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...months ago, as U.N. forces swept up the Korean peninsula in the wake of a shattered North Korean army, General Douglas MacArthur summarily called on the enemy "forthwith to lay down your arms and cease hostilities." The Red reply was the massive Chinese assault from Manchuria which divided the U.N. forces and drove them south of the 38th parallel...
...town on the central front below the 38th parallel. Next day, on the front above Seoul, Uijongbu fell, also without a fight. The enemy seemed to have only one considerable force left in South Korea-perhaps 60,000 strong-guarding the two highways on the west side of the peninsula leading to Pyongyang...
...that extent, a stalemate in Korea had its advantages for the anti-Communist side. But neither Washington nor U.N. could look forward with complacency to an indefinitely divided Korea, and a danger that tied down 150,000 U.S. troops in that small peninsula...
...army in the world, short of some catastrophe I couldn't possibly foresee, that could destroy them before we could do something about it ... evacuate them or go back to a place where they were safe. For example, you could put a dozen American divisions in the Breton peninsula [in France], where they can be covered by our own sea and air power, and the Russians couldn't touch them to save their souls...
...Fight Up the Peninsula...