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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds drive south of the 38th parallel, then we ought to hit Manchurian industries, arsenals and power dams with conventional bombs. We ought to impose at once a blockade of the entire China coast and give extended aid to the Nationalists on Formosa. We are absolutely against any more concessions to Communism...
...Korea and had washed its hands of Formosa, where Chiang Kai-shek's diehard Nationalists prepared their last stand. Mao's army, harassed by Chiang's naval & air blockade, stood poised for an invasion. Then Stalin's North Koreans moved across the 38th parallel. In a dramatic turnabout of policy, the American eagle soared from its lackadaisical perch...
This country has over-hasty in its Korean policy since MacArthur crossed the thirty-eighth parallel before receiving U.N. authorization. A final push to the Yalu River, which would have put American troops right on the border, was an ill-advised move at a time when Chinese Communists were on their way to the U.N. They would have been faced with a fait accompli had they held back their troops, and their bargaining position would have been badly weakened. Therefore they launched an offensive, which so far shows little sign of slowing down...
...correspondent who accompanied Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker's army by jeep said the retreat ended somewhere south of the 38th parallel, with the army moving into new positions there
Communist troops occupied Pyongyang yesterday, only eight hours after the U. N.'s rear guard left, despite heavy allied air attacks. The Eighth Army is reported to be stopping its southerly retreat somewhere below the 38th parallel, north of Seoul, and preparing to hold a line in the hills above the border...