Word: garrisoning
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...been severely disconcerted by the bold U.S. intervention in Korea, but Stalin's men have a way of recovering quickly from surprises. Facing this week's situation, they were well aware that nearly all combat-ready ground troops at U.S. disposal, except for thin minimum needs for garrison duty, were committed, or soon would be, in Korea. No man could soundly predict victory in Korea by Thanksgiving or for that matter by the next Thanksgiving unless he ignored the possibility that Moscow might set up a brushfire somewhere else, or intensify the force in Korea, e.g., by getting...
...South Korean troops were still the only U.N. ground forces in the war. Promises from other nations of about 33,000 men were still unfulfilled. This week, in response to MacArthur's plea, London ordered the immediate dispatch of two battalions (1,500 men) from the Hong Kong garrison, part of 6,000 Britons who have been pledged to fight in Korea...
...Green Huntsman, by Henri Beyle (Stendhal). Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June...
Great Britain announced that it would boost its defense budget by 45%, spending more than $9.5 billion in the next three years. At present, one of Britain's five divisions is tied down fighting Communists in Malaya, two are on garrison duty in Hong Kong and North Africa. Britain has a reserve of 4,000,000 trained or partially trained men, but they have virtually no equipment. The British army is underpaid, but so far the Labor government has not been able to bring itself to grant a pay raise which would spur enlistments-it might make trade unionists...
...Green Huntsman, by Henri Beyle (Stendhal). Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June...