GI's General on Stand in Senate Hearing Spotlight
Gen Omar Bradley appears for Senate hearings on firing Gen Douglas MacArthur. The Joint Chiefs chairman, mild in manner, faces questions about war policy, Korea limits, and the danger of a broader conflict. Bradley, 58, led the 12th Army Group through Normandy and the Ardennes, shaping postwar strategy.
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Washington
Senate
Omar Nelson Bradley
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees
Omar Bradley
Douglas MacArthur
Bradley
MacArthur
George C. Marshall
Sam Browne
Chapel Hill
N. C
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs
12Th Army Group
Normandy
Ardernes Forest
Germany
Korea
Iran Threatens to Expel British Oil Workers in Nationalization Row
Tehran warned it would expel all British oil field workers if opposition to seizure of the British owned oil industry continued. Britain mobilized 3000 troops as a possible deterrent while U S envoy Grady urged delay and a neutral commission study before any nationalization.
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Tehran
Iran
Uptran
Britain
16Th Parachute Brigade
Persian Gulf
Anglotranian Old Co
Herbert Morrison
London
Isle of Wight
U. S
Henry Grady
Mohammed Mossadegh
Grady
Mossadegh
Tri-nation Conclave Opens in Singapore
High ranking US British and French military leaders meet in Singapore to align Southeast Asia defense plans and discuss possible responses to Communist aggression. No decisions were to be made, with plans to be submitted and kept discreet as observers from Australia and New Zealand watch.
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United States
Britain
France
Southeast Asia
China
Indochina
Malaya
Washington
London
Paris
Australia
New Zealand
Imander
Ameri
Can
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
U. S
Asia
Peiping
de Lattre
Rioting Poles Questioned After Baltic Violence
New York dispatch reports that over 1500 Poles in Stettin have been questioned in the past month amid anti-Soviet unrest following April 9 shootings by a Russian major. The mob killed four Polish police and a doctor and bystander as the major fled, later hiding in a cellar before a militia member was shot.
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New York
New York Times
Paris
Stettin
Baltic
Times
Inchon Landing Plans in North Korean Spy Case
Yoshi matsu Iwamura, 28, labelled ringleader in a North Korean spy ring, allegedly possessed top secret Inchon landing plans a week before the 1950 operation. Maj. Robert M. Murray said the document couldHave altered Gen Douglas MacArthur's be-hind the lines assault. Iwamura, Chang Man Ko head a group of 18 defendants in Japan. Capt. John Rice to testify. case marks first trial from 45 suspects.
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Poryo
Inchon
United States Army
Robert M. Murray
International Provost Court
Inchan
Yoshimatsu Iwamura
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
Seoul
U. N
Pusan
Iwamura
Chang Man Ko
Japan
North Korea
Murray
John Rice
San Francisco
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