Word: lawton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once more getting involved. President Eisenhower last week sent General J. Lawton Collins, onetime Army Chief of Staff, to South Viet Nam to see what could be done. "Lightning Joe" Collins found himself in a devil's brew of cynicism, intrigue and despair. His own role was difficult. He would not be able to give orders; he would only be able to recommend, pressure and persuade. U.S. officials on the scene would like the French to recall their mission from Hanoi and quit dealing with Ho Chi Minh, to call the Vietnamese generals off Diem...
...with ruthless Communist efficiency; the southern or free half is rent by feuds, and impotently governed by its honest but ineffective Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Last week, in an effort to restore some order in South Viet Nam, President Eisenhower dispatched former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins to Indo-China as his special ambassador. It will be Joe Collins' task to try to resolve the feuding between Diem and his generals, to coordinate and overhaul all U.S. aid to the tortured nation, to combat "the dangerous forces threatening its independence and security," to keep...
Allen D. Sapp '42, Teaching Fellow in Music, arranged for the composition, and recording of the music. Included in the record was a Dryden ode, set to music by Sapp and performed by the University of California chorus under Edward B. Lawton '34 and "Kyrie" by Virgil G. Thomson '22, performed by Fiske University under Harry E. von Bergen...
...LAWTON RILEY Dean...
...week in the U.S.'s battle of wills with stubborn old Syngman Rhee. When it came down to it, Rhee had an imposing show of power. How to counter it was the subject of a conference called by Mark Clark, and attended by Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins, Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor and Far East air and naval commanders. Clark & Co. decided that Rhee could...