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...troop transports...
...Acheson Plan of calling the General Assembly to action in an emergency appears sound. It will bypass the Soviet veto in the Security Council, and thus make the U.N. effective in handling the really important international problems. But it is obvious that troop support for the U. N. will have to come largely from the big powers, no matter how many nations are involved in U. N. Police actions...
...movie starts in a Northern prisoner-of-war camp where a Union captain (Cornel Wilde) is recruiting captured Confederate cavalrymen to serve against the Indians on the Western frontier. A Southern colonel (Joseph Cotten) and the remnants of his troop sign up. Arriving at the frontier post of Fort Thorn, they not only find themselves surrounded by Kiowas and Apaches, but are tempted to treason by undercover Confederate agents. They are also badgered by the fort's Rebel-hating commanding officer (Jeff Chandler), who was disabled at Bull Run, lost his brother at Chancellorsville, and has a lively interest...
...miles more to Ipchong, and there the column ran almost smack into two troop-laden Red trucks. The enemy fled, and Baker used the gas from their vehicles to refuel his own. At Chonan, another eight miles, enemy soldiers began to appear on both sides of the road. Baker's column kept rolling, fired ahead and to its flanks as it rolled. One of Baker's gunners kept score on its hits in a little notebook: "9:05 p.m.-two more; two more; seven more; 9:35 p.m.-30 Reds, two carts; two more; two mule carts full...
...torpedoed its big bid for supremacy in the transatlantic luxury liner trade last week. By order of the Defense Department, the U.S. Lines' supership United States, now building in Newport News, Va., will be completed as a troop transport...