Word: macs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Threadbare Argument." Mac-Arthur's statement was drawn after the Veterans of Foreign Wars had asked the general, "should it be your desire," to send a message which could be read at the V.F.W. convention in Chicago this week. It was very much his desire. He sat down and wrote an eloquent statement on the situation which, next to Korea, was most on his mind-the situation of Formosa...
Military victory in Korea by the United Nations forces now seems assured unless Mac Tzo Tung's Chinese Communists enter the war. All of the experts feared that war with Mac would be fruitless for both sides and Fairbank and Hopper feel that Chinese entry into the Korea fight is a possibility. Fairbank says there is still a danger of Chinese intervention if U.N. troops cross the 38th parallel. War with Red China, he said, would be a bleeding conflict in which "we could not beat them or they...
Reischauer, however, was less pessimistic on this point. "The Chinese Communists," he said, "are striving to create a strong China and are unlikely to run the cost of getting involved in Korea. Perhaps Moscow could force Mac's entry, but that will only occur if Russia is ready...
...essential," said Douglas Mac-Arthur in a report last week to U.N., "to act speedily ... It is my sincere hope that the member nations . . . will without delay build up the strength of our ground forces [in Korea...
Last week, after the Herald Tribune had added its protests to those of Correspondent Higgins, General Douglas Mac-Arthur reversed Walker's ruling. To the Herald Tribune, MacArthur sent a soothing telegram: "Ban on women correspondents in Korea has been lifted. Marguerite Higgins is held in highest professional esteem by everyone...