Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds drive south of the 38th parallel, then we ought to hit Manchurian industries, arsenals and power dams with conventional bombs. We ought to impose at once a blockade of the entire China coast and give extended aid to the Nationalists on Formosa. We are absolutely against any more concessions to Communism...
...conceived by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi: a petition to Peking. Signed by 13 nations,* the note "earnestly" appealed to Red China and North Korea "immediately to declare that it is not their intention that any forces under their control should cross to the south of the 38th parallel." Then, the petitioners added, the whole dangerous issue could be talked over...
...document delivered to Red China's Wu Hsiu-chuan for forwarding to Peking. Wu, and later Russia's Andrei Vishinsky, cynically asked why the petition was not sent to Washington and other non-Communist capitals which had previously approved the U.N. army's advance across the 38th parallel. Meanwhile, Red forces in Korea crossed the parallel...
...pulled out of Korea and had washed its hands of Formosa, where Chiang Kai-shek's diehard Nationalists prepared their last stand. Mao's army, harassed by Chiang's naval & air blockade, stood poised for an invasion. Then Stalin's North Koreans moved across the 38th parallel. In a dramatic turnabout of policy, the American eagle soared from its lackadaisical perch...
...correspondent who accompanied Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker's army by jeep said the retreat ended somewhere south of the 38th parallel, with the army moving into new positions there