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...determination by breaking off the talks for two months. The result was to bring Matt Ridgway's army down on them with almost as much weight as before, and the Reds came meekly back to the table and gave up their demand for a truce line on the 38th parallel. Washington might have learned a lesson. Instead, it all but stopped the pressure. U.N. settled down to a wait & see campaign. Casualties fell off, but over the past ten weeks the U.S. has still suffered a weekly average loss of 60-plus killed, 140-plus wounded. The cost...
...cease-fire line at the 38th parallel...
Other international pressure points which the Conference will cover include a Security Council plan for ending the Kashmir dispute, the 38th parallel as a dividing line of Korea, and international trusteeship for Formosa...
...through Bloody Ridge, the Punch Bowl, Heartbreak Ridge and the rest. Its goal was a defensible line on which to rest the truce. If the Administration had adopted the new policy in June, it might have saved the subsequent casualties. It could have accepted a truce at the "indefensible" 38th parallel, and defended that with a threat to open up on the China coast...
SEPTEMBER-Demand & Supply. In Korea, the 2nd Division's 38th Regiment requisitioned a generator and two typewriters, received a candle and two pencils...