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Only a fortnight before, Douglas MacArthur had called on the Communists to meet him on the battlefield to negotiate peace in Korea. His statement had sent Washington, U.N. and Western European diplomats into a dither, and the world rang with demands that he be silenced or recalled...
This response by Red China last week to Douglas MacArthur's proposal for a battlefield conference on a truce (TiME, April 2) seemed plain as plain could be. The words were backed up by a continued massive buildup of fresh Chinese Communist forces on the Korean front, presumably for another, greater Red offensive against the U.N. (see below). But in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), London and other non-Communist capitals, a lot of diplomats and pundits sounded as though MacArthur rather than Mao Tse-tung was really the warmonger...
Wouk himself spent four years in the Navy, part of the time as executive officer of the destroyer-minesweeper Southard. His aboard-ship scenes have a sharp, detailed reality that few of the army novelists have been able to give to their battlefield passages. No prude, he manages to achieve realism without obscenity, is perhaps the first World War II novelist in the U.S. with enough maturity to realize that four-letter words are "good-humored billingsgate . . . and not significant." That Author Wouk has absolute control of the Caine's little world will be granted by anyone...
...demand its place in the sun. Last week the airborne's demands were beginning to produce results. The Air Force announced that it is setting up a new command at Greenville, S.C.-the Eighteenth Air Force-whose sole job will be carrying troopers and equipment to the battlefield...
...check, Tokyo explained, was that information vital to the enemy had been seeping out of field headquarters, some of it in Army communiques. But the double check made little sense to correspondents, since 1) it did not apply to Navy or Air Force dispatches and 2) censors on the battlefield presumably know more about what should be killed than Tokyo. The New York Herald Tribune's David McConnell, who was censored by Tokyo in filing a story on the new censorship itself, pointed out that all news from Korea moves on "unsecure" telephone and teletype lines, "which the Communists...