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...with this thing, where we cannot afford to go on any longer. The American people are losing patience, and I'm afraid that we may be reaching the breaking point." But the Pentagon was not all impatience. The Army's top brass, Generals Omar Bradley and J. Lawton Collins, favored sticking it out at Panmunjom so long as the Communists were willing to talk and not start up a fresh offensive. They felt that the stalemate was, in effect, a gain for the U.S.; it kept down casualties and meanwhile provided a training ground for troops...
...conngressional committee last week that student deferments might be cancelled altogether during the coming year. And Army authorities stated this week that more students might have to be taken this year to replace Korean veterans who "will be rotated before Christmas" according to Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins...
...Joseph Lawton Collins...
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...high brass fanned out over Western Europe. Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins last week wound up a tour that took him to Paris, Frankfurt, Salzburg and Trieste. General Omar Bradley stopped in Paris to talk over lagging weapons production, went on to London where he tried, but failed, to settle the question of whether a British or U.S. admiral was to command in the Mediterranean. Only the Navy's Admiral Forrest Sherman was still at home and he, too, was getting ready for the grand tour...