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...widely taken for granted that a breakout would be made in a matter of weeks. "We'll never even find a North Korean soldier," said a colonel. "They'll all take off their uniforms and become refugees." In Tokyo, one of General MacArthur's comfortable spokesmen said that the war might, just possibly, be won by Thanksgiving...
Like Civil War Prints. General Walker appeared in his fast-moving, heavily armed, two-jeep convoy and ordered the attack speeded up. A U.S. night attack-hitherto a North Korean specialty-helped. As enemy frontal resistance lessened, headquarters spokesmen in Tokyo talked confidently of U.S. "pursuit," of an enemy "rout." This was an exaggeration. The forward speed of the U.S. drive was painfully slow and enemy pockets on the flanks had to be rooted out laboriously...
Central Executive Committee and replaced it with a "Central Reform Committee." Kuomintang spokesmen carefully explained that this move finally ended the power of the "CC clique," named for the Brothers Chen Li-fu and Chen Kuo-fu. Many U.S. observers have blamed the CC group for much of the inefficiency of Chiang's regime. Key figure in the reform drive was Formosa's able governor K. C. Wu, former mayor of Chungking and of Shanghai. Said Wu recently: "I am determined to eradicate corruption [and] to make the island as secure internally as the military men are going...
Wanted: Six Divisions. On a day when Pentagon spokesmen in Washington described the Korean situation as "not serious," the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, who was in the field, described it as not only serious but "desperate." On good flying days, U.S. and Australian fighter planes harried the enemy armor and communications, but in the rainy monsoon season, good flying days are too few. In spite of continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order...
...maximum distribution of official American statements that were bound to undermine the Formosans' confidence in their government. On more than one occasion, Formosa's Nationalists have sharply and justifiably reminded the puny U.S. representation here that the statements of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and other Washington spokesmen constituted a direct attack on a government which was, after all, host to the very Americans in charge of disseminating these statements throughout Formosa...