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...military commanders," were to "clear all but routine statements with their departments and to refrain from direct communications on military or foreign policy with newspapers, magazines, or other publicity media." Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk hurried over from the State Department, and General Omar Bradley arrived from the Pentagon. By 9:30, the documents and statements were ready and taken over to Blair House. Harry Truman looked them over and signed...
...volatile Pentagon, which had been cheerful a few weeks ago, suffered its deepest gloom since December. The black mood had nothing to do with MacArthur's dismissal; there was no lack of confidence in Ridgway or in the morale and fighting caliber of the Eighth Army. Before he was boosted into MacArthur's jobs, Ridgway had expressed confidence that the Communist offensive could be contained and beaten back. But in the light of the Red buildup which the Air Force seemed unable to smash, military Washington was beginning to wonder...
...equipped with the newest horizon-to-horizon cameras, swept a band of Manchuria more than 50 miles wide, disclosed that new enemy airfields, capable of handling bombers as well as fighters, were being constructed rapidly. A report got around that 3,000 Soviet airplanes were in the area. The Pentagon called this estimate exaggerated, but military men were gravely concerned with the prospect that the enemy might be getting set, at last, to challenge U.N. supremacy...
Help from Washington. Instead, colleges and universities are begging Washington for help in other ways. Military training units are one possibility, but the prospects are strictly limited. The Pentagon is planning only a handful of new units-25 for the Army, 62 for the Air Force, none for the Navy. Research contracts from Government and industry are another hope. To cash in on it, the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education, representing 13 Southern states, has opened an office in Washington with the sole purpose of getting contracts...
...finished their training. The public was also aware, but only vaguely, of big Russian concentrations in Manchuria and on Sakhalin island: a Russian assault on Japan might cut off the troops in Korea and touch off World War III. But these and similar grave possibilities, so real to the Pentagon, gave Americans no acute sense of clear and present danger...