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...trapped between an enemy who was willing to settle and a principal ally who saw the settlement as ruinous. At Panmunjom, the Communists were presumably all set to sign an armistice. But in Seoul, stubborn old Syngman Rhee postponed a cease-fire indefinitely by setting free 27,000 North Korean war prisoners that the U.N. had promised to turn over to a neutral commission (see below). By his act, Syngman Rhee all but solved the problem of forced repatriation so far as North Koreans were concerned. He certainly proved that they did not want to go back. But he also...
...sequence of actions creates a new diplomatic atmosphere, requiring new diplomatic responses. Whatever their motives, the Kremlin's new bosses acted with suppleness and skill. In his last years, Joseph Stalin's stubborn inflexibility had actually served the West: his intransigeance over Germany drew West Germany to the West; his Korean invasion bestirred the West to rearm; his willfulness drove out Tito. Stalin's successors, without any evident change in aims, have brought some mobility and subtlety back to the Kremlin...
...desperately attempting to block an armistice, Syngman Rhee had just about used up all the arguments he knew. Last week South Korea's stubborn old man used an uglier and more dangerous tool...
...score of nations and states which make up the Soviet Union, the most unruly is the Ukraine. Over the years since the October Revolution, Moscow has set out again and again to Russianize Ukrainian culture and to collectivize the rich Ukrainian wheatlands, only to be met by passive, stubborn resistance from the peasants. Compromise on these occasions is usually signaled by a change of Russian administrators and a brief bow to Ukrainian culture. Recently the Kremlin began one of its periodic turnabouts...
...horse that helped him prove it was a stubborn bay colt named Jamie K., the same Jamie K. that had come within a neck of beating him in the Preakness, and with the same Eddie Arcaro up. In the Belmont last week, after a moderately paced (1:39⅓) mile, Jamie K. and the Dancer left the others behind and made it a two-horse race. Jamie K. had the lead with three-eighths of a mile to go. Could the Dancer catch...