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Churchill's salvo at Britain's Socialists would find other targets. While the Tory leader spoke, the North Atlantic Treaty's Council of Deputies was meeting in London's Lancaster House to see how the individual defense programs of North Atlantic pact nations jibed with the overall requirements of Western European defense. The deputies realized that, even on paper, the funds, industrial production and manpower which the North Atlantic powers were prepared to contribute did not add up to the minimum requirements for Western defenses (TIME...
...instead of waiting to trap the next unit. "I was asleep when they cut loose," Shelton said, "then the next thing I knew, enemy bullets were coming into my hole." But the suddenly awakened soldiers discovered that their buddies had the situation under control. Blasts from U.S. BARs and salvo after salvo from 75-mm. recoilless rifles ripped into the advancing Reds, pinning some to the clifflike wall of the pass, hurling others into the roadside ditches. Within minutes, the first wave of the Communist attack had been shattered...
...when President Harry S. Truman rose to launch Democratic campaigning for 1950, there was a stirring salvo of applause and whistles from the multitude. The gist of his speech: that the Republican party had "insulted the intelligence of the American people" when they "dragged out the same old moth-eaten scarecrow of socialism" as an issue in the 1950 elections...
Soon Howard's men had six articles ready to go. When the State Department sent what Howard thought was a "mealymouthed" protest to Red China's Mao Tse-tung, Howard let fly with his first salvo...
...crisp and sunny, but a cold wind whipped through the marble columns of the white Arlington amphitheater, riffling the rows of flags. At 11 o'clock a can non thudded out the first salvo of the slow, rolling 19-gun salute and a flag-draped caisson moved slowly up from the Arlington gate, bearing the first U.S. Secretary of Defense to a sailor's grave...