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While everybody in Washington wanted to talk about MacArthur, Georgia's cagey and crusty Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, set out to pilot the controversial draft bill through the House. As usual, his performance was a lesson in skilled parliamentary maneuver. He knew that he...
Dictator Juan Peron, always at pains to keep his dirty work legal, executed a maneuver last week that gave the sanction of the law to the strangling of La Prensa. By terms of the law, the great independent newspaper was expropriated by the government.
Maneuver. For three days, the coalition used all the tricks of parliamentary procedure to get the sting into a simple Administration resolution aimed at endorsing the dispatch of whatever U.S. troops were needed to provide a "fair share" of Western Europe's defenses. Amendment after amendment was thrown in...
On his tenth visit to the Korean front, Douglas MacArthur summed up the military situation: "Our field strategy . . . a war of maneuver with the object of inflicting as heavy a punishment upon the enemy as possible ... has worked well. [But] we must not fall into the error of evaluating such...
The U.N. campaign in the Korean peninsula bore striking resemblance to the Duke of Wellington's "Peninsular Campaign" against Napoleon's armies in Spain. The Iron Duke, like Matthew Ridgway, was pitted against enemy armies of overwhelming numerical superiority, capable of getting steady overland reinforcements. Wellington's...