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...divisions. There were only six radio reporters in all of Japan when the first North Korean divisions rolled across the 38th parallel, and one in Korea. On the home front, during the first critical days of the fighting, such quidnunes as Walter Winchell, H. V. Kaltenborn, Drew Pearson and Fulton Lewis Jr. went on vacation. But the networks soon started making up for lost time...
...Canadian government yielded last week to a mounting public clamor to send Canadian ground force troops to Korea. With the country seemingly convinced that the three Canadian destroyers and a squadron of ten transport planes already assigned for the Korean campaign were not enough, External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson flew to Washington to get a firsthand appraisal of the military situation. The secret report he brought back to Ottawa helped tumble the last opposition. At a four-hour meeting, the cabinet decided that a brigade of 4,000 to 5,000 volunteers should be recruited immediately for the Korean front...
Columnist Drew Pearson had an inside tip on U.S. unpreparedness for readers of his "Washington Merry-Go-Round." Wrote he: although the ist Cavalry Division was "supposed to be one of the crack combat outfits of the Regular Army," its commander, Major General Hobart Gay, had suffered a heart attack and could not pass a physical examination. Because...
...condition, wrote Pearson, "Japan was picked for him as a soft berth." The facts: after a thorough physical examination at Walter Reed General Hospital, General Gay had been certified fit for full duty. On the same day that Pearson's column appeared, the newspapers blared across their front pages the news that Gay had led his division in an amphibious landing at Pohang, Korea (see WAR IN ASIA...
ROBERT G. PEARSON...