headed by Assistant Secretary of State Garrison Norton and Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman James M. Landis, last week published a 17-page report on U.S. aviation policy. The gist of it was that something would have to be done, and in a hurry, if U.S. air power is not to slip into impotence. The reason: the U.S. air industry, which has fallen rapidly to peacetime rags from wartime riches, is just about on the rocks...