Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EAST. A Korean solution would have to be fitted into a general, unified U.S. policy toward the Far East. The Truman Administration's failure to view the Far East as essentially a single problem caused catastrophe in China and deadlock in Korea and Indo-China...
Wars are sometimes stalemated for military reasons, e.g., the Western front in World War I, which was deadlocked for three years and nine months by the then tactical superiority of the defensive and by the fact that the military potentials of the enemies were almost evenly matched. Korea is not that kind of deadlock. Present military technology gives an advantage to the offensive, as was the case in World War II. The U.N. nations have a military potential many times China...
...deadlock is reached in the election of a Pope. A British cardinal, between sessions, is mulling over the case of George Arthur Rose, a divinity student expelled some 20 years earlier. Suddenly the cardinal realizes that a great injustice has been done to a man of extraordinary spiritual gifts. His mind flashes a connection between the problem of Rose and the problem of the papacy. As a last resort, he suggests that, if a Pope cannot be found within the priesthood, why not without? The cardinals are struck by the suggestion. An investigation is made. Rose is found worthy...
None of these alternatives offered any easy way out of the Korean deadlock, and Ike was the last to expect to find the way easy. The purpose of his trip is to survey all of the possibilities with a completely fresh eye. Whether he decides on any one of the three broad courses, or some combination of the three, the survey itself will help put the Korean war back in proper perspective. The year-long negotiations at Panmunjom, and even the debate in the U.N. over the issue of repatriating prisoners (see INTERNATIONAL), has lulled many a U.S. citizen into...
...Women, reacting against the Korean deadlock, swarmed...