Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field, described it as not only serious but "desperate." On good flying days, U.S. and Australian fighter planes harried the enemy armor and communications, but in the rainy monsoon season, good flying days are too few. In spite of continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order. And MacArthur's communiques constantly mentioned the grave danger of envelopment by Communists from the Wonju-Chungju area, of southward thrusts from Communist beachheads at Utchin and other points...
Where is the Korean war leading the world? Will the fierce forest fire in the mountainous land below the 38th parallel be confined to the Korean peninsula? Will it spread around the globe, to sear the capitals of the world with atomic fire? Or is 1950 the beginning of a series of slow, limited wars that will keep the U.S. and its allies committed in battle for generations...
Stalin's Russia can move forward, sideways or backwards. One smart Russian move might be an offer of a "general" settlement in which the Communists would move back of the 38th parallel in Korea, and the U.S. would recognize Communist China and accept Mao Tse-tung's nominee for the United Nations. That would be tantamount to handing Asia over to Communism...
...there was calm agreement that the time had come at last to stop Red aggression. From the quiet reaches of New Brunswick came unusually heated words. Said the Saint John Times-Globe: "Probably a few [atom bombs] dropped now would quickly send the North Koreans back behind the 38th Parallel...
...reel The Battle for Korea rushed 3,000 prints out to U.S. exhibitors. Less enterprising studios hastily staked claims to likely-looking titles. Last week the Motion Picture Association of America reported that its lists of registered titles already include: Korea, South Korea, Crisis in Korea, The 38th Parallel, 38° Parallel, North of the 38th Parallel, Formosa, Indo-China...