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...essential," said Douglas Mac-Arthur in a report last week to U.N., "to act speedily ... It is my sincere hope that the member nations . . . will without delay build up the strength of our ground forces [in Korea...
Last week, after the Herald Tribune had added its protests to those of Correspondent Higgins, General Douglas Mac-Arthur reversed Walker's ruling. To the Herald Tribune, MacArthur sent a soothing telegram: "Ban on women correspondents in Korea has been lifted. Marguerite Higgins is held in highest professional esteem by everyone...
...There, eh Ned?" In Suwon Mac-Arthur was met by Syngman Rhee, President of the Korean Republic. Rhee, too. had come to Suwon by air; his light observation plane had eluded a North Korean fighter only by hedgehopping...
Hope in Balance. But the Communist mood of triumph was premature. Slowly, the anxiously watching world saw sign after sign that there was still plenty of fight left in the South Koreans-and in the U.S. First, General Mac Arthur's Far Eastern headquarters in Tokyo called reports that Seoul had fallen a result of "war hysteria," announced that only "isolated forays" of the enemy had reached the suburbs of the South Korean capital. Then came encouraging reports that the Southern army had rallied, had hurled a furious counterattack at the invaders and turned them back from Seoul. Several...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Mac lean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...