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...lost three Sabres to the Red jets' cannon, but downed twelve MIGs, damaged 14 more. The U.N.'s slower tactical planes had the usual good hunting against ground targets, but paid for it heavily. Three F-84s, four F-80s, four F-51s, a B-26 light bomber and a Corsair were lost to the enemy's sharpshooting flak crews. In number of U.N. planes lost-16 in all-it was the worst week...
...their visit: to inspect Spanish port facilities. The Sixth Fleet has no real home in the Mediterranean. It wanders from Gibraltar to Suez, usually refueling at sea. U.S. admirals are dissatisfied with their allies' bases: Naples, the fleet's present headquarters, is too close to Russian bomber bases in the Balkans; Gibraltar and Malta are too small and too crowded...
...exhibits surprising ignorance when he says: ". . . It is very doubtful whether the Russians are capable of conversion, even if we could reach their ears." Oksana Kasenkina, former Soviet schoolteacher, jumped to freedom from the third floor window of the Soviet consulate in New York, Lieut. Peter Pirogov flew his bomber from Soviet Ukraine to the U.S. zone in Germany to seek freedom ... In Mr. Smith's own England lives former Red Air Force Colonel Grigory Tokaev, who also escaped . . . These are only a few of many thousands who have been converted. Half a million of Russian displaced persons preferred...
Libya's attraction for the U.S., Britain and France is chiefly strategic. Britain and France will be allowed to keep garrisons in Libya, and the U.S. its big Wheelus Field bomber base near Tripoli. But Libya's new leaders have shown that they do not want to be bottle-fed forever. "So far, they have made encouraging progress because they've asked for advice as well as aid," says a Western diplomat...
...than when he was lambasting Clement Attlee's defense plans: "I cannot feel that the danger of war is so great today as it was during the Berlin blockade of 1948." He also professed to be concerned, as Bevan is, by the "great and ever-growing U.S. atomic bomber base in East Anglia." U.S. airmen occupy 13 major airfields in Britain. Five of them, in East Anglia, are equipped to service strategic bombers. Churchill implied that by providing British bases for U.S. bombers, the Labor government had placed Britain in the forefront of any future war between East...