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...person can guarantee these areas against military attack. It must also be clear that such a guarantee is hardly sensible or necessary . . . It is a mistake . . . in considering Pacific and Far Eastern problems to become obsessed with military considerations.' Five months later, Communist tanks were rolling over the 38th Parallel...
...Started. Back in the summer of 1950, when the Russian-trained forces of North Korea were poised to jump across the 38th parallel, there was a similar force in the Russian part of Kurdistan, ready to jump, too. It was Russian-trained and Russian-equipped. But it wasn't Russian. It was entirely Kurdish and led by a Kurd, Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (teacher of Islam) whom the Russians turned into a general...
During the next few days U.N. planes attacked a cement factory (whose output was being used for Red fortifications) at Osu, about 35 miles north of the 38th parallel in western Korea, and supply targets on both coasts and in Pyongyang, the already battered North Korean capital. The Reds complained with almost unprecedented shrillness. Radio Pyongyang called the U.N. air campaign "a new international crime worse than the atrocities committed by Hitler." The Communists also protested the U.N. use of napalm firebombs as an act of "barbarism," a charge long made by European Communists and fellow travelers...
...sever the East & West zones, became the newest extension of the Iron Curtain, and a bristling military frontier. Where there had been a steady if illegal trickle of East-West trade, now there was an absolute barrier, charged with electric hatreds, and ominously reminiscent of Korea's 38th parallel...
...Unlike Korea's 38th parallel, which ran approximately eastwest, the Potsdam line dividing Germany snakes unevenly from north to south roughly along the line of the eleventh meridian east of Greenwich, until it reaches Bavaria, where West German territory bulges eastward to the Czech border...