Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nam II & Co. rejected Switzerland as a suitable neutral custodian, apparently on no other ground than that the U.N.'s espousal of Switzerland ("a neutral status," Harrison said, "which is obviously unsurpassed") rendered that country unacceptable to the Reds...
When the Red delegation, led by North Korea's dapper and durable Nam Il, and the U.N. delegation, led by Lieut. General William K. Harrison, sat down in the conference hut at Panmunjom, the atmosphere was cold, correct and businesslike. There were no smiles, no nods, no handshakes. There had been prior agreement that prisoners willing to go home should be repatriated after a ceasefire, that others should be placed in custody of a neutral nation pending final disposition. Beyond that, there was no progress...
...truce talks had been resumed only because the Communists had promised to be more conciliatory on the subject of forced repatriation. But a revealing sentence of Nam Il's showed how unchanging their position really is. "The apprehensions of the P.W.s about the question of their own repatriation," said he, "can only be eliminated after an appropriate time and after explanations are made to them by the side concerned." In other words, the whole purpose of postponing their release and of putting them in neutral custody is to give the Communists (and the Communists alone) a chance to "eliminate...
...never seen the Communists so eager." The U.N. bided its time while Mark Clark's headquarters in Tokyo checked strategy with Washington. Finally Lieut. General William K. Harrison, the senior U.N. delegate and weary veteran of past Communist filibusters, sent a letter to North Korea's Nam Il, agreeing once more to talk truce...
Meanwhile, North Korea's Nam II, who had not been seen in the flesh since October, dispatched a letter to the U.N. calling for full-scale resumption of truce talks. Nam echoed Chou En-lai's line that 1) no Communist prisoners are really unwilling to accept a return to Communist control; 2) if some seem unwilling, because of "intimidation and oppression," they should be put in custody of a "neutral" country pending final disposition. There was no doubt that this vague proposal could lead to difficulties-if the Communists wanted it to. The basic question was whether...