Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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July 10, 1950, the second week of the Korean war. Said TIME: "Last week, after five years of division and bloody dissension in the Land of the Morning Calm, what remained of Korean freedom was staggering under the savage attack of a tyranny far more complete than that of the Japanese. Douglas MacArthur had said (and the U.S. people had forgotten): 'There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity...
...U.S.A., admitted that some comrades were "confused." But it briskly set them straight. The North Koreans were not conducting aggression but "a struggle of liberation." June 26 became "the date Truman ordered the invasion of Korea" and the U.S. effort became "the Wall-Street-conceived and Truman-Dulles-engineered attack on the Korean people." Every North Korean success was another town "liberated," every U.S. reverse was gloated over ("The People's Army pushed the invading forces back all along the line"). Cried the Worker: "Today, under the orders of our Southern President, U.S. planes are bombing and strafing COLORED...
Secretary of State Dean Acheson branded the petition a "propaganda trick," pointed out that more than half the population of North Korea was reported to have signed just before they launched their attack...
...West Coast. For several days last week, vehicles rolled along Route 101 from the Marines' Camp Pendleton to the Navy's station at San Diego. Forty-five-ton Pershing tanks lumbered across the beach and into LCTs. Buses disgorged men in green camouflaged uniforms who boarded attack transports...
...sucked out of position by committing all the U.S. strength in the area to the Korean battle. On the other hand, MacArthur did not intend to be pushed off the Korean peninsula and to be left with the appalling prospect of having later to mount an amphibious attack on Korea from Japan...