Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Washington conference of NATO's defense ministers with a sense of urgency. In his briefcase was a comprehensive plan for the defense of Western Europe. A previous meeting of NATO's Military Committee had agreed on the armed forces each country would contribute and on a supreme command (TIME, Nov. 6). Equally essential in the American plan was a German contribution; Marshall wanted about ten West German divisions spread through the NATO force, in the ratio of one German to every six or seven divisions from other West European countries...
...push the "U.S. imperialists" out of Korea. So far the U.N. had treated the belligerent Peking regime with anxious forbearance, and a turn-the-other-cheek mildness. But if Communist troops and aircraft continued to cross the border, sooner or later there would be no choice for the U.N. command except to blow up the Yalu River dams and bridges, to bomb airfields and troop concentrations in Manchuria...
Last spring, Ike Eisenhower told Congress that Alaskan defenses were in no shape to meet the potentialities of war. Kepner, for all of his awareness of what his command lacks, professes not to be so gloomy. "If the enemy invades, we'll hand him quite a jolt," he says laconically...
Some of the wounded made it all the way from Korea to the eastern U.S. in four or five days. Said Colonel Kenneth A. Brewer, in command of the Tokyo General Hospital: "When wounded men are told that they are going to fly from Tokyo to near their home towns, and will see their families in two or three days, their joy does them almost as much good as all the doctors' medicine...
...Jungle Road to Tokyo, by Robert L. Eichelberger with Milton MacKaye. Combat and command decisions in the Pacific; General Eichelberger understood both (TIME...