The Korean War broke out 75 years ago

The United States was caught by surprise when heavily-armed North Korean troops and tanks poured into South Korea on June 25, 1950. But the Chicago Tribune had predicted America's enemies would pull just such a trick. Hastily flying back to Washington from his Missouri home, President Harry Truman acknowledged the situation was serious, adding he couldn't say more, "Until I have all the facts." The Tribune felt it already had the facts in hand. Its editor, Col. Robert R. McCormick, had long waged a verbal war against Josef Stalin's Communism and President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. To McCormick, they were…