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...Indo-China, Malaya, Indonesia, the Philippines and Nationalist China, rearmament of Germany and Japan; ¶ The Korean war, which (said the report) has been an "Operation Killer" from the beginning...
...Lattre wasted no time. With his government's promise of 15,000 picked reinforcements soon to come, he boarded his Constellation for Indo-China. As he flew over India, the news from IndoChina was bad: the Reds had come close enough to cut the Haiphong water supply. De Lattre ordered his pilot to fly direct to Haiphong, but the same crachin mist which was giving cover to the Communists prevented the big Constellation from landing. De Lattre landed at Saigon, rode a light plane back to Haiphong, took charge of the battle...
Wight, who has just returned from two years in Malaya, will speak about Britain's commitments in the Far East and their importance to the Western Powers. Other topics to be discussed include Korea, Malaya, the importance of Indo-China in the general Allied defense plan, and integration and liaison with other Allied forces...
...time the Empire Marshal had finished her Indo-China stint, the Korean war had begun. Her charterers, London ship brokers P. B. Pandelis Co., signed her up with the U.S. Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service. The Empire Marshal began ferrying soldiers from Japan to Korea. The crew got to know and like their passengers. The morning after the first assault landings at Inchon the Empire Marshal went in with tanks. When the Red Chinese began to close in on Hungnam and Wonsan last December, the Empire Marshal was waiting offshore to evacuate U.S. and British troops. Master...
...Empire Marshal had been ordered to Dairen to load soybeans for England. A crew member yelled, "That's Red China!" Unanimously, the 58 crewmen-four Poles, three expatriate Chinese, one German, 50 Scots and Englishmen-applied the lesson they had learned from the Communists on the way to Indo-China. They voted not to take the ship to any Communist port. Explained Chief Steward Vincent Rottgardt: "We decided on principle. We've been on the anti-Communist side all along...