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...nation reacted with shock, outrage and bewilderment. The Pentagon was deluged with telegrams from agonized relatives. President Truman said that the report disclosed the most uncivilized thing that has happened in the last century-if it was true. The cease-fire talks had reached a critical stage, and the U.S. negotiators were beginning to come under some criticism for apparent stalling after the Communists had made major concessions. Critics and Communists promptly seized on the atrocity report as another attempt to delay negotiations...
...from Washington, Far Eastern Commander Matt Ridgway hastily dispatched two officers to Pusan to check Hanley's facts. The officers found that Hanley had thrown together reports from Korean refugees, captured enemy soldiers and hearsay to get his totals. He had only a handful of documented cases (the Pentagon, which eventually gets all such atrocity reports, had been able to establish only about...
...Pentagon in an uproar. There was an old and cherished custom that an admiral or general could retire to pasture after completing his tour as a top dog of his service, even though he was under the age for compulsory retirement...
...Pentagon argued, would also keep around a lot of dead wood-colonels and brigadier generals with no chance of advancement...
Last week Congress' action was getting results. The Pentagon reported that "many officers who had applied for retirements have now withdrawn their applications...