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...reflected in the diminishing lines of volunteer blood donors. It was also shown by the apathy of Congress. The Senate obviously felt that it could spend three months splitting hairs over the troops-to-Europe bill; in the House a coalition of Representatives meanwhile was trying to gut the Pentagon's long-range manpower bill...
...hope for a solution in Korea was short-lived; though MacArthur's statement made perfect and obvious military sense, it had not been cleared with Washington. State Department planners, still publicly uncommitted to any plan to bring peace to Korea, conferred with Pentagon planners and finally assembled themselves into an official position. Such matters, it was stated, were even now the subject of delicate negotiations with U.S. allies (negotiations are always said to be delicate). "The political issues," the Washington statement said, "are being dealt with in the United Nations." From Peking came nothing but cold and utter silence...
...inadequacies of fighting men in other outfits. Unlike most, Chaplain Sporrer, a Roman Catholic priest, got his accusations into print in an unsigned article (title: "The Shame and Glory of Korea") in the California newsmagazine Fortnight. Last week copies of Fortnight began popping up all over the Pentagon; most of them were being exultantly waved by officers of the U.S. Marine Corps...
...produce another 20,000 fighting men by hiring civilians to take over clerical and quartermaster jobs in Army camps, the equivalent of 20,000 more when Congress extends the service of draftees. Out of the total of 60,000 men released from rear-area jobs and the training pipeline, Pentagon planners hope to get two extra fighting divisions, bringing the Army's combat strength to 20 divisions, plus 18 regimental combat teams. Counting the hundreds of separate battalions (antiaircraft, field artillery, signal, engineer), the Army expects by next fall to have 800,000 of its 1,300,000 soldiers...
...Pentagon estimated the proportion of Communist-to-U.N. casualties for the last six weeks at 20 to i. Said the Eighth Army's Matt Ridgway: "The allied ground, sea, and air forces have let a lot of air out of the inflated balloon of the Chinese military establishments. Meanwhile, in the degree to which we deflate her military reputation, we influence the thinking of millions & millions of people in Asia. Eventually it must react on the political actions of their government. This would be of tremendous importance...