Word: lines
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Harry Truman had laid the issue squarely on the line at Thursday's Cabinet session. Fresh from a long chance to do his own thinking at Key West, Fla., he had demanded a clear-cut affirmative Asia policy on his desk before Congress reconvened Jan. 3, proposed that the Cabinet officers produce just such a policy at the meeting of the National Security Council this week. When Louis Johnson pleaded for a little more time, the President said nothing doing. Moreover, he added, he would preside at the meeting himself...
...Joint Chiefs recommended the dispatch of a small military mission, possibly no more than 20 officers, along the line of Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet's mission to Greece. Some time early in the year the Navy would probably dispatch an aircraft carrier into Western Pacific waters. Whether this would be enough to repel the expected all-out assault by the Communists next spring was up to the Nationalists themselves. What was more important, the U.S. was finally drawing a line in Asia, along which it would say to the spreading Communists: this far and no further...