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From every standpoint, bicycles appear to be the vehicles of the future...
...times, recalled the effectiveness of the Marshall Plan and warned them that the hungry fall easy prey to Communism. "We need friends in this world today as we never needed them before," he said. "I am for ... this bill because I think it will help us from a selfish standpoint; if for no other reason, I would be ... for passage...
...Kenneth Wherry had pointedly called it "Truman's war," and Pennsylvania's Ed Martin had declared that the U.S. people "have no confidence in the hasty midnight decision which ordered our soldiers into the so-called police action in Korea." MacArthur said: "That decision, from a military standpoint, proved a sound...
MacArthur: "The position of the command from the military standpoint forbade victory...
...qualification in MacArthur's speech on which the J.C.S. is likely to base its explanations to Congress is the phrase "from a military standpoint." The J.C.S. like MacArthur saw no military end to the Korean war and its steady casualties unless the U.N. command took the four steps outlined by MacArthur. But the Joint Chiefs, like MacArthur, also realized that other factors were involved e.g.: Would Russia come in? Would U.N. allies support the U.S.? As there were political estimates involved, the Joint