Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late in World War II, while Allied armies crunched slowly up the peninsula, Italian partisans fought Germans in the north. As they usually do in desperate straits, the Communists made common cause with nonCommunists. Later-as they usually do when victory seems near-they turned on their erstwhile friends and tried to liquidate them...
Last week Socony, the only U.S. producer in Egypt, gave that government a lesson of the same sort. Socony, which is producing 11,000 barrels of crude daily on the Sinai Peninsula, also maintained a branch to hunt for more oil, which Egypt needs. But Egypt has forbidden any new oil leases to foreign companies unless they are 51% owned by Egyptian nationals. Rather than set up a new company, Socony stopped drilling in Egypt...
...from two massive spring offensives that failed. Now, admitted Truce Negotiator Vice Admiral Joy last week, the U.N. has become militarily weaker and the Communists stronger. Despite the foolishly overnamed Air Force "Operation Strangle," the Communists have been able to build up strong defenses extending 20 miles up the peninsula. The U.N. commanders are confident that they can still beat off an offensive, but they are no longer in a position to launch a U.N. offensive without 1) powerful reinforcements, 2) heavy casualties. Said realistic Admiral Joy: "The speed of reaching an armistice is in direct proportion to military pressure...
Strategic Initiative. This plan is not necessarily an "expansion" or "extension" of the U.S. armed commitment in Asia. It can be just the opposite. Holding the war to the narrow limits of the Korean peninsula has strained U.S. naval and strategic air power by giving it a task for which it was not designed. Last week the U.S.A.F.'s Major General Roger M. Ramey, operations, chief of the Air Force general staff, said: "It is the Yalu River which has forced upon [us] an air war that is predominantly tactical. Less than 3% of the entire Far East...
...Whatever the Communists do, the U.S. will not be drawn into a resumption of the struggle on the Korean peninsula, which is not a good place for the U.S. to fight. Therefore the U.S. will be able to reduce greatly its present forces in Korea...