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...because of overwhelming odds." ¶ "Try to promote democracy, land reform and an increase in production and living standards in all non-Communist countries, especially those threatened by Communist aggression." ¶ Stand by to help with air and naval forces if the Communists strike in Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula or the Near East. Get Britain and France to make the preponderant contributions of land forces for those areas "to compensate for their relative failure to help in the Korean struggle." ¶ Take all the allies to be found, including Tito, Franco and Chiang Kaishek. "They are not Democrats...
...possibilities but present-day facts. Its cities gutted, its land scorched, its people uprooted, Korea had ceased to exist as a nation, had become a monument to the ravages of war. By the most optimistic speculation, U.N. forces would be able to hold only a corner of the shattered peninsula...
...Consider giving aid to Franco Spain and perhaps provide some land troops, sea and air forces to defend the Malay Peninsula, the Suez Canal and North Africa...
...General Assembly decided that the only expedient course was to give South Korea over to a Korean government, duly elected under the aegis of the U.N. The Department of the Army was very anxious to get the last the U.S. occupation troops (about 8,000 men) out of the peninsula. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall kept urging State to give him the signal. Acheson gave the signal and by June 1949 the troops were withdrawn...
Instead of withdrawing to Position Charlie-twin perimeters around Seoul and Pusan (TIME, Dec. 25)-Douglas MacArthur made a bolder decision: hold a line across the Korean peninsula, just below the 38th parallel. Since the line was about 150 miles long, it was not continuous but a series of strong points, with R.O.K. divisions apparently stationed on the right flank. In case of a cave-in on the right flank, the line could be pulled back around Seoul to form a semicircle with both flanks anchored on the Yellow...