Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Time to Be Primitive. Douglas wanted the U.S. to accept Chiang Kai-shek's offer to send 33,000 soldiers of his Formosa army to Korea. Quoting an old soldiers' saying, Douglas added: "'He's an s.o.b., but he's our s.o.b.' Sometimes things get as primitive as that and if you wait until you have perfect allies . . . you will be very lonely...
...gonna get out of here," said Lieut. Colonel Raymond L. Murray, commander of the 5th Marine Regiment. "Any officer who doesn't think so will kindly go lame and be evacuated, but I don't expect any bites for that offer." There were no bites...
Mulvihill also stated he would ask an increase for Yard police, a unit paid by the week and not covered by the present offer. Other H.U.E.R.A. units are the maids and janitors; maids will now receive 87 cents an hour, and janitors...
While the Seventh Fleet steamed toward the Formosa Straits, Washington ordered Chiang Kai-shek to stop his air and water raids which were playing havoc with Communist shipping. Later, it brusquely turned down Chiang's offer to send 33,000 troops to Korea, where they might have come in handy last week. Washington's policy was directed by the fear that any action strengthening Chiang would bring the Chinese Communists into the Korean war and by the belief that appeasing Mao would keep them...
Purpose of the new overall body is to pool the best ideas and techniques each group has to offer, and to confront the world with an immensely more powerful united voice. The combination will also save money. By 1952 the Council's budget is expected to amount to less than the previous combined budgets of the constituent agencies...