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Then Douglas MacArthur turned to the crucial issue of Korea. "While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea," he said, "that decision, from a military standpoint, proved a sound one." The enemy was hurled back, and victory was complete when Red China intervened. "This created a new war and an entirely new situation . . . which called for new decisions in the diplomatic sphere." Such decisions, said MacArthur bitterly, "have not been forthcoming...
...professionally designed to support our forces committed to Korea and to bring hostilities to an end with the least possible delay and at a saving of countless American and allied lives, I have been severely criticized in lay circles, principally abroad, despite my understanding that from a military standpoint the above views have been fully shared in the past by practically every military leader concerned with the Korean campaign including our own Joint Chiefs of Staff." The Republicans rose as a man and cheered. Democrats sat in unhappy silence...
...utilize the friendly Chinese force of some 600,000 men on Formosa, if not permitted to blockade the China coast to prevent the Chinese Reds from getting succor from without, and if there were to be no hope of major reinforcements, the position of the command from the military standpoint forbade victory...
Henry W. Riecken, Jr. '39, lecturer on Psychology, after examining Cosmography, said he found some of its passages interesting from a clinical standpoint. He made it clear, however, that he had no intention of attempting a mail-order psychoanalysis...
...representing the standpoint of the movie industry, Twentieth Century Fox's president Skouras is expected to talk on the movies as art. His studio produced "All About Eve," Academy Award winner...