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...committee meets every Wednesday at Du Pont's GHQ: the ninth floor of Wilmington's Du Pont Building. It meets all day, lunching with top men from the line departments and lower-echelon people who get to know the top command in this fashion. The top command also learns to know those in the lower echelons. Says Greenewalt: "I started looking for my successor the first year I was in office...
...TIME does not agree with Newsman Handleman that its story was misleading. The nub of TIME'S story, so far as it dealt with Handleman, was that he had broken a correspondents' agreement to wait for an official GHQ release before reporting the arrival of new troops...
...Handleman, International News Service bureau chief in Tokyo, who wrote the first dispatch announcing that fresh U.S. troops had arrived in Korea to the tune of two brass bands. Handleman's report violated a correspondents' agreement to wait for an official release from General Headquarters, ignored a GHQ ruling against revealing the arrival of new units until they were in action. After he filed, U.P. put out the story also. Said Handleman in self-justification : "I stand on what I file. If they had two bands down at the dock to meet them...
...artillery, to Korea by sea. One battalion of the 24th was flown to Pusan and shipped to the Kum River front by rail. Major General William F. Dean, the 24th's commander, was appointed commanding general of all U.S. forces in Korea, with Church as his senior GHQ liaison officer. Meanwhile four enemy columns were reported moving south, one of them outflanking Suwon. The U.S. troops in the field deployed to meet them. One unit got its first taste of combat when five Yaks strafed them savagely, for 25 minutes, with rockets and machine guns...
...Behind Bamboo. Japanese, on the whole, are deeply grateful to Americans; but they like military government no better than any other people. A popular quip among English-speaking Japanese holds that the letters GHQ on Americans' uniforms stand for: "Go Home Quick...