Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...issue of the future course of the war, Reischauer said he thought U.N. forces should continue fighting, even if on a small scale, in order to preserve the appearance of combatting aggression...
...seminar, held in Germany this summer, discussed the various phases of modern student life and the problems of youth in today's world. The High Commission has ordered the large-scale printing because of the keen interest shown in the original reports by German university officials and students...
Modern technology has undermined heroism, Levin maintained. With the conscription of large-scale armies and the development of the airplane and the bomb, the individual has come to count less and less. Defending Norman Mailer's book, "The Naked and the Dead," which in no sense justified war, Levin asserted that the only real relationship between war and literature has been and should continue to be the truth...
Even more strongly, MacArthur disputed charges that his "end-the-war" offensive had been ill-advised strategically. The U.N. assaults, he maintained, had not motivated the all-out intervention of the Chinese Communist army. He made the obvious point that intervention on such a scale required elaborate preparation, and consequently must have been decreed by Mao Tse-tung's government long...
From worried U.S. industrialists who have the big job of rearming the nation, came the shocking answer: not very well. In fact, big-scale arms production has not even started. With the threat of global war deepening by the hour, the bitter truth is that the U.S. right now-after five months of a shooting war-is producing fewer weapons than it was when the Japs struck Pearl Harbor...