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...Establishment of a 20-mile-deep buffer zone from five miles south of the 38th parallel on the west to a point 15 miles north on the east-roughly paralleling the line now held by the U.N., and requiring the Communists to do the moving back...
...once injuries have healed, the trainer must see to it that a player goes through the proper corrective exercises to compensate for lost flesh and weakened muscles. Naturally, throughout the whole season he must watch over the condition and equipment of his men. The trainer also acts as a buffer between the coach and the doctor, who has the final say on whether or not a boy is ready to play...
India, Rau continued, would propose to the Assembly this week a cease-fire in Korea and maybe a demilitarized buffer zone between the U.N. and Communist forces. Rau had also received word from New Delhi that Mao and other Red bigwigs were in close conference with Indian Ambassador Kavalam Nadhava Panikkar, whose anti-Western slant pulls Indian policy towards "neutralism." Panikkar had reported that Peking would negotiate on two conditions: equality in conferences, which seemed to mean recognition by the U.S.; and discussion of all major Far Eastern problems, which seemed to mean acceptance of Communist demands for Korea...
...Lake Success, appeasement was in the air. The British were in a mood to make a deal, and their phrase for it was "buffer state." Their hope was that the Chinese Reds could be persuaded to withdraw peacefully to the Manchurian border, provided that a large adjoining strip of North Korea was made into a neutral zone, administered, presumably, by the United Nations...
...fallacy of the buffer state was the fallacy of any settlement arrived at by agreement with the Communists; the agreement was good only as long as it suited an aggressor to keep it. In the Sudetenland and at Munich, the world had had just such a lesson...