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...Their search for an answer had set off a great debate, which filled the air waves and packed the letters-to-the-editor columns. Herbert Hoover had touched it off with his Gibraltarism speech (TIME, Jan. 1), in which he said that Europe must first build its own "sure dam against the Red flood" before the U.S. gave it any more aid, and argued that Europe was not vital anyway to defending the Gibraltar of the Western Hemisphere. It was not alone the size of the match that 76-year-old Herbert Hoover struck that made the blast...
...Korea, should stiffen its hold on Formosa and the Philippines and give the Japanese independence and arms for defense. It should cut off Western European allies without another dollar or U.S. soldier until they organize and equip combat divisions "of such large numbers as would erect a sure dam against the Red flood...
...according to Wilder, the dam broke inside of Whitman, and he found his self-assurance...
Points 2 and 3 were concessions to the hopeful British view that the Chinese had invaded Korea primarily to safeguard the North Korean dams which generate hydroelectric power used by Manchurian industry and furnish light to the Manchurian industrial center of Mukden, the Russian naval base at Port Arthur and Dairen. The British view was strengthened by the fact that Chinese troops had struck hardest in the area south of the Yalu River's 480-ft. Suiho Dam, which has a capacity of 700,000 kw., two-thirds as much as massive Hoover Dam. But supporters of the British...
...week, in a report to the U.N., MacArthur was more specific. He listed six instances of anti-aircraft fire from the Manchurian side of the Yalu River on U.N. planes; the intervention of Chinese Communist combat units, totaling 7,500 troops, north of Hamhung and south of the Suiho Dam; and the information from captured Chinese Red Army men of other units in action. The Supreme Commander's clipped conclusion: "[These] are mat ters which it is incumbent upon me to bring at once to the attention of the United Nations...