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...news last week was that the U.N. forces-or at least their spokesmen -had regained confidence. Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins, back in Washington from Tokyo and Korea, turned in an optimistic report to Secretary Marshall and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Pentagon had its most buoyant week since November. In the field, the 3rd Division's Major General Robert H. Soule displayed a gamecock's confidence: "If they order us, we will go back and take Seoul. We can stop anything they [the Communists] can throw...
...Eighth Army headquarters in Korea this week, Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins put an end to speculation over whether the U.S. would fight on in Korea or get out. The U.S., said General Collins firmly, would "stay and fight." He added that replacements were already flowing to divisions depleted in recent Communist offensives, and that new units, including one new Army division, would go out "in two or three months." No men would be shipped to Korea without their full four months of basic training...
...command of the Eighth Army, MacArthur announced the appointment of Lieut. General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, U.S. pioneer of the airborne assault in World War II, who was in Washington last week as deputy to Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins. Born at Fort Monroe, Va. 55 years ago, Ridgway planned the first large-scale U.S. parachute-troop operation in Sicily (1943). Through no fault of his, that one was a snafu, but he kept on tirelessly pushing the airborne doctrine, jumped with his troops (the 82nd Airborne Division) in Normandy, later became commander of an airborne corps...
...Dispatched grim-faced General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, posthaste for Japan and Korea to see MacArthur...
Putting down his pruning shears, Budget Director Frederick Lawton announced happily that he had cut $580 million in non-defense items off the $36 billion omnibus appropriations act for fiscal 1951. The cut was $30 million more than had been ordered by Congress, which had timorously refused to make its own economies. Director Lawton left himself a big loophole, however. The extra $30 million would be put in reserve, to be doled out to the agencies if they felt a pinch later...