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...world's free nations last week there were men who urged that U.N. forces content themselves with shooing North Koreans across the 38th parallel. Leading spokesman for this group was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India. Nehru's avowed reasons for opposing the crossing: fear that invasion of North Korea would bring Communist China, possibly even Russia, into the war; the prospect that by following North Korean aggressors across the parallel the U.N. forces might themselves become guilty of aggression. Nehru revealed another, less far-fetched motive when he snapped, "I am no great admirer of [South Korean...
...repeatedly declared that Korea must be united. If Korea is treated as a single nation, said Britain's Ernest Bevin, "the 38th parallel automatically disappears...
...ever recognized the 38th parallel as a permanent political frontier...
Stop Short? In Washington a State Department spokesman neatly summarized the U.S. position. Said he: "The whole [Korean] operation would be a bust if we stopped at the 38th parallel. If we stop short we might as well have stayed out to begin with...
...that the broad language of the original U.N. resolutions on the Korean question gave MacArthur all the authority he needed, left the decision up to him. In the U.N., eight nations jointly proposed a British-written resolution which would by implication authorize MacArthur's troops to cross the 38th parallel...