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Korea, June 1953. Dulles warned Red China through India's Prime Minister Nehru that the U.S. was prepared to attack Manchurian bases with atomic weapons if the Communists did not sign a truce agreement at Panmunjom. Although South Korea's President Syngman Rhee subsequently and illegally released 22,000 Chinese and North Korean P.W.s, the Communists decided to sign...
...Dienbienphu. Dulles returned believing the British had agreed to support him, but two weeks later "the British had had a change of heart." Nonetheless, Dulles now contends, his readiness to intervene in Indo-China gave the British and French a basis of strength from which they negotiated the truce agreement at Geneva. Shepley wrote: "Dulles had seen to it that the Chinese and the Soviets knew that the U.S. was prepared to act decisively to prevent the fall of all of Southeast Asia...
...timed British proposal that their country join the new Baghdad pact for a Middle East anti-Communist front. The U.N.'s patient mediator, Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, announced that both the Israelis and Egyptians are still blocking the latest plan for a border truce, and are both violating the armistice regularly. The governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria, making common cause of their enmity to the Baghdad pact, appointed Egypt's War Minister, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, as supreme commander of their three armies. Red-faced London officials admitted that Egypt had just...
...Oxford, his assurance helped him pull off a seven-month, $12,500, U.S. lecture tour at the age of 19. It also helped him to lose six elections for Parliament from 1935 to 1951; the only time Randolph managed to get into Commons was during the wartime political truce, when the Conservative Party let him have an uncontested seat...
...offer of a free pardon. The order stemmed from Malaya's recently elected popular government, which had the praiseworthy but perilous idea of starting the record of independent government by offering an amnesty to Communists. Last week the Communist guerrillas, after dickering briefly with the government about a truce , (they insisted on a Panmunjom-style international armistice commission, plus recognition as a legal political party), plainly showed that they preferred a shooting to a shouting...