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... U.N. HEARS THE TRUMAN >QCTRINE r ne President's V >1 Policy Speech THE run BODY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS HEARS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Mr. Truman addressing the gathering at Flushing Meadow, New York, when he spoke on the fifth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. He warned lhat the democracies would continue arming against the threat of a Third ...
... AIR NEWS FROM AMERICA Some Recent Developments in Aviation THE H 19 HELICOPTER OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE IS NOW EQUIPPED FOR AMPHI BIOUS LANDINGS: The aircraft, with wheels projecting beneath the floats, is seen settling on to the surface of Long Island Sound during a recent test flight. This helicopter can carry ten passengers, or eight litter patients and a medical attendant, in ...
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... RETREAT FROM SUWON Commonwealth Troops Passing Through the City En Route to the South Refugees at the Suwon Railway Station MEMBERS OF ONE OF THE COMMON WEALTH BRIGADES MARCHING THROUGH SUWON They were on the way to the new defence line farther to the south, General MacArthur having ordered the abandonment of Suwon (which is 18 miles south of Seoul) and its important airfield. This was the ...
... PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S TEN POINTS In His Message to Congress on the State of the Union THE PRESIDENT ON THE ROSTRUM Mr. Truman delivering his speech to Congress on the State of the Union. Seated behind him was Vice- President Alben Barkley, now much altered in appearance by a recent weight-reducing course. MR. CHARLES SPOFFORD AT THE FIRST MEETING OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC DEFENCE PRODUCTION BOARD IN ...
... The Japanese Emperor and His Extensive Family Now Have to Live in Accord with the Democratic Tradition The Empferor Hirohito has been reduced since the war from the status of a god to a symbol of the State and of national unity. Some of the members of his family still bear princely titles, but two of his daughters, both married to commoners (one of them formerly of princely rank), are now ...
... TRAGEDY BY THE SOUTH PACIFIC SHORE This was the scene after an R.A.A.F. Winraway aircraft had crashed on a bathing-beach at Marroochydore. 72 miles north of Brisbane, killing two boys and a girl and seriously injuring ten other people. The aircraft, which was being used to watch for sharks and warn bathers, was circling- at a height of only 30 ft. when one of its wing-tips hit the beach. It ...
... THE OASIS IN THE DESERT Its Importance Undiminished in this Age of High-speed Travel Along the North African shore, Mussolini built great motor roads, so that his convoys might travel far and fast through his Libyan and Cyrenaican colonies. Air travel, too, has become a commonplace in the desert, and the sight of Britain's Comet, the world's first all-jet air-liner, will soon be familiar to ...
... BRITAIN'S LITTLE SI UPS DEPLOY FROM A MOBILE BASE Motor Torpedo-Boats Go Into Action Off the East Coast, Near Felixstowe FULL SPEED AHEAD AMID A LATHER OF FOAM A motor torpedo-boat of the most modern type in action off the east coast, near Felixstowe, where a series of exercises was held recently in order, primarily, to test operative efficiency when directed from a mobile camp. The base staff ...
... ON THE LINE OF COMMUNICATIONS IN KOREA I Aspects of the Long- drawn- out Struggle which is at Present Being Waged Just to the South of the 38//? Parallel A t the time of writing the war in Korea has become bogged down in a single area. It is a war of limited advances and retreats, but at the same time one of ascending casualties, for the Chinese and the North Korean troops are finding that the ...
... PREPARING for the ICE PATROL of 1951 HOW THE AMERICAN COAST GUARDS KEEP TRACK OF THE BERGS WHICH DRIFT SOUTH ACROSS THE SEALANES ETver since the Titanic disaster in 1912, when the world heard with horror and dismay that the newest and finest liner had gone down upon the Western Ocean with the loss of no fewer than 1,500 lives, United States Coast Guards have played a vital part in keeping ...