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...storm cloud over Panmunjom last week. The Communist explainers would not give the 14,600 Chinese P.W.s another chance to humiliate them (TIME, Oct. 26). They insisted on talking to the 7,800 North Korean P.W.s, who wouldn't talk to them; the Communists hoped thereby that the onus might be shifted to the other side. All week the Indians urged the Communists to get on with questioning the now triumphant Chinese, who laughed in their compounds, "Where are the esteemed explainers? Do take us to see them." Meanwhile, all five members of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission argued...
...Mayor Brauer of Hamburg, has waged a one-man campaign to remind Germans of the enormity of the Nazi crimes against Jews, helped campaign for a restitution payment ($822 million, most of it to be paid to the Israel government), persuaded thousands of Germans to sign declarations acknowledging the onus of national guilt, and launched a campaign among schoolchildren to plant 10,000 olive trees in Israel...
Since the play hinges on Jeeter, Martin's share of onus for the show's failure is greatest. His role is a delicate one because the curtain scenes in acts two and three feature more drama than comedy. About to lose his land in act two, Jeeter pleads with the new owner to let him stay on; and at the end, his wife dead, he realizes that the land is no longer his. These scenes are maudlin bathos without a sympathetic treatment of Jeeter, and Martin's un-modulated buffoonery throughout the play kills audience feeling for him. His Jeeter...
...obtain uncontested control" of the Red-controlled stockades. He ringed the compounds with tanks, machine guns and infantry, began building smaller, more manageable stockades (500 men to each), into which the prisoners will be dispersed. Two rifle companies of British Commonwealth troops were shipped to Koje, to spread the onus of disciplining the prisoners among as many nations as possible. Koje's 80,000 P.W.s were pinning down a six-nation tank and infantry force almost a division strong...
Said Ridgway's headquarters: "So the cycle continues. Every step forward will be followed by a step backward until Moscow is convinced that the final decision for Korea must be made without delay." This statement, designed to put all the onus on Moscow, unintentionally revealed the state of mind that now prevails in Tokyo and in Washington: the U.S. no longer has the initiative. Peace, stalemate or war-and how much or how little of either-is Moscow's choice, to be made at Moscow's convenience...