Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...people realize the expertness required of gunners firing over open sights [i.e., at point-blank range] against oncoming tanks and with a gun which is not designed for antitank work. The shot is not so easy as it sounds; only veteran gunners will remain calm enough to make the shot count, and even they have to have a bit of luck...
...North American Mustangs and F-80 Lockheed jets. The jets, forced by bad weather to operate at low levels from bases some 350 miles away in Japan, could carry only enough fuel to stay over their targets for about 15 minutes. The FSI, with its longer range, could make the Japan-to-Korea hop and still have enough fuel to stay over the target for about 45 minutes before returning to its base. But, said one Air Force officer grimly: "If one Russian jet appears, the F-51s are going to go back home...
THIS capital teems with testaments to the tragic miscalculations and near-fatal results of U.S. policy toward the Chinese Nationalists and Formosa. The visible, jarring fact is that the U.S. has created a situation which now makes it well-nigh impossible to sustain any effective position whatever on and toward Formosa. If the miscalculations of the State Department are retrieved, it will be only because Formosa's Nationalists, in their extremity, are able and willing to make retrieval possible...
...dispel at least part of the heavy fog surrounding President Truman's statement on Formosa. Said Shen in a statement to the Chinese press: "I believe the U.S. has no territorial ambitions on Formosa." It was a statement that any local U.S. spokesman might have been expected to make, but of course none did. Any local U.S. diplomat who said anything reassuring to the Chinese government would have expected to lose...
...Republican Foreign Affairs Advisor John Foster Dulles visited Tokyo. Douglas MacArthur, who had never wavered in the opinion that Formosa must be defended, armed them with eloquent and specific facts to be taken back to Washington. The Kremlin, which knew MacArthur's position and his ability to make compelling sense of it, correctly divined that Formosa policy was going to be reconsidered in Washington; better be careful...