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...Soviet peace talk might go on for months, or it might end tomorrow-with an all-out Communist offensive in Korea. It is already producing some of the results the Communists want. In the free world, there is wistful talk of relaxing. The timorous argue that every armament race in history has resulted in war. Optimists say that the worst danger is past; it is now time to spend more on butter...
...political drafts are not created without heat. They decided that it was time to warm up the campaign. Too many Ike supporters were nervously eyeing the Taft bandwagon, well filled with professionals who have a lot of delegates and a yearning for a "real" Republican who will put on an all-out campaign without "me-tooing" the Fair Deal. Ike supporters needed reassurance, and with Scott's news, Dewey & Co. decided they could be given reassurance. Emerging from Duff's office, Tom Dewey publicly planted himself before the waiting reporters, in the role of chief Ike-booster...
...Eighth Army last week was fighting about as hard as it was possible to fight without launching an all-out offensive -which the U.N. generals had no intention of doing just yet. The Eighth was engaged in a series of local "limited offensives" which had three aims: 1) to push the Reds off strategic high ground; 2) to kill as many of them as possible; 3) to knock their big buildup off balance...
...Washington, the State Department had braced itself for a thundering Russian denunciation of the conference and a refusal to attend. Only last week Secretary Acheson warned reporters to expect an all-out Russian propaganda campaign against the signing of the treaty. Moscow has already demanded that Communist China be invited to the conference and has blasted the treaty-draft as illegal, a violation of the Cairo, Yalta and Potsdam agreements, and an invitation to "rebirth of Japan as an aggressive state...
...Reds' reaction: a threat to put an all-out blockade on West Berlin...