Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...total mobilization, with its millions in uniform and 24-hour-a-day factories, its censorship and brownouts, its ration books and black markets. Partly, this reflected some of the lingering doubts inside Harry Truman's own Administration on the wisdom of a total commitment now to a garrison state. Partly, the apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected. On performance, not alone on words, would the U.S. be able to judge how well Harry Truman and the rest of the nation...
...would be unfair and unrepresentative. Just as much so as the statement, "Yale, according to its students of more than average insight, is a trade school for success." The Yale students concerned may have had insight a-plenty, but that quality is not to be discerned in their interviewers. Garrison McC. Ellis Chairman, Yale Dally News...
Free elections in Korea supervised by a neutral country; a hands off policy for Chinese affairs, including Formosa; foregoing German rearmament and stationing a 20 division Angle-American garrison in France and the low countries, supported by French forces of equal strength were other recommendations urged in the telegram...
Night Attack. Up in the citadel the distant sound of mortar fire awakes the garrison commander. He snaps on a flashlight, hurriedly cranks the field telephone. But the duty officer can only guess from the direction of the noise that the attack is at Tanmai, a small fort west of Moncay manned by about 40 Vietnamese soldiers. Tanmai has no radio or telephone...
...mortar explosions come faster. Should Moncay garrison send out a relief column? Impossible! With one company away on an island-clearing operation, there's only one company of Legionnaires left to hold Moncay citadel, as the Viet Minh doubtless know. Towards morning the explosions stop. The air is warm and heavy and very still. The meteorological report forecasts a typhoon...