Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...encouraging, but the western sector seemed to be the crucial arena. It was there, in front of the Yalu power sites, that the enemy had the bulk of his men and his strongest preparations for defense. General MacArthur would have to get his western offensive rolling again quickly to make good on the bold words of his opening-day communiqué. MacArthur ordered the marines at Changjin reservoir to strike west toward the flank of the rampaging Chinese. The marines moved three miles west, then stalled against stubborn resistance...
Worried Ernest Davies promptly hurried to the office of Socialist Boss Herbert Morrison for advice. On one of his many telephones Morrison got through to Bevin and warned him that the rebels meant to be tough. Truculent at first, Bevin finally agreed that Davies might make any concessions that good judgment dictated...
...believes Britons are fast coming to his way of thinking, citing answers to a recent Gallup poll question: "If you were free to do so, would you like to go and settle in another country?" Some 35% said yes, 60% said no, 5% "don't know." This would make it seem that Whittle nearly has his willing 20 million, but as for persuading whole communities and industries to move, an essential feature of his plan, Whittle's jet-powered imagination is obviously soaring toward utopianism...
Among possible motives of Bulgaria's Communist government were: 1) a horde of homeless, propertyless refugees, arriving as winter began, would severely tax the strained Turkish national treasury; 2) it would rid Bulgaria of an unassimilable group, living near its strategic frontiers; 3) it would make even more docile the 600,000 Turkish Moslems who stayed behind; 4) it would provide an excellent avenue for sneaking into Turkey hundreds of Red agents...
...Turkish government demurred, insisted that the immigrants be properly screened and that Turkey get time to make arrangements to care for them...