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...Korean peninsula in the wake of a shattered North Korean army, General Douglas MacArthur summarily called on the enemy "forthwith to lay down your arms and cease hostilities." The Red reply was the massive Chinese assault from Manchuria which divided the U.N. forces and drove them south of the 38th parallel...
...line with this theory of resistance, Bundy feels that MacArthur should move across the 38th parallel--perhaps at first on tactical maneuvers. If these succeed, he should keep going to Pyonyang. "Otherwise they're getting off awfully cheap," Bundy commented, "and aggression shouldn...
...years ago the same soldiers were fighting the same enemy at the same parallel (the 38th crosses Athens), in the opposite part of the globe, under much harder circumstances...
...good time, Ridgway was following, however, and there was some political uproar last week over whether he should or should not cross the 38th parallel. The uproar was largely meaningless, because: 1) the U.N. had already authorized MacArthur to operate anywhere in Korea, and the authorization remained valid until withdrawn; 2) for military rather than political reasons, the Joint Chiefs of Staff begrudged every mile of northward advance. With every mile Ridgway moved northward, the Communist supply lines from their Manchurian "sanctuary" grew shorter (therefore less vulnerable to air attack), and the U.N. lines grew longer...
...Peace. The evidence, said Strout, included Martin's favorite contention that the U.S. is trying to bring on World War III; that General MacArthur disobeyed United Nations directives when he crossed the 38th parallel in Korea. Martin bad also stated that Red China had been promised that MacArthur would not cross the parallel. Said Strout: there is no evidence that either of these statements is true. In truth, Strout added this week, the New Statesman itself "has encouraged the spread of the war by enlisting sympathy for the Chinese aggressors...