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...unlimited power to commit troops," said Taft, were "based on the most superficial arguments." Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry introduced a resolution which would prohibit the President from sending any troops to Europe, except for the purpose of repelling an outright attack or as part of the present garrison in Germany...
...last week, in the western flatlands below Seoul, U.S. tanks found good going on hard-frozen roads. Out of recaptured Osan, two armor-tipped task forces -officially labeled a "reconnaissance in force"-rumbled north at 15 to 20 m.p.h. They caught most of the Chinese garrison in Suwon warming themselves in houses. The first shot was fired by an 18-year-old pfc. who spotted a Red scampering across a field, dropped him with one rifle bullet...
...Chinese didn't play that way. Shortly after midnight on Oct. 19, the sleeping garrison of Chamdo was awakened by the crash of explosions on the night air. Bright lights "like tiny suns" shredded the sky, as Chinese troops concealed outside the city set off hundreds of rounds of rockets, star shells and other pyrotechnics. Terror-stricken civilians ran through the streets. The cry went up that Chamdo was surrounded and resistance hopeless...
...captain's plan later worked well enough when four Red battalions poured over Da-Phuc at night. At least part of the garrison held out underground until reinforcements arrived next morning...
...Army (compared with 3,500,000 currently contemplated by the Administration) would, he calculated, cost $40 billion a year. The bill could be paid by taxes. The Administration's military program would cost $20 or $30 billion more a year, turn the U.S. into a garrison state, probably destroy the national economy and thereby give Russia the capitalistic collapse she has always hoped for. "The key to all the problems before this Congress," said Taft, "lies in the size of our military budget...