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...Final Summing-Up. Harry Truman answered Bridges. At his press conference the President did not argue the point; he merely affirmed that the U.S. could not bomb China without permission from the U.N. The U.S., he said, was not even considering making any such request. He still clung to the hope, he added, that the whole situation could be resolved by negotiation with the Red Chinese. Was this the Administration's only answer? Last week, after five weeks of vain waiting for the Chinese to agree to a cease-fire in Korea, the U.S. made a behind-the-scenes...
...Yongdung rail junction, outside Seoul, 20,000 refugees squatted in an area about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, waiting for a chance to clamber aboard freight trains. They strapped themselves to the sides of flatcars, clung to perilous footholds by slender strands of rope. On one engine, a woman wedged herself atop a steam valve to keep warm, not realizing that when the train started moving she would inevitably freeze and topple...
...three weeks of palaver the Indonesians had clung to their demand that...
...Element of Fear." In Kashmir over the weekend, Nehru still clung to his confusion. He attributed Red China's attitude toward Tibet to an "element of fear" in Peking. He also saw the Peking regime as "the strongest government China has ever had in all her history ... [a] basic fact [that] cannot be ignored in formulation of policies by nations...
...Jordan doing? Got a really good man there, solid all the way." It was apparent that the second half had really done things to the huge Hickman. The white button-down shirt he were clung to his Dulky frame, wrinkling just a little as he bent forward...