Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This decision, however, is overruled by the larger number who would not allow appeasement, even partial appeasement. "Try to maintain a line at the 38th parallel," they say, "pour in as many men as we need to hold on." If we can not do this now they say, pull out and then go back in again, We cannot afford to lose face in the East, this school claims...
Communist troops occupied Pyongyang yesterday, only eight hours after the U. N.'s rear guard left, despite heavy allied air attacks. The Eighth Army is reported to be stopping its southerly retreat somewhere below the 38th parallel, north of Seoul, and preparing to hold a line in the hills above the border...
...unification the U.N., in fact, did not see eye to eye with Korea's President Syngman Rhee. And Koreans differed angrily among themselves. Despite a U.N. order that Korea above the 38th parallel did not come under the Rhee government, Seoul still claimed jurisdiction, demanded elections north of the parallel...
...protect supply convoys. The guerrillas burned the town of Kapyong and seized and terrorized Chunchon. Near Seoul they ambushed a trainload of Turkish troops, killing one, wounding two. Syngman Rhee's Minister of Home Affairs averred that no less than 40,000 guerrillas were operating below the 38th parallel...
Wails of Dismay. The mystery of what the Chinese interventionists were up to in Korea remained unclarified last week, and they refused to explain themselves at Lake Success (see below). But the theory that they intended to drive the Allies back below the 38th parallel, or even off the peninsula altogether, was somewhat less tenable than before. After the massive surprise attack of last fortnight, instead of pressing their advantage they stopped in their tracks and even pulled back, in some sectors, beyond reach of Allied patrols. They counterattacked cautiously when the regrouped U.N. forces advanced cautiously; but the whole...