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Just 22 hours before the anniversary of the day on which the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob Malik faced a microphone on the U.N.'s Price of Peace program. His text clanked along on familiar Communist lines until, at the end of the broadcast, came the words that caused the world to prick up its ears: Russia was proposing a Korea armistice. Did it mean that the Communists had had enough...
...acute problem for the present day-the problem of the armed conflict in Korea-could also be settled . . . The Soviet people believe that, as a first step, discussions should be started between the belligerents for a ceasefire, and an armistice providing for the mutual withdrawal of forces from the 38th parallel. Can. such a step be taken? I think...
Malik's proposal for armistice at the 38th parallel, with the rest of the issues to be taken up at the conference table, included an obvious trap for the U.N. If the proposal were adopted, U.N. forces would be pinned down in Korea as long as the Russians wanted to talk. There would be no guarantee that peace would ever be achieved or that the Chinese would not resume the fighting when it suited them...
...38th parallel...
Across the 38th...