Word: panmunjon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correspondent for the Afro-American, whose circulation is greater than any other Negro newspaper, he has covered the Asian Socialist Conference, the Korean peace negotiations at Panmunjon, and the Asian-African conference at Bandung. He has traveled as extensively as any American reporter can behind the Iron Curtain...
Peking radio promptly dismissed the list as a "fake." But three days later, U.N. suspicions were confirmed. Australian-born Wilfred Burchett, correspondent for the French Communist paper, L'Humanité, wandered into Panmunjon to chat with U.N. correspondents. Communist Burchett, whom many U.S. newsmen remembered as a competent reporter for Australian Associated Press during the Pacific war, had previously acted as a news "leak" for the Communists. This time, he carefully let slip the fact that the Chinese were still holding an unspecified number of U.S. airmen who had allegedly been shot down over Chinese territory beyond the Yalu...
Villers moved that the group declare itself in favor of "the Indian resolution on Korea in the United Nations, but that if some agreement cannot be reached on that basis, the U.S. should consider the possibility of an immediate cease-fire, subject to the safeguards already agreed upon at Panmunjon, with the implementation of the U.N. position on repatriation left to post cease-fire discussion...
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