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...question was and is: Who is right about Far Eastern policy, MacArthur or the Administration? The question itself pointed the true poles of the argument, MacArthur and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. It was Secretary Acheson's view which prevailed with the President: do nothing to widen the war; let the Communists keep the initiative. The General MacArthur view-a limited extension of the war against China, a full recognition of the proposition that Communism was already making its big bid for world domination in Asia-had not yet been heard in full (see page...
Under the Truman principle, General Legion should be fired for trying to widen or spread the war. It would be moral for American boys to die on the brown hills of Anatolia but immoral to help anti-Communist Greeks fight the same enemy on the brown plain of Thrace...
...band of them in their kayaks, he says, would form a circle about the sleeping otter, and shout and beat the water with their paddles. The otter would awake, dive under, and the Indians would widen the circle. When the animal reappeared, they shouted again, under went the otter, and the Indians closed in once more...
...cries and counter-cries, conferences, viewings-with-alarm and fevered gesticulation all through the week. But Big Labor stubbornly stood fast. Its chief target, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, remained firm. Amid the noise and confusion, the rift over the administration of national mobilization seemed, if anything, to widen...
...inter-House Social Committee is factually correct in its first and second objections, although the rift between Leverett and the other six Houses did not widen sufficiently to come to public notice until two weeks ago. On the main points of its stand, however, the CRIMSON still feels that it is correct...