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...last week, after nine months of training, the 43rd Division was far from being one of the Army's best. The Pentagon had set April 1 as the target date at which the 43rd would be fully trained and ready for combat. But two months more had passed and the division, even by its own reckoning, was still only about 40% combat-ready. And its morale was scraping rockbottom...
...Pentagon officers, fired with optimism (and zeal for the Truman Administration's wait-and-see policy in Korea), freely predicted that the Chinese Reds would soon be exhausted and would sue for peace. But even with exhaustion, the Reds had another choice. They could stop spilling their own blood, retire beyond the waist of Korea, around the 40th parallel, and sit there...
...Pentagon-Washington (Sun. 8:30p.m., Du Mont) is a joint effort of the network and the U.S. Department of Defense, devoted mainly to a briefing on the Korean war, with long and necessarily dated reports filed by spokesmen for the Army, Navy & Air Force. The filmed show ends with newsmen asking obviously prepared questions of Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter and getting obviously prepared answers...
...wrinkled-nose attitude toward Chiang Kai-shek increasingly awkward. The awkwardness was compounded last week when Major General Courtney Whitney told New York reporters that "all senior officers" in the Far Eastern command supported MacArthur on the use of Chiang's troops. There were still reservations in the Pentagon about the Nationalist army's effectiveness. The Army considered only 40,000 of the 400,000-man army were ready to fight, and then only under competent non-Chinese command. With U.S. training, the Army figured, the Nationalists might be ready in six or nine months for operations...
...weeks, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. collected facts from military and production records and from the Pentagon's top ground and air experts. This week he stepped to the floor of the U.S. Senate to tell what he had learned. The serious, studied words of the Senator from Massachusetts carried a jarring shock for the U.S. public: the presumption of U.S. air superiority in the great power struggle with Russia, said he, is more myth than reality...