Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Modest Claim. But since the victories in Korea, Democrats had perceptibly perked up and Republicans had lost some of their confidence. Last week G.O.P. strategists privately admitted that they had no real hope of winning control of either the House or the Senate, though they expected to make gains in each...
...wiggled through U.S. lines in Korea gave the Army an idea. Last week it began doing something about it. In the winter-stubbled fields at Ft. Benning, Ga., a special school had been established to train tough, company-sized commando groups. As a starter, the Army said it would make up four companies of parachutists, give them intensive training in amphibious assault, infiltration, use of enemy weapons, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. As the five officers and no men of each company complete their training, they will be shipped out to become an integral part of an infantry division: every division...
...enemy territory. He lost them trying to launch a small boat in the surf off the Algerian coast during his daring trip by submarine from England to meet French underground agents before the North African invasion. At other times, he served as deputy to General Dwight Eisenhower, helped make the Allied deal with French Admiral Jean Darlan, later commanded the Fifth Army in its long, bitter fight up the Italian peninsula. This week, as it must to all generals (it seems), publication day came to Four-Star General Mark Clark, now Chief of the Army Field Forces. In readable, relaxed...
...battlefield-the world -Ho's victory had a grim meaning. The bulk of France's army was already in Indo-China; more troops would have to be sent there to deal with the new threat. France was a vital link in European rearmament and France could not make its essential contribution to the defense of Europe as long as its army was tied up in Indo-China. A quick victory over Communism in Indo-China was necessary if Europe was to be made defensible...
...Washington, Defense Minister Jules Moch and Finance Minister Maurice Petsche asked the U.S. for $300 million worth of arms for Indo-China. Defense Secretary George Marshall assured Moch that the U.S. would make every effort to speed supplies to Saigon...