China Marches on Tibet
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)
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Italian Communism Takes One on the Chin
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)
By the time 1951 rolled around, the benefits of the Marshall Plan were hitting on all cylinders throughout Italy, and manufacturing had returned to it’s pre-war levels. The sweet words of Marxism that once had such alure were now falling flat. Although Red candidates had done quite well in 1946, by 1951 they attracted few voters.
Disaster at the Bay of Pigs
(Sir! Magazine, 1962)
“The fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, began ten months earlier on a hot June [1960] morning in room 125 of the plush Commodore Hotel in midtown Manhattan. It was born in the classical fashion of the cloak and dagger intrigue. Five prominent former residents of Cuba, all anti-Castro and untainted by former dictator Batista, were instructed to arrive at the Commodore separately. There they were confronted by Roy Bender, a high-ranking agent of the CIA.”
Calling Communism Out
(Christian Herald, 1963)
“Nikita Khrushchev told the 22nd Congress of the Soviet Communist Party:”
‘We need a well-considered and orderly system of scientific-atheist education that will embrace all strata and groups of the population and will prevent the dissemination of religious concepts, especially among children and adolescents.’
“In these words, Mr. Khrushchev is highlighting a basic inherit characteristic of Communism – its war against the dignity of man as a child of God.
Military Psychiatry Up Front
(Collier’s Magazine, 1952)
Having learned a good deal from two world wars concerning the fragile nature of soldiers and Marines who suffered from battle fatigue, the U.S. Army Medical Department sent hastily trained psychiatrists to the forward positions during the Korean War in order to better serve these men – and get them back to battle. The Atomic Age name for battle fatigue is neurotic psychiatric casualty
‘The Strange War the U.S. Is Not Winning”
(United States News, 1963)
It’s a dirty, vicious war that Americans are [waging] in the swamps of South Vietnam. Men forget about the politics of Saigon when they stand gun to gun with the Communist guerrillas…
The Korean War’s Effect on Wall Street
(Quick Magazine, 1950)
The outbreak of the war in Korea sent stocks tumbling in all important world markets. In N.Y., three months of profits were wiped out. At week’s end some stocks rose, but jittery brokers kept an eye on the war news and – an ear turned toward Washington, where announcements of increased U.S. participation in the fighting touched off further waves of selling>
The Pentagon Prepared for W.W. III
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)
Shortly after the Soviet Union successfully tested their first atomic bomb, the brass hats who work in the Pentagon saw fit to take the first step in preparing to fight an atomic war: they gave the order to create a subterranean headquarters to house a military command and control center for the U.S. and her allies.
The finished chamber, according to local observers, will be 3,100 feet long, contain four suites for the top brass (the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others), and provide operational quarters for some 1,200 technicians in peacetime, or 5,000 if atomic bombing threatens the Washington command.
Commonly known as Site R, it is located not terribly far from the presidential retreat, Camp David, and in the subsequent years since this article first appeared, the complex has grown considerably larger than when it was first envisioned. Today, Site R maintains more than thirty-eight military communications systems and it has been said that it was one of undisclosed locations that hosted Vice President Dick Cheney (b. 1941) shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
A related article can be read here…
Cold War Politics and People of Color
(Pageant Magazine, 1959)
This well-illustrated article appeared in a middle class American magazine in 1959 and it reported on the rising international sentiments that signaled to the dominate Western powers that the old diplomacy of the wealthier white nations had to change. It will help to explain why the United States re-fashioned their immigration laws in 1965.
N.AT.O. Established
(Dept. of the Army, 1956)
Attached is a printable page from an R.O.T.C. primer concerning American Military History outlined the events of 1948 that created the need for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O.).
This pact, called the North Atlantic Treaty, united Great Britain, the United States, and ten western European nations in a common security system. Approved by the Senate in April 1949, the treaty provided for mutual assistance, including the use of armed force in the event of a Soviet attack upon one or more of the signatory powers.