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...imposition of full economic control would require possibly half a million civilian officials, the policing of nearly 1 billion transactions a day, said Taft. The bill, which Bernard Baruch had argued was the minimum necessary, would, according to Taft, give Harry Truman "arbitrary dictatorial power" to regiment the economy; Congress should have its hand on the lever of every war manufacturing program...
TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney was in Pusan last week when the first troops of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, confident and well equipped, arrived from the U.S. and moved out to the front. Later, Gibney went up to join a regiment of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division, which had been fighting steadily for 31 days. What he saw, a platoon-eye view of the war, gave a very different picture from sweeping communiques of how the Americans were doing in Korea. Gibney cabled...
JAMES SHELTON, a 21-year-old private from Company D, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, was awakened from the sleep of the exhausted by the zing of Communist bullets over his foxhole. For an hour before, confident Communist infantrymen, their conical Russian helmets sticking up like mushrooms through the early morning mist, had marched along a steep dirt road to a mountain pass commanding the U.S. positions. Wakeful U.S. sentries heard the Reds singing snatches of Communist marching songs as they pulled an aged, creaking, Russian heavy machine gun up the steepening slope...
...Mansei!" Almost on the heels of the first wave of Reds came a U.S. counterattack. Spearheaded by five tanks and two M-8 reconnaissance cars, truckloads of G.I.s from the 19th Infantry Regiment roared through the pass and down into the valley below. Heavy Communist fire damaged the two recon cars and three tanks. The G.I.s, supported by covering fire from the pass, spilled out of their trucks, began fighting a day-long melee in the valley and on the crests of the surrounding hills...
...Philippines last week offered to send immediately to Korea, for service under the U.N. flag, a regiment of 5,000 combat infantry. That made No. 9 on the list of U.N. members who had sent or offered to send troops. The other eight: the U.S., Britain, Nationalist China, Siam, Australia, Turkey, New Zealand, Canada...