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...fighting sons. Major Generals Thomas F. Hickey and Albert C. Smith each has one. Lieut. Hobart R. Gay Jr. is the jet-pilot son of Major General Hobart R. Gay, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division in Korea; Captain Sam Walker is the son of the late General Walton H. Walker. Those who have lost sons in action so far: Lieut. General Thomas B. Larkin, Brigadier Generals David H. Blakelock, John Magruder and Robert W. Strong...
...question of who failed is to be found right in Foggy Bottom. There the China policy is now quietly referred to, behind hands, as "the China mistake." Most of the old Far East policymakers have been scattered to other fields. John Carter Vincent was sent to Switzerland. Walton Butterworth, who followed Vincent as head of the Far East section, was sent to Sweden. The most notable survivor among the architects of the "China mistake" is Secretary Acheson...
Lieut. General Walton Harris ("Johnnie") Walker had earned a new nickname for himself in Korea. In World War II, as one of the late George Patton's favorite corps commanders, he had become a specialist in the armored attack. In Korea he had had to turn to defensive tactics-first in the Pusan perimeter, where, with no reserves, he smartly shuttled front-line units from one crisis to another; more recently in North Korea, where he directed the pullback that saved his Eighth Army from destruction. Walker's new nickname: "Little Bulldog...
...were light and copy flowed along smoothly. But at week's end the honeymoon ended. Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea ordered NBC's Kenneth Kantor and U.P.'s Peter Webb confined to quarters for a "gross security violation" in disclosing prematurely the death of Lieut. General Walton Walker in a jeep accident (see WAR IN ASIA). Full field censorship was ordered for all press copy, and telephones used by newsmen covering Eighth Army Headquarters were removed...
Died. Lieut. General Walton Harris Walker, 61, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea; in a jeep accident; north of Seoul (see WAR IN ASIA...