Word: withdrew
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...Withdrew south of Seoul...
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...Withdrew from Germany...
Virginia's Harry Byrd drew an admission that U.S. authorities had long ago recognized the dangers of a North Korean invasion, but withdrew U.S. troops anyway. Acheson argued that all U.S. authorities, including the J.C.S. and MacArthur had approved the decision, and that it was taken because of a recommendation by the United Nations (which, he neglected to say, the U.S. initiated). Snapped Byrd: ". . . That doesn't make it an accurate or proper recommendation...
...General Van Fleet and his Eighth Army last week. When the battered Chinese Reds ran out of steam in the second phase of their futile spring offensive, they acted as though Van Fleet might be ceremonious and give them a breathing spell. Instead he attacked, and when the Reds withdrew, he chased them and destroyed unit after unit...