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Caught In the Glare. Getting to the front, General Walker made his business short and to the point. On a long, flat stretch of road (used at the moment as an improvised landing strip for liaison planes), he went over the situation with one of his division commanders. Then he started visiting colonels and majors. Sometimes, gesturing at map positions with a stubby forefinger, he made crisp suggestions for trimming lines or improving positions. Sometimes he silently absorbed information, left without a word...
...problems of trying to keep a balanced military force on hand, of acting as liaison between the J.C.S. and the White House, were the thankless responsibilities of Omar Bradley...
...State Department career man of modest reputation. The senior military representative was an Army lieutenant colonel assisted by a staff of three other officers and barely enough enlisted men to answer phones, drive staff cars. Not one of the military men had the rank or authority to provide the liaison so urgently required with the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
...artillery, to Korea by sea. One battalion of the 24th was flown to Pusan and shipped to the Kum River front by rail. Major General William F. Dean, the 24th's commander, was appointed commanding general of all U.S. forces in Korea, with Church as his senior GHQ liaison officer. Meanwhile four enemy columns were reported moving south, one of them outflanking Suwon. The U.S. troops in the field deployed to meet them. One unit got its first taste of combat when five Yaks strafed them savagely, for 25 minutes, with rockets and machine guns...
...past four years, Reyes and Fonacier have been fighting through the courts the question of who is supreme, and, incidentally, whether the Aglipayans will continue their uncomfortable liaison with Unitarianism or confirm an alliance with the Episcopal Church arranged in 1947. Though Fonacier plans to appeal, the decision of the court in favor of Reyes seems to have placed the 320 churches and 1,000 chapels of the Aglipayan Church within the Episcopalian fold...