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...Security Council, including Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and seven other top advisers. Next morning the President made his decision on the next step. He said he was "moderately hopeful" that it would bring peace in Korea. The plan was to have General Matthew Ridgway, as U.N. commander, invite the enemy to a field parley...
...Friday the details were drawn up. Within three hours, Ridgway was carrying out his instructions. Nearly 100 radio stations beamed his words, in English, Korean and Chinese, to "the Commander in Chief, Communist Forces in Korea...
...armistice providing for the cessation of hostilities and all acts of armed force in Korea, with adequate guarantees for the maintenance of such an armistice. Upon the receipt of word from you that such a meeting is desired I shall be prepared to name my representative . . ." The meeting, Ridgway suggested, could be held aboard the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia in the harbor off Wonsan, a port 70 miles deep in Communist-held territory...
Every Asiatic listening post in Allied hands was tuned to Communist wavelengths. But as the weekend ticked away the silence was broken only by discouraging sounds. The Peking radio slapped at Ridgway for acting like "a victor calling upon the other side to surrender." A few more hours passed; a still more disturbing noise: the words of General Chu Teh, commander in chief of all Red Chinese forces. "Unless American aggressors are withdrawn from Korea," he said, "there is no way out." Was that to be the enemy's answer...
Their return to full participation in civilian life was authorized by General Ridgway. Fifty thousand more Japanese will eventually be allowed to come out of enforced retirement. Likely to remain banned indefinitely: 20,000 war criminals, officers of terrorist societies and members of the "thought police...