Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joy took in the scene, wide-eyed but cool, then sent allied correspondents and photographers to get evidence of the Red violation, photograph the enemy soldiers. At the council table Joy noted the affair formally "for the record." That afternoon's session lasted only seven minutes...
...Admiral Joy promptly reported the violation to General Ridgway in Tokyo. If the Reds had any doubts left about U.S. firmness at Kaesong, Ridgway cleared them up fast. He called off next day's conference, sent a coldly stern message to the Red commanders, North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai: ". . . I now invite your attention to this flagrant violation of the assurances which I required and which you promised. [Until] a satisfactory explanation of this violation and assurance of a nonrecurrence are received . . . the United Nations Command delegation will remain...
...fast for a buffer along the actual front-line positions; the Reds stuck to their demand for a buffer zone straddling the 38th parallel. Day after day, both sides presented "clarifications" of their aims. Repeating the U.N.'s view that the parallel is an insecure defense line, Admiral Joy three times asked North Korean General Nam II, chief Communist delegate: "Do you or do you not agree that the security of his forces is the responsibility of each commander during a military armistice?" Three times, Nam II dodged the question...
...Then Joy advanced a new argument. It is not only the ground positions that should be considered, he said; allied air and naval strength now blanket all of North Korea up to the Yalu. In view of this, the U.N. would actually be justified in demanding a cease-fire line considerably to the north of its forward positions on the ground. The Red radio exaggerated Joy's talking point, made it sound as if the U.N. formally demanded a truce line far north of the front-line positions (which it does not). According to the Peking radio, Nam rejected...
...Mankind, by its genesis, is revolutionary; mankind redeemed by Christ is ceaselessly storming original sin and the sin of the world whatever it may be ... Redemption is a perpetual fight, a perpetual effort of mankind against the inner evil that strangles it. Then why have these songs of joy and deliverance, started maybe a bit clumsily by the great socialist leaders, met only with condemnation amongst us, contented hearts and closed minds that we are? ... Why have we, who are living no more the lot of the poor, lost the meaning of the word 'Saviour...