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OP I'm thinking that at the time this would have caused no problems. Allied would have been taken as an adjective, the standard noun would have been Allies, and Push would have been commonly used in headlines in the noun sense. It's only the similarity to the infamous British Left Waffles on Falklands that would lead us, today, to the humorous misinterpretation.
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