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...sounded like just another Communist accusation. A U.N. night-flying plane, said the Reds, had "made machine-gunning" over the Kaesong neutral zone. Five U.N. colonels (four U.S., one South Korean) were dispatched to investigate. This time, the Red charge proved to be true...
...ground; the Reds did not claim that any person had been hit. In addition to this evidence, U.N. officers had other proof - the record kept by their own radar operators. At about the time the Communists said the attack occurred, U.N. radar had spotted a plane over Kaesong. Investigation showed that it was a U.S. B-26 of the 3rd Bomb Group. The pilot's story: he had fired on Kaesong, mistaking it for another target 20 miles away...
...threats and denunciations impressed nobody, whether it was played off in Russian, Polish or English. Against the West's new and surprising unity, the Communists had lost the power to paralyze, terrorize and delay. Not even the frank threat from the Peking Radio that the fate of the Kaesong armistice talks might hang on events at San Francisco could crack the unanimity of the non-Communist world. Up stood Asians, Buddhists and Moslems alike. Up stood small nations, which had trembled before at the first hint of Russian displeasure. Up stood those who had their own disputes with each...
After two contentious, fruitless months on history's stage, the ancient, battle-scarred city of Kaesong last week seemed ready to be moved into the wings. There was still a chance that the cease-fire talks, broken off by the Reds, might be picked up again-but in all probability not at Kaesong...
...stream of Communist invective and charges of U.N. truce violations continued last week without letup. The Peking radio frankly admitted what the free world had suspected for weeks-that the breakdown at Kaesong was closely linked to the signing of the Japanese treaty (see INTERNATIONAL). The Reds had obviously hoped to use Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung...