Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...four destroyers under Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, commander of U.S. Far Eastern naval forces, who began bombardment of Communist amphibious forces which had landed on South Korea's east coast. Assigned to Joy's command, with the mission of protecting Formosa against possible Chinese Communist attack, was the Seventh (Asiatic) Fleet under Vice Admiral Arthur Struble. At Struble's disposal were the carrier Valley Forge, one heavy cruiser, six destroyers and four submarines...
...their long-suffering nation, Koreans told each other, there was beginning an era more splendid than any they had known before. 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...
...Vermont. No previous council meeting, even those that faced the crises over Iran and Palestine, had been so important. North Korea had rejected the U.N. cease-fire order. For the first time in its five faltering years, U.N. faced the issue of taking up arms to repel an armed attack...
With the calmness of a Vermont lawyer reading a brief before a judge in chambers, Austin twanged: "The armed invasion of the Republic of Korea continues. This is, in fact, an attack on the United Nations itself." He urged that "the Members of the United Nations furnish such assistance to the Republic of Korea as may be necessary to repel the armed attack and to restore international peace and security to the area...
...Hours. "Where was our Intelligence?" roared New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges. Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, produced a secret report dated June 20 describing intense activity north of the 38th parallel. It warned that the Communists were "capable" of launching an attack at any time. But the same thing, he pointed out, was true of several other areas-Western Germany, Yugoslavia, Formosa or Indo-China. Nobody, said Hillenkoetter, could tell just when the attack itself might come, since such decisions can be made or unmade in a matter of hours...