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"Radford said it was no secret that French and (Bao Dai) Vietnamese forces had suffered setbacks in their military operations in northern Vietnam recently. The Joint Chiefs of Staff will conduct a detailed study of the situation in Indochina and discuss several There is a plan to deal with changes in the situation in Indochina in the future. But Radford believes that the plan does not include directly dispatching the U.S. navy and air force to intervene in the wars in Vietnam and the Indochina peninsula.”
Bradley was the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff when the Korean armistice agreement was signed. Mr. Bu had been relieved in August, and he retired and went home to take care of himself.The new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Arthur William Radford, an admiral by training in the U.S. Naval Air Service.
During his term of office, Radford allocated funds to build the "Kitty Hawk"-class conventionally powered aircraft carrier and the "Enterprise" nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, built a common defense system between the United States and Taiwan, and stationed real combat troops in Taiwan-of course, the Taiwan issue is no longer an issue. exists.Radford also actively promoted the United States to intervene in the Suez Canal War and carve up the colonial heritage of Britain and France. He believed that the United States should actively intervene in Vietnam and take over the mess in Vietnam from the French.
It seems a bit wrong now. Radford actually said that the time to use the US navy and air force in Indochina is not yet ripe?
This is the euphemistic official language spoken to the Senate at the hearing, and the real meaning behind it is translated as "the U.S. Navy and Air Force must not commit to Vietnam now, or they will lose badly."
The reason for the deviation from the historical track should be that North Korea and Taiwan have made a deeper impression on the United States.
Now the impression of the U.S. military is not only that the Volunteers can’t be gnawed on land, but the U.S. military still has a deep memory of the anti-aircraft missiles all over the ground and the cruiser "Manchester" that was shot to death in the Taiwan Strait.
Of course, Radford is only taking a more cautious attitude towards military actions around China.In other parts of the world far away from China, he will still uphold the basic principles of the US military and look for every opportunity to expand and flex his muscles.Even, because the hot spot in Vietnam did not dare to let go, the remaining energy of the US military may be vented to another hot spot.
In short, we have to keep an eye on the trend of the United States in this regard.
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"Old Pan, Miss Dong, hello."
Half a year has passed since the finale of the Taiwan War. Pan Hannian returned to Beijing from the United States in June and stayed in Beijing for half a year.Before leaving, come to say goodbye.
"When you first came back in June, you thought you were really going to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to sit in the office," Tang Hua said, "It seems that you still can't be idle, and you have to go on a mission again."
Li Kenong: "Pan Hannian couldn't stay in the Ministry of Intelligence, and he wasn't used to it in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since he is still good at working as an intelligence officer, the Prime Minister assigned him to the Central Propaganda Department."
This is real.
Pan Hannian's current organizational relationship is "sort of" in the Central Propaganda Department.
Vice President of Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch.
Just like in the past, the current Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch is responsible for part of our organizational leadership in Hong Kong, consular liaison functions, and intelligence agencies.
The Prime Minister also joked seriously: "To be precise, he is optimistic about China Resources for me and Tang Hua. Now the two founders of China Resources can't go to Hong Kong, so I can only send him there."
After 1951, the business of China Resources shrank sharply, and the profit in 1952 dropped sharply compared with that in 1951. In 1953, the current expected annual profit is a little lower than that in 1952, hovering around 500 million US dollars.However, after August 53, due to the release of the British, China Resources' sales and profits showed signs of recovery. In 8, if the British continued to release water, it is not impossible for some of China Resources' businesses to recover.
The Prime Minister was right, not only could he not go to Hong Kong, but Tang Hua himself could only spend time in the country and the socialist camp.At least for the foreseeable future.
"Ah? Is it so important? China Resources is still operating normally, right? Manager Qin is very reliable." Tang Hua said, "We have to pay more attention to Hong Kong's intelligence and governance work."
Li Kenong: "Emotional governance?"
Tang Hua: "The word I invented, intelligence and politics."
Li Kenong: "...All right, all right, you have a point."
Tang Hua and Li Kenong talked back and forth, while the Prime Minister was listening, thinking about "intelligence" and "politics".
Pan Hannian: "Actually, my identity has been made public now. My work in Hong Kong may include some of those affairs, but I will definitely not come forward directly. Tang Hua, when you talk about politics, this word can really make me do things. Things sum up."
Prime Minister: "When you come to Hong Kong, what you have to do is to get close to the people at the bottom of Hong Kong and establish contact with them, not just deal with the upper class."
Pan Hannian: "Understood, I have picked up Cantonese again in the past six months. Speaking of this, Tang Hua, the songs of you and Zhou Xuan are enduring in Hong Kong."
Zhou Xuan listened to what Pan Hannian said, and turned to look at Tang Hua with a smile.Tang Hua also smiled: "Then release another album, just... next year. It's just a mix of Cantonese and Mandarin. In fact, you not only want to post ours, but also dig and create some that are close to the aesthetics of modern cities. , Music works with a theme that is close to the earth and with family and country feelings. It is best to be in Cantonese."
