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...defining the objectives of the war. When its policymakers failed, the voices of the . U.S. allies began to make themselves felt. As MacArthur, intent on victory, approached the Yalu, the Chinese, no doubt encouraged by dissension in the U.N. governments, attacked and threw MacArthur back. He rallied below the 38th parallel, started north again. The U.N. confusion over the object of the war grew noisier. With the firing of MacArthur, the confusion was not resolved. It was frozen...
Thus, 37 months and two days after the Russian-trained North Koreans attacked across the 38th parallel, the Korean war-a devastating struggle, laced from the start with glory, agony, triumph, frustration-came to a halt, perhaps temporary, perhaps permanent. The war had cost the U.S. more than 140,000 casualties (some 25,000 dead, 102,000 wounded, 13,000 missing and captured), $22 billion. The problem of ending it had roweled the best brains of two U.S. Administrations, and had helped to win a national election for one, to lose it for the other...
...June 29, 1950, the President of the U.S. told the American people that a "bunch of bandits" had crossed the 38th parallel in Korea. "Under the circumstances," said Harry Truman, "I have ordered U.S. air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops cover and support...
When the first British reinforcements arrived in beleaguered Pusan, many Americans thought so. Their confidence waned as the U.S. and its allies fell out over the conduct of the war. The first squall arose when Douglas MacArthur wanted U.N. authority for crossing the 38th parallel in pursuit of the North Koreans. In studiedly vague language, the General Assembly authorized the Eighth Army to "insure stability in Korea," and bring about "a unified, independent and democratic government." The vote was 47-5 (the Russian bloc), but India and six other Asian and Arab nations parted company with the U.S., because...
...38th Parallel-U.S.A. (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). A documentary on the Korean war, narrated by Will Rogers...