Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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From Paris: It is the quality of U.S. leadership, not basic U.S. military strength, that has gone on trial in Europe's eyes since the Korean defeat. With the exception of the Gaullists of France, non-Communist Europeans generally have found MacArthur guilty of gambling the greater part of U.S. ground strength on his private political hunch that the Chinese Communists would not strike. Now they wonder whether the U.S. plans to involve itself still deeper against the Chinese on a hunch that Russia will not honor its mutual defense treaty with China. They wonder whether U.S. industrial capacity...
...broken Eighth Army rolled south, with vehicle columns bumper-to-bumper on the roads and a million refugees alongside. Trucks and jeeps that broke down were not repaired -they were shoved off the road and burned. Said a reconnaissance pilot, looking down on the dreary spectacle of U.S. defeat and retreat: "This hurts. It hurts where I can't scratch...
...Anything, Anywhere." What had happened in northeast Korea was proof that even in disaster and defeat the most significant element of U.S. power was mobility. In the amphibious campaigns of World War II the U.S. had developed with stunning success the techniques of transporting power by sea. Those techniques were by no means obsolete, but they were faced with a formidable new obstacle. Amphibious landings on the World War II model required vast supply dumps in ports or beachheads which would present an irresistible target to an enemy with the atomic bomb. Said General Omar Bradley, not long...
...Long Day's Dying, by Frederick Buechner, a 23-year-old disciple of Henry James. There was nothing precious about young (24) John Hawkes's The Cannibal, a sometimes powerful experimental novel that tried to capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize of $10,000 went to Debby, Max Steele's sentimental first novel about a bemused little woman with a big heart and a feeble mind. A shirt manufacturer from Iowa, Richard Bissell, wrote A Stretch on the River, a first novel about Mississippi River boatmen...
...sinker; General Walter Bedell Smith's saga of ambassadorial frustration, My Three Years in Moscow; General Frank Howley's account of day-to-day business with the Russians, Berlin Command; Vladimir Petrov's My Retreat from Russia; ex-Leftist James Burnham's The Coming Defeat of Communism, which blueprinted a strategy for Western victory with the brilliant assurance of a man who could say "I was wrong" or "I told you so" with equal blandness. In a time when treason and charges of treason were becoming commonplace, Alistair Cooke's report on the Hiss-Chambers...