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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...view of misconceptions currently being voiced concerning the relationship of Formosa to our strategic potential in the Pacific, I believe it in the public interest to avail myself of this opportunity to state my views thereon ... Prior [to the past war] the Western strategic frontier of the U.S. lay on the littoral line of the Americas, with an exposed island salient extending out through Hawaii, Midway and Guam to the Philippines. That salient was not an outpost of strength, but an avenue of weakness along which the enemy could and did attack...
...waddled out onto the runway one day last week, the flight would take some 30 hours and its course would take it over 7,000 miles. Shortly after noon, the long, blimp-nosed craft, her six propellers glinting in the sun, climbed out westward from her Texas base, on past the sandy fringes of California, high over the glazed emptiness of the Pacific; then her navigator pointed her northward to the tip of the Aleutians. She did not have an atom bomb aboard, but she had its equivalent weight...
...official Communist New China News Agency last week railed against extensive sabotage, bribery, wastefulness and negligence, causing millions of dollars damage to the Red economy during the past year. In Manchuria alone 303 mine accidents occurred; one disaster killed 174 miners because of Stakhanovite competition that neglected safety conditions. All told, the agency reported, state properties suffered 6,100 cases of loss or damage; 30% of this was blamed on sabotage, 60% on negligence and other "malicious" factors...
...past four years the world has known that the Russians are mining uranium in Eastern Germany. Frightened workers who managed to escape from the mines into Germany's Western zones have told bits & pieces of the story. Last week
Last week German Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher, who in the past had been loudly against rearmament, came out for it "in principle," but added some whopping conditions. Chief among them: more U.S. and British troops in Germany or, as he put it, "a monumental Western military might along the Elbe...