Word: subcommitteemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wearing a green nylon flight jacket, with a frayed cigar clamped in his teeth and an expression of grim satisfaction on his face, Major General Henry Hodes, one of the two U.N. subcommitteemen at Panmunjom, strode out of the conference tent. Allied newsmen trotted up eagerly. "Well," said the general, "we're agreed in principle on that thing...
Cryptic rumbles from the stove-heated conference tent at Panmunjom had U.N. correspondents baffled-and, for that matter, just about everybody else. As far as the newsmen could make out from the word given by the briefing officer, the U.N. subcommitteemen and their Communist opposite numbers had almost agreed on item 2 of the agenda, the ceasefire line.* There only remained to be settled, it seemed, the relatively minor question of who, if anybody, would hold Kaesong. What, then, was aU the scuffling about in the conference tent? At week's end Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, chief...
General Hodes and Admiral Burke, the U.N. subcommitteemen, made three efforts to break the Kaesong deadlock. First, they repeated a previous offer to evacuate U.N.-held islands north of the 38th; they pointed out that this, plus their already proffered withdrawals on the central and eastern fronts, should be adequate compensation for Kaesong. The Reds refused. Next, the U.N. negotiators offered to pass the buffer zone directly through Kaesong-in other words, to make it a neutral city held by neither side. Again, the Reds refused. Finally, in mild desperation, the U.N. suggested that the line be left to drift...
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