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Allied newsmen in Korea, who hang on the words of briefing officers and whose expectations of peace rise & fall daily and sometimes very steeply, pronounced the situation grimmer than at any time since the conferences were resumed in October.
The evidence before both boards was virtually the same, and the reversal was as much an indictment of State's loyalty judgments as it was of Service. The State Department board accepted Service's defense that he had been giving Jaffe the same kind of "background" briefing he...
To save time while Item 3 (supervision of the armistice) was being thrashed out, the U.N. wanted another subcommittee appointed to work simultaneously on Item 4, which concerns exchange of prisoners. The Reds said only that they were taking it under advisement. By week's end, U.N. briefing officers...
Cryptic rumbles from the stove-heated conference tent at Panmunjom had U.N. correspondents baffled-and, for that matter, just about everybody else. As far as the newsmen could make out from the word given by the briefing officer, the U.N. subcommitteemen and their Communist opposite numbers had almost agreed on...
Last July, when the truce talks got under way, the camp was pitched in an apple orchard which was off limits to U.N. correspondents. A U.S. briefing officer appeased their curiosity by showing them an apple from the orchard-the size of a walnut. There was an immediate spate of...