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...Means Nothing ..." For the third time in the war, U.N. forces pushed into North Korea, regaining almost all the ground for which the Chinese had paid so heavily in blood. Said Van Fleet: "The 38th parallel has no significance in the present tactical situation. It means nothing to me. The Eighth Army will go wherever the situation dictates in hot pursuit of the enemy. We intend to exploit every advantage in carrying out our objective to find and kill them...
...east coast, South Koreans pulled back below the 38th parallel, covered by a naval force including a U.S. battleship...
Through the tent flaps, walking or on litters, came men of the 23rd and 38th Infantry Regiments (2nd Division). They had fought their way out of Chinese encirclement in the rain-shrouded mountains and muddy valleys to the north. They had been coming in all day, and now it was midnight, and still they came, blinking and squinting, out of the night...
Nevertheless, wishful rumors of an impending cease-fire kept bobbing up last week. Colorado's Democratic Senator Edwin Johnson proposed 1) that the opposing armies in Korea accept the 38th parallel as a dividing line, and 2) that the U.N. call for a truce at 4 a.m. on June 25, the first anniversary of the Korean war. Johnson spoke of the Korean war as "a hopeless conflict of attrition and indecision . . . needless human slaughter." He implied that the U.S. ought to pull out, leaving "Asia for Asiatics...
...General Assembly, India's Sir Benegal Rau gleefully scooped up the Johnson idea, also recalled a recent statement by General Matthew Ridgway: "It would be a tremendous victory for the United Nations if the war ended with our forces in control up to the 38th parallel." The Kremlin seemed interested, too. The Moscow press printed the full text of Johnson's proposal. So did New York's Daily Worker; it commented significantly: "Why wait till June 25? End the killing now . . . Stop the war . . . Start talking with China and Korea...