Word: deadlocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the last heading comes the question of softness to Communism, of which the confused deadlock of the Korean war was the most persuasive symptom and the Alger Hiss case was the most clinically revealing symptom...
...show that the larder was not so full as it seemed, and that distant places like Korea or Indo-China were threatening the safety of the safest, newest farmhouse roof. He kept hammering away at high taxes, inflation, high prices, the explosive uncertainties and frustrating deadlock of the Korean...
...Korea last week the U.N. suddenly seemed desperately eager to break the deadlock in the truce talks. At the heart of the impasse is the question of repatriating North Korean and Chinese prisoners. The Communists want them all back. The U.N. has taken the position that no prisoner should be forced back to Red territory against his Will. Last week the U.N. senior delegate, Lieut. General William K. Harrison, brought out three new proposals, and asked the Communists to pick any one. Technically, the proposals stood firm on the U.N. position, but actually they came close to scrapping...
Last week the U.S. was seriously considering a new policy of its own which might break the deadlock. The main British weapon against Iran has been the blockade. It has left the Iranians somewhat in the position of Tantalus, who was up to his neck in water but, though dying of thirst, was not able to drink it. The Iranians are up to their necks in oil but, though nearly bankrupt, they cannot sell it, because the British stop any ship that tries to carry the oil to market. The U.S. has tacitly supported the blockade; the new policy would...
...make any serious attempt to seize power in Iran (they may have decided that it is smarter to stay in opposition and sabotage the government instead of being saddled with government responsibility themselves), Iran is becoming a riper and more inviting plum for the Reds every week the deadlock continues. Said one Briton last week: "After all, it might be better to lose Anglo-Iranian and keep Iran...