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...attack next month, counts on the improved morale of his present forces and the increasing flow of U.S. material to hold the enemy. About June he hopes to launch a counteroffensive that will drive the Communists back across the Chinese border, put the French in a strong position to resist further attacks. He will need 1) officers and noncoms to replace those lost in combat, 2) men to train the Vietnamese army, which he plans to raise from...
...chief critics. He gave his audiences entertainment: a chorus line and a trick violinist. He raffled off door prizes and gave away free thimbles. Through it all he maintained such a beaming air of disarming good humor that Dearborn voters found him simply impossible to resist. Last week they voted to keep him in office. The vote: 16,872 to 12,732, the biggest margin he has ever rolled...
...bushes in the wheat belt. Another is to hope that the weather will not be favorable for the fungus wintering in Texas. The Department of Agriculture, after taking a horrified look at the Race 156 situation, trusts neither of these methods. It is trying to breed wheat that can resist. By growing its new varieties in winter in the Imperial Valley, it gets two generations a year, speeds up the development process...
...Middle East. As the U.S. becomes increasingly involved in the defense of Europe, it will increasingly recognize that the Middle East must be defended as if it were part of Europe. Using the present strong point, Turkey, as an anchor, it will try to build an effective will to resist Communism in Greece, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Saudi Arabia...
...actions to resist or diminish the aggressive power of world Communism are protected by an umbrella-the superiority of the anti-Communist world in atomic bombs and in the long-range ability to equip and sustain modern armies, navies and air forces. The U.S. superiority in atomic bombs is probably at least 10 to 1. The superiority of the free world over the Communist world in steel production is 4 to 1, in oil 10 to 1, in aluminum...