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...Korean armistice was signed 19 months ago, U.S. reconnaissance air crews carefully photographed the much-bombed North Korean airfields to document an important fact: no Red jets were based south of the Yalu. Since then Russian-made jets have swarmed into North Korean bases. The truce terms specifically forbid all such buildups, but by last week this and other Red violations had become so flagrant that the U.S. and the United Nations Command decided to scrap the futile pretense of truce inspection and supervision...
...Control. During the armistice talks, one lengthy argument revolved around how to enforce the truce terms that banned any military buildups. Replacements were allowed but not reinforcements, so that neither side could swell its strength by a single additional plane, man or gun. To make sure that the terms were observed, the U.N. suggested that neutral truce teams have the right to inspect any place in Korea at any time by land or air. The Communists, however, refused to permit free inspection of their territory. They compromised by permitting truce teams to operate in five specified check points. The Neutral...
...built a new spur line two miles away, over which illegal arms roll unhindered from Manchuria. At the Manpo check point on the Yalu, neutral inspectors see nothing but empty freight cars returning to Manchuria-while loaded trains cross into North Korea over a nearby bridge barred to the truce teams...
...Commission? Last year even the neutral Swiss and Swedes grew indignant enough to criticize the Red tactics, which, they reported, made truce inspection in North Korea "completely illusory." An official Swiss-Swedish report said: "All efforts [of] the Swedish and Swiss members of the Inspections Teams . . . have been constantly and persistently frustrated." In contrast, "the U.N. Command side . . . threw itself open to full control...
...this simple expression of the obvious touched off extraordinary reactions. Asian anti-Communists were notably cheered by Dulles' speech. The anti-Communist Hong Kong newspaper, Sing Tao Jih Pao, said that Dulles brought "joy and comfort." Other Asian voices recalled the Korean truce, the Indo-China truce and the Tachen Islands evacuation, and said that Dulles' announcement on the offshore islands between Formosa and the mainland indicated that the U.S. had finally made up its mind to take a stand. The Dulles sentence that most impressed Asians: "If the non-Communist Asians ever come to feel that their...