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...desk before 9, to head off the seemingly inexhaustible dangers of world crisis. To the White House came the top diplomats, the military and intelligence chiefs, all bringing bits and pieces of a jigsaw puzzle of Soviet tanks churning westward through the bloody snows of satelliteland, of MIG-17s swooping southward past Mount Ararat to take up menacing new forward bases in Syria...
...were B-17s and P-40s neatly parked on Clark Field for Japanese bombers to pick off hours after Air Chief "Hap" Arnold had alerted responsible officers to the news of Pearl Harbor, and 45 minutes after air spotters had radioed reports of approaching Japanese planes? Historian Morton's best guess: fouled-up communications, command indecision. The cost: 99 planes destroyed out of a total of 277, and the offensive power of the Air Force in the Philippines crippled. Some matters Historian Morton resolves plainly and bluntly. The Philippine army, constituting more than half of MacArthur...
...uniforms of the Brown Police to become the German Red army. Equipped with Soviet tanks, Maxim heavy machine guns and other modern weapons, they were organized into combat teams and an army group: some were assigned to a fleet of 31 armed ships, others to flight training in Yak-17s Behind the "Vopos" rose the secret police, some 30,000 organized in NKVD style by a veteran (60) Red of the Spanish civil war and Moscow fraternity named Wilhelm Zaisser...
...missiles (rocket-or jet-propelled and guided by radar). Ten years ago, in World War II, the Navy itself had successfully used a pilotless plane, controlled by radio and aimed by television, in simulated attacks on a destroyer. In the same way, the Army had sent worn-out B-17s against German V-2 launching bases...
...wife of a Cardiff workingman, 41-year-old, pink-sweatered Florence Poynter, mother of two, brought cheers from 4,000 representatives at the Conservative Party's 71st annual conference at Blackpool last week. Her husband, said Mrs. Poynter, earned only ?4 17s. 2d. (about $13.50) weekly, so that she had to leave her children and go out scrubbing. She had been better off before the war when her husband had brought home only ?2 10s. By thus dramatically emphasizing the rise in the cost of living and affirming her faith in the Conservative Party, now in opposition, Mrs. Poynter...