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Watch on the Rhine...
...Soviet-held East Germany and Czechoslovakia, forced back the British ist Royal Dragoons, Algerian troops from the French zone, and miscellaneous U.S. forces including regiments hastily summoned from Austria and Trieste. French, British and American planes whined overhead. Even the U.S. Navy joined in, with small craft on the Rhine. After retreating, the defenders were scheduled to "regroup" and then wage a "victorious counterattack...
...Before that can be done, American divisions must come over here to strengthen the Western German feeling of security. How can you give people a purpose when they know that if the Soviets attack, they'll be on the Rhine in no time? Even if everyone took up a knife or club, there would be no stopping them. The people have to know there is at least a chance...
...goodbye to Father Rhine...
Last week Chaplain Chaphe, a veteran of World War II fighting on the Rhine, was in blue pajamas in a Tokyo hospital. He is one of the 70-odd ministers, priests and rabbis now serving with the Army* in Korea, of whom two have already been reported missing or killed in action. Back from a five days' inspection tour of the front, Colonel Ivan L. Bennett, Chief of Chaplains in the Far East Command, summed up the mission of the 175-year-old corps in one of the most difficult campaigns to which it has ministered...