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Strategic Initiative. This plan is not necessarily an "expansion" or "extension" of the U.S. armed commitment in Asia. It can be just the opposite. Holding the war to the narrow limits of the Korean peninsula has strained U.S. naval and strategic air power by giving it a task for which it was not designed. Last week the U.S.A.F.'s Major General Roger M. Ramey, operations, chief of the Air Force general staff, said: "It is the Yalu River which has forced upon [us] an air war that is predominantly tactical. Less than 3% of the entire Far East...
...Whatever the Communists do, the U.S. will not be drawn into a resumption of the struggle on the Korean peninsula, which is not a good place for the U.S. to fight. Therefore the U.S. will be able to reduce greatly its present forces in Korea...
...other side of the peninsula, up north, the Chinese Reds had been doing some overwater work of their own. The U.S. Navy, after sitting on the details for four days, told how the Chinese had captured three small islands off the mouth of the Yalu. The islands had been occupied last spring by South Korean marines, and the enemy could guess that they were being used as radar and weather stations, and might become springboards for guerrilla activity against the mainland...
...step was taken by the RFC. It lent $57 million, its biggest loan since World War II, to the White Pine Copper Co., a subsidiary of Boston's Copper Range Co. The money will be used to develop its holdings in the Upper Michigan peninsula,* which are estimated to have reserves of 309,660,000 tons of ore and a potential copper output of 35,000 tons a year. Said Copper Range President Morris LaCroix, who has been after an RFC loan for 13 months: "Now this great national asset will be put to work...
...Russian military boots.
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