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...initiative." Red China was ordering a cease-fire on all fronts. Further, by Dec. 1, Chinese troops would retire to positions 12½ miles behind the lines they occupied on Nov. 7. 1959. If this promise is actually carried out. it would mean, for some Chinese units, a pullback of more than 60 miles. These decisions. Peking continued, ''represent a most sincere effort" to achieve ''a speedy termination of the Sino-Indian conflict, a reopening of peaceful negotiations, and a peaceful settlement of the boundary question.'' War or peace, the message concluded...
Without Meaning. Even if Nehru were prepared to give away Ladakh in return for a Chinese pullback elsewhere...
Until recently, it could be said of Moscow and China, as German Field Marshal Moltke said of his own armies, that they marched separately but hit together. They no longer do. Moscow's Cuban pullback and China's invasion of India almost certainly happened without consultation. They may be stuck with each other's actions, but they no longer seem to coordinate them in advance. In the future, it will be up to Western strategists to take advantage of the fact that, while Russia and China can do immense harm separately, they are as of now neither...
...Pullback. In straining to avoid violence, the Administration appeared weak and hesitant. It had tried three times to get Meredith registered; it had failed three times. Now it set out on a fourth attempt, and Attorney General Kennedy upped the escorting force level to two dozen marshals. Late in the week they set out in a motor caravan from the U.S. naval air station at Memphis, Tenn., 80 miles from Oxford. But Barnett, meanwhile, had also mustered stronger forces...
...Konrad Adenauer and Britain's Harold Macmillan in a difficult Western summit meeting. To a ruffled Premier De Gaulle he explained that the U.S. is basically in sympathy with French attempts to end the struggle in Algeria. But in private session he argued adamantly against France's pullback of support from NATO'S integrated defense (see FOREIGN NEWS), agreed to disagree until more staff work could be done on the problem...