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...artillery from both armies. From Hwanggan to Yongdok on the east coast, MacArthur's headquarters estimated that 90,000 North Koreans had been poured in against the Americans and South Koreans. Major General Hobart R. Gay, dashing commander of the ist Cavalry, paraphrased World War I's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Said Gay: "Foch said that there comes a time in every battie when both commanders think they are losing. Then the one who attacks, wins. I shall attack."* General Gay did attack. An artillery barrage of white phosphorus shells caused an estimated 1,600 to 2,000 enemy...
...recall a conversation that came to my mind today which I had with Marshal Stalin at a very grim period of the war in December 1941. One night, after our discussions about the immediate situation were over and we were conversing more discursively, we spoke of Hitler. After all, the German armies were then about 40 miles from Moscow. We discussed his character and I remember that Marshal Stalin made this comment: 'We should not underrate Hitler. He is a very able man, but he made one mistake. He did not know when to stop...
...suppose I smiled. At any rate, Marshal Stalin turned to me and observed: 'You are smiling and I know why you are smiling. You think that if we are victorious, I shall not know when to stop. You are wrong. I shall know...
...West knows, he is otherwise in good health for a man of 70. The last outsiders to see him were members of the Finnish trade delegation which signed a treaty with the U.S.S.R. last month. Stalin, dressed in the grey uniform of a Soviet marshal, offered the Finns cigars, expressing regret that they were of Russian make and therefore no good, Russia having made cigars such a short while. Minister of Trade and Industry Sakari S. Tuomioja replied that they were not the best, but quite good nevertheless. A longish argument on the subject of cigars ensued, into which Premier...
Died. Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 80, bemedaled cavalryman who joined the British army in 1889, served with distinction in the Boer War and World War I, became Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1920-22) and Commander in Chief of the Army in India (1930-35); in London...