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Hong Kong is the neutral way station, the communications center, for almost any traveler, whatever his mission, who skirts the edge of China or passes through Mao's bamboo curtain. Onto the British-held island and peninsula pour refugees from the Communist Utopia-in-reverse, agents and opportunists playing their own cautious angles; through its postage-stamp airfield and its busy railway station pass most of the diplomats who scuttle to & from Peking; from its shrewd businessmen go goods for Communist buyers; out of its newsstands and radio sets gush reams and hours of words from...
...Hero MacArthur today held General Eisenhower's assignment, he would be screaming for us to negotiate any kind of peace with Red China and pull out of the completely worthless Korean peninsula and rush every division to our really important and strategic outpost, Western Europe. But being a good soldier, Eisenhower obeys orders and stays out of party politics. All credit...
Although the Chinese still had uncommitted reserves, a U.S. officer guessed that they would not be able to attack again for three months. It was quite possible that, so long as the war was confined to the narrow Korean peninsula, the Chinese would not again attack South Korea...
Died. Field Marshal Lord William Riddell Birdwood, 85, commander of the Dardanelles Army in the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula, oldest active soldier in the British Army; in London...
...latitude of this week's fighting, the Chinese are cramped and the allied line is protected at both ends by the sea. Above the waist, where the peninsula widens out toward the 700-mile frontier line, the Chinese would have plenty of room and Van Fleet would not have enough men. If the Chinese decide to move north, the U.N. forces would be sentenced to an indefinite and costly stalemate...