Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home for the Holidays. At week's end, the President flew home to Missouri (in June, when he was visiting the family's big, white, old clapboard house in Independence, the Communists had marched across the 38th parallel). His social schedule was so crowded that, as he put it, "it's almost like my day after day in Washington. But I like it, because it's home." He showed up at a Masonic dinner in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, and found himself involved in a good-natured disagreement...
...probability that the Communists would strike below the 38th parallel, in spite of all hopes to the contrary, was rapidly building up toward a certainty. One sign was Peking's blunt rebuff of the U.N.'s eager cease-fire committee (see INTERNATIONAL). Another was the slow but ominous massing of Chinese forces in front of the Eighth Army and on its right flank. A third was General MacArthur's warning that 150,000 North Koreans had been regrouped into well-equipped fighting divisions, presumably for service in South Korea. A fourth was a broadcast from Pyongyang...
...many private talks among the delegates. India's white-thatched Sir Senegal Rau buzzed up & down the corridors at Lake Success, in & out of at least a dozen meetings. Red China and Red Korea had answered Rau's petition for a Communist military halt at the 38th parallel by sending North Korean troops across the parallel (TIME, Dec. 18). India's undeterred envoy now proposed to ask for a ceasefire...
...preparing to defend all of South Korea. But neither was it planning to quit the peninsula altogether-at least not now. During its retreat, the Eighth Army stood first on "Line Able" below Pyongyang, and when that failed to hold, withdrew to "Line Baker," just below the 38th parallel. Since this line would become untenable as soon as the sluggish Chinese were ready to strike, the next move would be to "Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan (see map) which U.N. forces still hold...
These considerations may or may not deter the Communists-regrouped North Koreans as well as Chinese-from venturing very far below the 38th parallel. If they do stop, South Korea may be spared the horrors of another Red occupation and some-though not all-of U.S. and U.N. prestige lost in recent weeks may be restored...