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...India's Rau made an unexpected move. He suggested that the Council's six small powers form a committee to draft a Korean peace plan; he added that India would stick by her insistence that peace must depend on a withdrawal of the North Koreans to the 38th parallel. Malik, for once, had nothing...
...crews from Calcutta and Rio de Janeiro, rehired 104 pilots it had laid off in January. Seaboard & Western, a nonscheduled cargo line, loaded 25 Lockheed Aircraft Service maintenance men in its DC-4 Singapore Trader, flew them to California. July 3, eight days after the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, the Singapore Trader took off from Fairfield-Suisun on the Tokyo lift's first official flight. At the controls was Captain Francis A. Warner, 32, who had flown the same ship across the Atlantic two years before in support of the Berlin lift...
...North Korean tanks), which had been bombed by B-29s the day before, reported the refinery "a twisted mass of steel." In three big strikes, B-29s had dropped 1,300 tons of bombs on the Chosen Nitrogen Chemical Co. at Hungnam, 126 miles north of the 38th parallel. The Air Force claimed to have severely damaged at least a third of the "buildings, laboratories, power plants and warehouses" in the target area...
...these atom bombs if they're not to be used? It's just like having a new car in the garage and letting it be idle. What we ought to do is to notify the Russians that if they don't get back north of the 38th parallel by a certain date, we'll drop the bomb on them...
...Green Duck). Springing northeast from Paektu, the cold Tumen River separates Korea from eastern Manchuria and Siberia. On the Yalu and along the swift-flowing tributaries of the Tumen stand the Japanese-built hydroelectric plants which, until the power lines were cut by the Communists at the 38th parallel, provided 90% of the electricity used in all Korea...