Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With sleepy-eyed cordiality Ed Pauley greeted the six U.S. correspondents who clambered aboard his train at Kaesong, a U.S.-occupied town just south of Korea's 38th parallel. The reporters poised pencils for a walloping exposé of conditions in the Soviet never-never land. But President Truman's special reparations representative just smiled his warmest smile, and, like a well-behaved guest, paid the kindest compliments to the Russians who had been his hosts for five days...
...Americans balked over what, in effect, was a political purge in favor of pro-Russian parties. Since! there was no meeting of minds on that issue, the Americans shifted to another. Would the Russians consent to "remove the 38th degree parallel boundary as an obstacle to the reunification of Korea?" The Russians refused to consider...
...paying no evident attention to the oratory, which has much the flavor of a political campaign in Chicago or Seattle. In America's Korea, as in Chicago or Seattle, free speech has been the rule since the U.S. Army arrived last fall to take charge below the 38th parallel. In fact, U.S. insistence on free speech for Koreans has become the newest impaling post of Soviet-American relations...
...Matter of Semantics. Seven weeks ago a delegation of 120 Russians came down from their zone north of the 38th parallel. They were led by rotund Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, who said: "The Soviet people warmly support ... a free way of life ... for the Korean people." Inside the pillared grey walls of Seoul's Duk Soo Palace, General Shtykov and four top comrades began a series of talks with five U.S. officers, led by strapping Major General Archibald V. Arnold...
With an average of 33 percent favoring blanket adoption of the proposals, the House votes ran parallel to each other, while a 50 percent all-yes in the Union, where one glass of milk is the regular portion, emphasized student concern with that item elsewhere...