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What should Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd have done when the Communist prisoners on Koje Island seized him? An infuriated Pentagon general said privately last week that, as soon as Dodd was in telephone communication with his successor, Brigadier General Charles Colson, he should have said: "Come in and get me. Use all the guns and force you need. If I die, the hell with it." Even if Dodd had made no such demand, the Pentagon man continued, Colson should have sent a force into the compound. Colson and Dodd would have been heroes, although Dodd might also have been...
Comes the Bull. After a three-hour telecon talk with the Pentagon, Clark moved to set things to rights. He had already fired Colson as commandant; he now repudiated Colson's concessions as having "no validity whatsoever." Clark sent a tough, Chinese-speaking combat commander, Brigadier General Haydon Lemaire Boatner, to take over on Koje, followed by the battle-seasoned 187th Airborne Regiment, 3,000 men strong...
...decision was not lightly taken. Last winter the Pentagon, knowing that Communists would argue long to prevent the loss of 100,000 men, was willing to give up the prisoners for the sake of the armistice and the return of U.N. prisoners in Communist camps. But the State Department, to its credit, sensed the deep moral implications of such a surrender, and took the issue to the President. Late in January, Harry Truman, fully briefed on the risks, made up his mind. Last week's U.S. statement was not an ultimatum (since it made no threats...
...chairman of the vital Armed Services Committee, Russell has gained a knowledge of military affairs respected throughout the Pentagon. He has been highly successful in translating from the Pentagonese for other members of the Senate. Last year, after presiding over the explosive MacArthur hearings, he won compliments from both Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur...
...wings (as the Air Force now describes them) by 1954, and Vandenberg pleaded for it in JCS meetings. The other members of the JCS balked. For one entire week last fall Vandenberg sat at his desk and glared moodily at the figures. Then one day he strode through the Pentagon's web to the closely guarded sector where the Joint Chiefs of Staff hold their regular meetings. In his quiet, earnest baritone he went over his case again & again for Chief of Staff Joe Collins of the Army, Chief of Naval Operations Bill Fechteler and for the JCS chairman...