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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Dragging Feet. On paper, the nations of non-Communist Europe could overmatch the basic resources of Communist Europe. On each side of the Iron Curtain live about 250 million people. The Europeans to the west of the Curtain possess greatly superior technical know-how and industrial capacity. They can, for instance, make 50 million tons of steel a year against the 28 million-ton capacity of Russia and its satellites. Yet if West Germany's 50 million people and 15 million-ton steel capacity should pass into Red control, preponderance would pass to the Reds. Even with the German...
...journalism-school graduates were not all they should be, Editor Young wanted to know, were the liberal-arts graduates better? Most editors said that they did not care what sort of a degree a young man had. The best training was "a broad basic education with plenty of accent on literature, economics and history...
Oxcarts & Women. The Korean Red army fights and travels light. For basic rations, each soldier gets a packet of rice, seaweed, biscuits, sugar, salt, and two or three cigarettes. The Reds supplement this by foraging. Like the Russian army, they live off the land, transport their supplies on everything from trucks and new Russian jeeps, to oxcarts and bundles carried on the backs of old women...
...fires (a la Korea) which might have to be quenched one by one. They knew that Britain had kept order along the coasts of the world by flying the Union Jack and dispatching naval power when that symbol of order was flouted. This was why Radford & Co. in their basic philosophy were closer than their Army or Air Force colleagues to the subtle interaction of prestige, politics and physical force. The Korean war is a weirdly pertinent example of the warning that Radford & Co. were trying to give the U.S. For their case, it was unfortunate that in their zest...
When a government is established, Fairbank and Reischauer stated, the Koreans will need much economic help. With the U.N.'s resources in back of them, however, the Koreans should be able to rebuild their communications and some basic industry pretty quickly, Fairbank feels...