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...throwing his schedule out of kilter and forcing Host Dwight Eisenhower to wait and sweat in the sweltering heat on the White House porch. Rhee's words of greeting at the airport were characteristically blunt: "If we only had a little more courage, we could have reached the Yalu . . . But some people had a little cold feet and we could not do what we were ready...
From Old Baldy to the Yalu, North Korea lies devastated by war and despondent in the grip of unchallenged Communism. Geneva proved that it is likely to stay that way. But amidst the ruins, according to the reports of neutral observers and Korean agents, a strange, unequal competition is going on between Russian and Chinese influence...
From the Danube to the Yalu, by Mark W. Clark. Lessons and recommendations for his countrymen by an American general who has fought Communism in Europe and Asia (TIME...
From the Danube to the Yalu, by Mark W. Clark. Lessons and recommendations for his countrymen by an American general who has fought Communism in Europe and Asia (TIME...
General Clark never got his way, but from his frustrating experiences with Communists in Europe and Asia has come a book that, more authoritatively than any other, shows what the U.S. was up against in Korea. Candid and clear, From the Danube to the Yalu has the added advantage of being written by a man who is no longer on active duty. Retired in 1953, Mark Clark, 58, is now president of South Carolina's historic military college, The Citadel...