Word: manchurian
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...allies stood at the abyss of disaster. The Chinese Communists, pouring across the Manchurian border in vast formations, had smashed the U.N. army, this week were clawing forward to pursue and destroy its still-organized fragments. Caught in the desperate retreat were 140,000 American troops, the flower of the U.S. Army-almost the whole effective Army the U.S. had. With them, fighting to establish a defensive position, were 20,000 British, Turkish and other allies, some 100,000 South Korean soldiers...
...know (and so did all the world) that the Chinese Communists had been strengthening their forces on the Manchurian-Korean border ever since the beginning of the Korean war. Nobody knew, and MacArthur's intelligence could not be blamed for not knowing, what the Chinese Communists intended to do with these forces. A reasonable argument was that if the Chinese had intended to come in, the best time was last July when they and the North Koreans could easily have pushed the U.N. forces off the peninsula at little cost to the Chinese. That was the consensus at Washington...
...crushing Chinese counteroffensive in Korea had put General MacArthur on the griddle at home and in Europe. In Washington, carefully anonymous military officials who love to chuck harpoons at MacArthur leaked reports that he had defied Administration suggestions that he halt his troops well short of the Korean-Manchurian border. Nervous European politicians charged bitterly that MacArthur wanted to plunge the U.S. and her allies into a major Asiatic war which would leave Europe undefended. MacArthur promptly struck back at his critics through the press. In a statement solicited by the New York Times's Arthur Krock, MacArthur denied...
...effectiveness of the U.N. air force had been severely limited by the fact that, like U.N. ground and naval forces, it was forbidden to strike at the enemy's main Manchurian bases-"an enormous handicap unprecedented in military history." But the real reason for the U.N.'s reverses, said MacArthur, was sheer weight of numbers. "As far as I can see," said MacArthur, "no strategical or tactical mistakes were made of any basic proportion...
There is still no word from the U.S. 17th Regimental Combat Team, ordered, to withdraw from positions on the Manchurian border several days...