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Freighter Breakout. The war was not the only reason for action; there was an expectation that even if the Mideast trouble should be settled, large shipments of commodities would be sent into the area by the U.S. The Government had already scheduled a vast surplus-grain program for India, was negotiating a wheat agreement with Israel and talking of shipping food-mostly wheat-to Poland. Hungary, and other rebellious Russian satellites. To transport the vast amount of commodities the Maritime Administration last week released thirty 10,000-ton wartime freighters from its reserve fleet...
Correspondent Mecklin began covering the world's wars in 1942. He made five convoy crossings of the Atlantic, reported the Sicily landings and the St.-Lò breakout from Normandy. Mecklin was captured by the Germans in September of 1944, when he was racing through France with Patton's Army. He was released after three days, spent a week with the French underground before rejoining the U.S. forces. Among his prized souvenirs is a butter knife with the initials A.H. on the handle, taken from the ruins of Hitler's Berlin bunker...
...serried march on Waterloo, it was final; like the Light Brigade at Balaclava, it was magnificent, but not war. At 0150, little more than half an hour later, the Charge of the Demi-Brigade was over, and very few men still lived. Isabelle radioed the Drench planes: "Breakout failed. We must break communications with you. We are going to blow up everything. Fini. Repeat. Fini." The C-47s were rocked by the shock waves from exploding Isabelle. "They were enormous explosions," said one pilot later, sadly. And the Red radio crowed:'"All the enemy troops who tried to break...
...held at least 30 days beyond the release date set in the armistice agreement. But last week U.S. observers on the scene believed that Thimayya had convinced his boss in New Delhi of another proposition: India cannot try to hold the prisoners beyond the deadline without risking a mass breakout and bloodshed, and India would be held responsible for it before the world. The U.S. has told Thimayya flatly that responsibility of the Indian troops for holding P.W.s in custody ceases at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 23. Thimayya, cooperative but cautious, is devising a formula that would seemingly call...
...second day, North Korean P.W.s refused to leave their compounds for the explanations, despite an Indian threat to use force. Fearing an attempt at a mass breakout, the Indians called off the proceedings...