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...statement was also a year's-end audit of U.S. books in China. Admittedly on the debit side was the failure of General Marshall's mission to break the Kuomintang-Communist deadlock. But on the credit side was the repatriation of nearly 3,000,000 Japanese troops, and a slash in U.S. troop strength from 113,000 to less than...
Last week Athens reported heavy troop movements and concentrations in Yugoslavia's Vardar Valley, north of Greece. It seemed likely that all such activity would stop before the Security Council investigators could get within gunshot. If Greece's northern neighbors should hastily sweep everything under the rug, it would be up to the investigators to lift...
...battered question of a troop census was still under discussion. Shawcross had taunted Russia's Molotov because of Russia's reluctance to include a census of home troops. Molotov taunted Sir Hartley with Britain's unwillingness to include information on armaments - all armaments. When the Russian was through, the Briton rushed to the rostrum. Cried he: "I accept the challenge! I think this is going to be a historic occasion...
Almost inextricably tangled, the troop-and-armament matter was hustled back to subcommittee. Sir Hartley tried simultaneously to save, face for Britain, and The Bomb for the U.S., by rewriting his resolution, whereupon Russia's Vishinsky accused him of welshing on his "gentleman's agreement" with Molotov. Assembly President Spaak (who happened to be the subcommittee chairman, and who has been an unpublicized tower of strength during the whole meeting) saved the day by separating the troop question from the armament question. The troop count was abandoned; the disarmament plan, thus disencumbered, was sent on to the plenary...
...Troop Figures. Secretary Byrnes, making his first appearance at this U.N. meeting, did much to clear the air. He said that the U.S. would not submit atomic information to any hastily devised agency, but would yield everything when a world control system along Mr. Baruch's lines had been set up. He also cut the ground from under Russia's agitation for a troop census by giving the figure on U.S. forces abroad: 550,000. Most of them, he added, were in occupation areas. There were 96,000 in the Philippines, only 19,000 in China. Russia...