Word: yalu
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...your July 14 report of reactions in the House of Commons to Mr. Churchill's quotation of Mr. Acheson's reference to "snafu" on the vexed question of the Yalu River bombings: Churchill "rolled the unfamiliar word around for a while and it came out snayfooo...
Douglas cited the standard reasons why it would be dangerous to do anything beyond what the U.S. is doing now in Korea: "We would inevitably kill Chinese women & children by ... bombing [beyond the Yalu], and the Communists would use this fact as a powerful propaganda weapon...
Theories for Scarcity. The U.S. now dominates the North Korean air from the battlefront to the Yalu, and the enemy's MIGs are venturing across the border in much smaller numbers than a few months ago. (This month's jet-combat score: eleven MIGs destroyed, two Sabres lost). Said one U.S. airman: "Last fall we were fighting them within 50 miles of this base. It's nearly 250 miles to the Yalu, and now there's not a single Commie pilot sitting across that goddam river who doesn't know that, if he sticks...
...secret session last week and reported to be going fairly well). The Peking radio shrilled that the Pyongyang raids were "directed at Paris, London, New York and Moscow-at a new world war." Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai charged that U.N. planes had crossed the Yalu and attacked the great Manchurian air base at Antung (a possible real target in the future...
...recovered from the bad-case of personal pique over Washington's failure to warn him of the Yalu bombings. "I do not remember any occasion when a more candid and manly course has been taken by a prominent public man," he said of Acheson's explanation...