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...Korean war] is the utter uselessness of the enormous sacrifice." The original "high moral purpose," he said, had "yielded to the timidity and fear of our leaders" because they had hesitated to answer the attack of the Chinese Communists effectively. "Appeasement thereafter became the policy of war on the battlefield...
...machines at the Pentagon, one day last week, were hammering out the Korean casualty list. Next to the regular entry, "K.I.A." (killed in action), the machines printed: None. For the first time in 53 weeks, 24 hours had passed in Korea without a single U.S. soldier dying on the battlefield...
...fact, it was less a Russian feeler than a reaction to various cease-fire proposals made by Douglas MacArthur and others. Malik and Gromyko made news by hinting that the Reds were finally willing to talk battlefield truce; the Americans had long ago expressed their willingness...
Along with their uncommon courage and skill, the flipper-footed, goggle-eyed warriors in swimming trunks bring to the picture the nightmarish excitement of their strange underwater battlefield. Even above the surface, the simple techniques of the frogmen going into action are dramatically detailed: at a rhythmic signal, each man flops out of a destroyer's speeding launch, flattens for a moment on a small rubber raft fastened alongside, then peels off into the sea as the next signal sends another man on to the skimming raft in his place. Below the surface, in a weirdly lighted world...
...expects a battlefield truce...