Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy and his team reached Kaesong for the first session, they found the city taken over by armed Communists. By propaganda and picture, the Reds represented themselves as victors. Ridgway squelched that with an ultimatum; neutralize Kaesong or no more truce talks. The Reds succumbed. After some further jockeying for face, which Ridgway won hands down, the delegates got on to formulate an agenda...
Principles of War. A startling fact emerges from this unhappy story. Although Ridgway, Joy & Co. were outmaneuvered on occasion, they came off, on the whole, with a much better score than the Metternichs and Talleyrands of Washington. It now appears that the military men were right about the truce talks-military pressure should have been kept up against the Communists to dissuade them from stalling...
...joy from the vale to the height...
...Miller, Madison Sales and a sophomore Art French, were beginning to find holes in opposing lines, and confidence soared as Tufts moved into the Stadium. The varsity didn't disappoint a packed Soldier Field as it crushed the Elephants, 69 to 6, the largest Crimson score since 1891. But joy turned to concern as undergraduates glanced at their schedules and saw that Princeton was due in Cambridge. Princeton came, and the Tiger ripped John Harvard, winning 12 to 6. Then the trouble began...
...offspring, the Communist organ L'Humanité* ticked off the high spots of 20 days of anti-American activity in France. Item: at Revel, in Haute-Garonne, "300 peasants tore up surveyors' markers at a new military airbase." Item: at Saint-Quentin, "youth made a fire of joy out of the tracts and brochures of the [American] occupation." Item: at Toulouse, "street parades against the arrival of munitions . . . from across the Atlantic...