Pan Hannian nodded first, then suddenly realized, and patted his thigh: "Tang Hua, you are actually talking about politics."
Tang Hua: "The people who use Mandarin in Hong Kong are mainly middle- and upper-class Chinese. Among the Chinese in this class, the proportion of people who fled Hong Kong in 49 and this year is not low. The culture and art of these people, because of the relationship between language, will not sink. To the people at the bottom who don't know Mandarin but only Cantonese. So this is a blank area that we can break into."
Another factor that needs to be considered is that after Tang Hua became a shareholder and transformed China Resources, in order to earn more dollars, he set up many labor-intensive enterprises in Hong Kong. At its peak, it directly employed nearly 4 people, and the industries it drove employed more workers. After 1951, the West's comprehensive embargo on the mainland almost wiped out China Resources' import and export business, but most of the labor-intensive manufacturing industries were operating normally—the products of these factories were not sold to the mainland.Although Hong Kong is not an economic take-off now, it is not the poor fishing port in history.
The mainland has become the weathervane and suzerainty of Hong Kong's music, culture and art.China Resources continues to develop, or establish a few more enterprises, not only to earn foreign exchange for the country, but also to control the job market in Hong Kong.When Sino-British relations are good, everything is fine; when Sino-British relations are not good, Hong Kong society will be unstable if China Resources makes troubles.If these two points are achieved, the mainland will continue to develop normally. After more than ten or twenty years, the UK itself will not be able to hold back.
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Moscow region, Kaliningrad.
Former Nazi German technologists working in the USSR went home.
"Although the Soviet Union cannot give you any medals and awards, or even publish the work you have done, OKB-1 will remember your contributions. In the Soviet missile project, you have dedicated your talents. Thank you."
Sergey Korolev, a Soviet aerospace and ballistic missile expert and chief designer of OKB-1, shook hands with German missile experts and engineers who were about to return to East Germany.
After the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviet Union collected a group of former Nazi scientists and engineers from East Germany and brought them back to the Soviet Union for their own use.This is quite similar to the "paper clip" project of the United States, except that the Soviet Union did not recruit as many talents as the United States.
In the past 8 years, Soviet ballistic missiles have developed several models, and they have begun to be combined with nuclear weapons.The development teams of ballistic missiles and rockets are getting higher and higher levels of secrecy, and the identities of these former Nazi German scientists and engineers are becoming more and more sensitive.Finally, in November 1953, the Supreme Soviet ordered that the team of German experts working in the field of Soviet rockets and missiles be disbanded, and return to Germany after issuing pensions and changing their identities to become ordinary Germans.Of course, activities are not absolute freedom, but as long as they do not flee to West Germany, they can enjoy their retirement life in East Germany.
"We are very grateful and will always miss the time we worked together in OKB-1." Friedrich, a senior engineer of the German expert group, said, "Comrade Korolev, when you also live in retirement in the future, maybe we We can meet again."
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"The departure of the Germans will not cause much damage to our work. Next, we will step up the launch of new models."
Korolev walked to the model room of OKB-1 and looked at the series of ballistic missile models in front of him.
R-1, a copy of the German V-2.
R-2, an improved version of R-1.
R-5, the missile called SS-2 by NATO, is the first Soviet intermediate missile. It has been tested several times and is ready for mass production, but the output depends on the output of Soviet nuclear warheads.
Korolev went to the last model. The model of the same scale is much larger than the previous missiles. It has a main missile body and four boosters as thick as the main missile body. It looks like a Green fagots.
"The ground test report of R-7 is completed, and we may have to make major revisions to its design." Designer Mishin said later.
"The test report is not the most important thing. After the test is completed, I will know where the problem is," Korolev said. "This project must not be postponed. The first test launch will be carried out in 1957."
Korolev has made more than 100 improvements to the original design, and he is confident that the R-7 will pass the ground test in half a year.
Mishin: "The top management is still obsessed with destroying the United States directly from the Soviet Union. We seem to have little confidence in bombers and prefer missile attacks. The United States is the opposite of us."
Korolev: "If you understand the capabilities of the anti-aircraft missile positions deployed around Moscow, you will know that our leaders made the right choice."
Mishin: "So be it. Executing orders is above all else. Let's run fast on the road to our mutual death and the destruction of the Earth."
Korolev: "No, it's a fallacy."
Mishin:?
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It's not just Korolev and Mishin arguing.In the past month or so, the scientific community of the Soviet Union and some ministers of the Council of Ministers have been discussing this topic: How much impact will nuclear war have on the earth's environment?Are human beings really so small that they still cannot shake the earth?
The source of all this seems to come from a paper written by Zhu Kezhen and two articles published in newspapers.