LAKE SUCCESS: An Allied expeditionary force comprising ground units from as many as a dozen nations was marshalling behind the United Nations flag on Wednesday [July 26] to fight in Korea. Britain ... promised to send ground troops ... to reinforce the hard-pressed United States forces in Korea. The Admirality announced that two aircraft carriers carrying troops and two fighter bomber squadrons will be sent to reinforce the 28 British warships already on duty in the Far Eastern waters.

Equal enthusiasm was accorded to an announcement from Australia and New Zealand and Turkey whose Governments joined Thailand in declaring that they would send ground troops in South Korea. ... The prospects were that a force of 30,000 to 40,000 men, believed to have been the goal when Secretary-General Trygve Lie issued his call for more combat troops on July 14, would be mustered in support of the first fighting sanctions action ever sponsored by the world peace organisation. On the basis of publicly announced figures the United Nations AEF ... already was at least 12,500 men strong aside from the three American Divisions now fighting in Korea. News agencies