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Phase One of the war had been the dismal series of retreats to a defensible beachhead line. Phase Two had been the creditable establishing and holding of the beachhead. But Phase Three-the buildup preparatory to a breakout-was moving too slowly. At the rate the manpower buildup was going last week, a general counteroffensive seemed no nearer than it had when the beachhead was first established. The enemy was still strong, still attacking, still forcing General Walker to dance to the Communist tune...
...wholesome potato, runs Dr. Salaman's argument, the underprivileged of the world succumbed to the will of the rich; the Irish in particular let their living habits fall to a standard as low as that of rooting pigs. The great blow fell in Ireland in 1845 when a dismal blight turned the entire potato crop to dust almost overnight, killing a million Irishmen and sending a million more to sow in the U.S. "The seeds of Anglophobia which, after 100 years, is still alive...
...association admitted that it might not actually drop any members who decided to take jobs anyway. "But the rest of us," said an association spokesman, "will feel they are doing a dismal thing...
...there its temper not only boiled up but boiled over. Items: ¶ In Detroit, the common council forbade sidewalk news vendors to sell "subversive literature," gave the commissioner of police the job of determining what was subversive. The Detroit Newspaper Guild protested that they disliked Commie publications ("They are dismal examples of journalism. They have shown a constant disregard for the truth.") but didn't believe in suppressing them. The council decided to think it over for a week. ¶ In Birmingham, Ala., big, blustery Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, who had been arresting Communists on charges of vagrancy...
...however much retreats and holding actions may go against his grain. If ordered to hold, he will stand and fight to the last man, including Walton Walker. He is, in every sense of the phrase, an "old pro"-which is just what the U.S. needs at this dismal point in Korea...