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...troop concentrations and supply lines. Last week Major General Emmett ("Rosy") O'Donnell's new Far East Bomber Command sent World War II Superfortresses (now classified as "medium bombers") to drop almost 1,000 tons of bombs on Red rail centers and supply bases north of the 38th parallel...
...answer to other questions, Lie: 1) rejected mediation in Korea "at this time"; 2) refused to bar use of atomic weapons there; 3) left it to the Security Council to decide whether U.N. forces should drive north of the 38th parallel, but recalled that U.N. had repeatedly urged unification of Korea; 4) declined comment on whether North Korean leaders should be treated as war criminals, but added: "I am quite sure they started the attack and the aggression...
...leaders, harassed and driven from pillar to post, were still not talking or acting like representatives of a beaten people. Rhee sees the war as a step in reuniting Korea-under Rhee. Said the benign, white-haired President to a TIME correspondent last week: "The Kremlin leaders destroyed the 38th parallel by invasion. Now it is gone. There is no reason now why we should observe the 38th parallel and no reason why the U.S. and the U.N. should observe it ... The cold war and all that is a waste of time. Finally force is the only argument...
Snapped Defense Minister Shin: "We kept to the parallel like the Great Wall of China. But what happened-they violated it. Now God is with us. Why stop at the 38th parallel...
...week ran South Korea's police force, came word of an omen which he felt blessed the republic's cause. The omen: the year 1950 in the Korean calendar is 4283. Reversed, 4283 reads 3824. In Korean 3824 is pronounced "Sampal isa" which also means "No more 38th...