Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free world's best military news last week registered most plainly in the outraged headlines of Rome's Communist daily L'Unità: ALARMING AMERICAN REVELATIONS OF AGREEMENT FOR MISSILES IN ITALY. The Red worry was well founded. Italy, after long debate, had decided to install two squadrons of U.S. intermediate-range (1,500 miles) ballistic missiles. The news from Rome put fresh mettle into NATO, greater depth and power into the West's entire defense structure...
...shek and South Korea's Syngman Rhee while restraining them (in personal missions) from impulsive counterattacks, helped build the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, recommended U.S. support for Nationalist China's defense of the offshore Quemoy and Matsu islands. He outargued liberal critics who urged the recognition of Red China, drew his moral from the record of the Truman Administration. "The U.S.," said he, "does bear a very large part of the responsibility for the loss of China to the Communists. If we had applied the policies we used in China to our European allies, we would have lost...
...leave. I want you for policy matters, and you can leave the detail stuff to other people." Last July Robertson wrote out a formal letter of resignation to President Eisenhower, was turned down again. Reason: the Quemoy crisis was brewing, and Robertson's resignation might be read by Red China to mean a softening of the U.S. position. Last week, when ailing Walter Robertson, 65, finally persuaded the President to accept his resignation effective July 1, he got a warm letter from the President, treasured most a sentence that read: "The policies which you have helped develop form...
...Foreign Service officer who served ably as deputy chief of Mission to Japan (1953-56), as U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1956-58), and sees eye to eye with Virginia-bound Walter Spencer Robertson on the need to base policy on the principle-proved correct again in Tibet-that Red China is "the enemy...
Magic Number. As the Pacific Express roared down the runway into the night, six of the bounced airmen clustered around a Red Cross worker in Colonel Platt's terminal. At Red Cross suggestion, A/1C Cole Y. Bell, trying to make it to an injured brother's bedside at Fort Campbell, Ky., tried to telephone the Fifth Air Force inspector general's office, with no luck. At that point a veteran sergeant suggested: "Why don't you call General Burns? If anyone can help you, he can. I used to serve under...