Word: radford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world from the strength of the best anti-Communist armies in Asia, the Republic of Korea forces and Chinese nationalist forces on Formosa. Held in by U.S. policy, Chiang's strength becomes a wasting, aging asset to the free world. Some U.S. planners, notably J.C.S. Chairman Admiral Arthur Radford, object strenuously to a policy which grants the Communists time to stabilize their position and prepare for a next move...
Then military logic began to work for Twining. In October 1953, the New Look went to the National Security Council. Treasury Secretary Humphrey said its price tag of $43 billion was too high. The new J.C.S. chairman. Admiral Arthur Radford, once an Air Force foe and target himself, put his finger on the reason: under the hazy foreign-policy directives inherited by the Eisenhower Administration, the J.C.S. simply had to prepare the Army, Navy and Air Force for big wars, little wars, and all kinds of wars to be cut and tailored to the enemy's initiative. And what...
...states and in areas sensitive to railroad and coal interests. But during the last fortnight, the bulwarks began to crack; one Senator after another shifted to support of the Seaway. The Administration appealed to the Republicans on the basis of national security and loyalty to the President. Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned the Senators that the Russians have six times as many submarines as the Germans did in 1939, said supplies of Canadian iron ore in a future war might depend on the Seaway...
...their way from Seoul to Manila for the inauguration of the Philippines' President-elect Ramon Magsaysay (see FOREIGN NEWS), Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur W. Radford and his wife Marian, along with Assistant Secretary of State (for Far Eastern Affairs) Walter S. Robertson, stopped off for two days in Formosa. There, in the Taipei home of Nationalist China's President Chiang Kaishek, the visitors struck a family-album sort of pose for photographers with the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang...
Eisenhower's instruments of pressure on the services were Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur Radford. Last week, with Wilson taking part in the discussions. Admiral Radford and the three service chiefs finished sketching out a defense program for 1956-58. Defense Department officials handed the sketch to the President, along with a draft of the 1955 defense budget...