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...green U.S. helicopters windmilled up from Munsan, the allied "advance outpost" for truce talks, and vanished to the north in the morning haze. They flew slowly. In ten minutes they were across the Imjin River; in a few more minutes their pilots sighted Kaesong, three miles south of the 38th parallel, the war-battered town the Communists had picked as the place to talk peace...
Then came the waiting. Along the battle lines, fighting slackened. South Korean leaders worried over the prospect of a settlement whjch would leave North Korea in Communist hands. Their legislature had already passed a resolution opposing a cease-fire at the 38th parallel. In Pusan, the powerful National Society staged a street rally and, before waving, hand-clapping Koreans, voted for a fight to the finish, immediate disarmament of North Korean Communists, and "international sanctions" against the aggressors' allies. But elsewhere in the non-Communist world, there was only cautious hope...
...Establishment of a 20-mile-deep buffer zone from five miles south of the 38th parallel on the west to a point 15 miles north on the east-roughly paralleling the line now held by the U.N., and requiring the Communists to do the moving back...
...Ridgway, commander in chief of United Nations forces: Your statement . . . concerning peace talks has been received. We agree to meet your representative for conducting talks concerning cessation of military action and establishment of peace. We propose that the place of meeting be in the area of Kaesong on the 38th parallel. If you agree, our representatives are prepared to meet your representative between July...
...Korean refugees with no place to live and not much to live for. There would still be the Korean political problem-and beyond it, the worldwide struggle with Communist aggression which would be gravely affected, for better and for worse, by a Korean settlement. A cease-fire near the 38th parallel was not a victory for the West in the usual sense. The enemy had not surrendered, was not broken ; he was to be allowed to keep most of what he had when he started the war, including a good chance to start the same one again...