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Near Tanchon, about 170 miles north of the 38th parallel, the party made shore under a covering barrage from the Bass and the U.S. destroyer Tingey. That part of the coast was well watched and well defended, and Colonel Grant's men ran into Red machine-gun fire. Nevertheless, they managed to blow up a tunnel before scrambling back to their boats. They left many Communist dead and their own casualties were light...
...first blush, this seemed to come close to meeting U.N. demands, and looked like an even bigger concession than the Communist abandonment of the 38th parallel. If the Reds meant what they said, it would be the first time in any postwar negotiations that an Iron Curtain country has been willing to let outsiders in for a look around. Cautiously pleased but wary of booby traps, Joy's team prepared a list of 21 questions which they wanted the Reds to answer. For example, just what countries would the Communists consider neutral. Nam II promised a prompt answer...
...facto cease-fire." Washington had interposed a plan based on a different estimate of the Reds-measuring their desire for an armistice by the fact that they had agreed to negotiate in the first place, and by the large concession the Reds had made in giving up the 38th parallel as a demarcation line. In effect, Washington was saying to Ridgway and his negotiators that the Reds might make peace if they were given relief from inexorable pressure at the conference table...
...fire line be dealt with first. Hoping for a quick armistice, the U.N. had agreed. There followed months of bickering, deadlocks, interruptions, neutral zone problems and false Red accusations. Thus it seemed a U.N. triumph, and a hastening of peace, when the Reds gave up their insistence on the 38th parallel line, and accepted instead the present battle line. Some military bigwigs talked as if peace was just around the corner. But last week the Reds' seeming compliance with Matt Ridgway's demands was spotted as a trap which would bottle up U.N. military strength behind a fixed...
...himself, and his wit was chillier. But it was the same old Soviet line, with a few new twists to adjust to the passage of a year. For disarmament, Vishinsky wanted a world disarmament conference, to sit by next June; for Korea, he insisted on a truce at the 38th parallel and an evacuation of all foreign troops; for the benefit of Communism, he wanted the U.N. to condemn and outlaw the West's North Atlantic defense organization; for the record, he wanted it understood that the same old Wall Street imperialists and Washington warmongers were responsible...