Week of October 15, 1950

On Wake Island, President Truman and

Gen. MacArthur announced that they are

confident that the United Nations can

“surmount” the dangers threatening

world peace. Both agree that a peace

treaty for Japan is vital now regardless of

any ideas the Russians may have. The

President and MacArthur meet for the

first time on this coral mid-Pacific atoll

where the Marines made a valiant stand

in 1941.

The U.S. Army is building its strength in Berlin. The action is being taken to show

that the United States intends to keep occupation troops in Berlin, despite any

future Soviet moves to force them out.

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigns, causing Israel’s first Cabinet crisis

since the new state was founded in May 1948.

President Truman returns form his 14,000 mile round-trip journey to Wake Island

and will ask Congress for substantial funds to help U.N. put ravaged Korea on its

feet.

Korean War - South Korean and American troops race each other for the Red

capital of Pycongyang. South Korean advance units are reported only eight miles

away.

American parachute troops jump into Communist territory 23 miles north of

Pyongyang in a thrust to cut off Red escape routes from the U.N. occupied North

Korean capital. Gen. MacArthur, circling the battle area in his transport plane,

personally directed the first parachute drop of the Korean campaign.

Former President Herbert Hoover urges the United States to stop financial aid to

Western European countries until they build a “sufficient” army and assume most

of the task of defending themselves against Communist

aggression.

one time, one of the most powerful political “bosses” in the

nation. He died of a heart attack while walking out of a

doctor’s office. He was found in sound health, and Kelly