Word: manchuria
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...polls have shown, wrote Gallup in this week's New York Times Magazine, that a third of American adults do not know that Dean Acheson is Secretary of State. In one series of questions (Where is Manchuria? Formosa? What is the 38th parallel? The Atlantic pact? Who is Chiang Kaishek? Tito?), almost a fifth of the people asked couldn't answer a single one. Most of them, said he, had exaggerated ideas of the power of A-bombs, thought a few could erase a whole nation, and thus had no idea of the cost...
...face of the week's tally, and the fact that the Reds now have available in Manchuria some 600 jets-most of them presumably MIGs-the U.N. would have to make available more than the single wing (normal complement. 75 planes) of Sabre jets now flying against the Reds, or face the sort of losses which still make World War II airmen shudder at the name of Schweinfurt...
...walks 20 blocks to the campus of his university, where he works at his experimental station. There are still snow projects that he wants to complete. First on the list: to check the survey possibilities on the headwaters of the Yalu River between North Korea and Communist Manchuria...
...fanciful. It accuses the U.S. of wrecking the peace talks (broken off by the Reds on Aug. 23); it claims to have uncovered a U.N. plan for amphibious landings on both coasts of North Korea; it avers that a captured Mustang pilot had in his possession target maps of Manchuria, which proves that alleged U.N. invasions of "Chinese air space" were planned and not accidental...
...feels that the MacArthur projects would involve us in a full-scale war, in China--"just what the Russians want." Only if the tempo of the air war steps up in Korea and the Chinese Communists start using a great many more planes would we be justified in bombing Manchuria, he said...