Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force communiqués," wrote Walker, "have become a total farce . . . Handouts [state] that 314 enemy were killed. In another instance, it was ninetynine. But a . . . ten-year-old boy . . . knows . . . no air force can possibly know exactly how many people it has killed...
Korea: The only basis of a solution, aid the communiqué, is a "free and independent Korea," and the conferees hoped that Communist China would "take a similar attitude." "For our part we are ready, as we have always been, to seek an end to the hostilities by means of negotiation," under the principles of the U.N. charter...
Admitting Communist China to the U.N.: "The two governments differ," said the communiqué frankly. Britain is for it even in the face of what Red China has done in Korea; the U.S. is opposed...
Underneath this sonorous note, which covered another discord in the U.S.-British voice, was Britain's known willingness, when the talks began, to give Formosa to the Communists in a peace settlement-an attitude that many Americans labeled appeasement, no matter what protestations the communiqué made. The U.S. insisted that it would not be blackmailed by Mao into sacrificing Chiang Kai-shek for what it was sure could only be a temporary peace in the Far East. Attlee reluctantly accepted this point of view...
When all was said & done, the communiqué reflected the situation of allies who had agreed to disagree and still remain friends. Harry Truman had not brought Clement Attlee over to his views, although he had reassured him on some points; Attlee had not brought Truman around to his views, although the President had been reassured that Britain wanted to stand by the U.S. The talks and the communiqué also indicated an apparent disposition on Mr. Truman's part to search for some area of negotiation with Red China, though clearly he was not ready to toss...