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...Russians still talked optimism. Said Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, head of the Russian delegation to the Joint Commission: "There is no stalemate that may not be broken." Everybody wondered how and when the break would come...
Facing each other across the green-covered table sat the two heads of the Joint Commission for Korea, lean, blue-jawed U.S. Major General Albert E. Brown, and a bulky, red-faced Russian, Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, who had stubbornly represented the Russians at last year's meeting. They were a pair...
...Shtykov tells this story on himself: "When I was a boy, I was known as the worst boy in town. I used to bite people. One day my old grandmother was sitting weaving a sandal. Suddenly I bit her. She threw me over her knees and beat me with the sandal until my backside ran red with blood. Then I never bit anybody any more. I became the best boy in town...
Hard Question. Reformed Biter Shtykov and his colleagues on the commission had some heavy chewing to do on what seemed an indigestible Korean political situation. How, for instance, could the occupiers deal with Korea's welter of 200 political groups? Wearily commented a U.S. official: "There are three times more people registered for party membership in Korea than there is population in the country...
Next morning the Russians assembled at Seoul's railroad station. The Americans saw them off. Generals Arnold and Shtykov chatted pleasantly for half an hour. Vodka was poured. As the Soviet train pulled north toward Korea's iron curtain, the last Russian visible, standing in the rear door of the end coach, was a Tommy-gunner...