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...President João Café Filho is firmly and conscientiously risking his personal popularity. Earlier this month he vetoed a pay rise for 15,000 doctors who work for the federal government or institutes it sponsors. Last week, as a result, Brazil's doctors threatened a nationwide sitdown strike...
...prolonged attack [against U.N. forces] are beyond the capacity of the Red Chinese army . . . The war in Korea is costing the Chinese Reds much more than it is costing us. They cannot stand the expense . . . The enemy is having a hard time supplying himself for even a sitdown war. If we ever put on some pressure and make him fight, we give him an almost insoluble tonnage problem...
Instead of pulling smartly back to the MLR, to save casualties until they were in shape for a successful counterattack, too many of the 7th's units had tried to stand their ground, throwing in cooks and KPs and yelling for reinforcements. The long sitdown had made the Eighth Army sluggish. The battalion and company commanders were not prepared for quick emergency movement of their equipment and command posts. No corps or division command post had been moved for tactical reasons in nearly two years. Sluggishness could be seen in the movement of field pieces up to the front...
...part of state and local officers that public business is none of the public's business (TIME, May 5 et seq.). Last week North Carolina newsmen lost a round. When a vital Appropriations subcommittee, disregarding state law, denied them access to its budget hearings, capital reporters staged a sitdown in the hearing room...
Shared Battles. Since then, Commonwealth troops have shared most of the U.N. triumphs and setbacks, and the long sitdown that followed. When Britons at home think of the Korean fighting (as they rarely do), they are most likely to remember the heroic stand of the Gloucesters on the Imjin, when one battalion was almost annihilated. On less spectacular occasions, Commonwealth troops have plugged holes in a crumbling U.N. line. When things go badly they are calm, solid, effective...