Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Withdraw." Acheson argued: a statement on U.S. policy in the Pacific was beyond MacArthur's authority, and furthermore MacArthur was full of hot air. The U.S. had not held Formosa during World War II, Acheson argued,* and the U.S. had not been forced then to fall back on the Golden Gate. But primarily, Acheson deplored the timing. At that very moment, he reminded the group, the State Department was trying to get the United Nations, despite Malik, to adopt the neutralizing of Formosa as U.N.'s own formal policy. Warren Austin appeared to be making some progress along...
...Should Formosa fall into the hands of a hostile power, [it] would again be fully exploited as the means to breach and neutralize our Western Pacific defense system, and mount a war of conquest against the free nations of the Pacific basin...
...they could go home and see to their political fences. On the agenda and still to be voted: the new defense appropriations, wage, price and production control bill, being written and rewritten by another little group of perspiring Senators and Representatives in joint committee; a tax bill, which will fall far short of meeting the new expenditures; a universal military-training bill; a bill to clamp down on free-running Communists in the once free & easy...
...postponed the fall premiere of the TV version of The Aldrich Family, because it had received a lot of protests against one member of the cast, Actress Jean Muir. She was identified as a leftie in a directory published by Counterattack. Rejoined Actress Muir: "It's strange . . . especially since I consider Communism one of the most vicious things in the country today." The sponsor, General Foods, said it was making no judgment on the charges, but fired her as "a controversial personality...
...Army. He tried to make West Point, but couldn't get a congressional appointment. So at Ohio State* he began an alternate route to flying. He busied himself in R.O.T.C., graduated (in 1928) to a National Guard summer camp with a reserve commission. In the fall he began training as a flying cadet at California's March Field...