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...priorities between one weapon and another. But in a half-speed mobilization, each procurement officer hopes that the material he wants can be taken out of the civilian sector of the economy, and the services do not get together on priorities. Last week, tired of waiting on the Pentagon, Wilson announced he would set up his own priority system for weapons. These difficulties will not disappear simply by deciding to have more guns, less butter...
...West, President Harry Truman saw the A.P. dispatch and spluttered like a pinwheel. The Pentagon fired off a demand to Tokyo for an explanation. From Washington, J.C.S. Representative Major General John E. Hull and the State Department's Deputy Undersecretary H. Freeman Matthews hustled down to Key West. After hurried conferences, a statement was issued flatly denying the A.P. report. In Korea, the Eighth Army's General James Van Fleet said that an order of his had been "misinterpreted" by subordinate commanders...
Americans booby trapped their own Korean policy last week, thanks to the blunder of an Eighth Army colonel. Charges by Colonel James Hanley that the Communists had murdered 5500 American soldiers prompted a series of fiery speeches by public figures from the President down. But subsequent statements from the Pentagon and General Ridgway revealed Hanley's figure as the composite of largely-exaggerated rumours, released at the worst possible time...
...more than four months of U.N.-Communist truce parleys in Korea, the Pentagon and the State Department looked avidly over Matt Ridgway's shoulder, but allowed the Supreme Commander free tactical management of the negotiations, so long as he stayed within broad lines of policy laid down in July. Recently, however, Washington has had a queasy feeling that Ridgway was being too stubborn, and Washington decided to intervene. Somewhere between Foggy Bottom and the thick-carpeted rookeries of Pentagonia, a plan to break the deadlock over a ceasefire line was cooked up and handed to Ridgway. Last week Ridgway...
General de Lattre de Tassigny had promised Paris and the Pentagon that he would take Hoa Binh around January 1952. After the sweeping success of his breakout offensive (TIME, Nov. 19) De Lattre last week ordered his staff to prepare an immediate attack on Hoa Binh, was told it would take "at least eight days." Said De Lattre: "Do it in four." From the battlefield, TIME Correspondent John Dowling gave this report of how it was done...