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...talks. Chou En-lai called the Indian delegates in for tea and gave them a list of instructions (e.g., you must not tell the Indian press what is going on). Red China haggled endlessly over details and often boycotted the talks without notice-particularly when India's truce-supervising General Thimayya made some decision in favor of the U.N. in Korea...
...Arab-Israeli war, which the Arabs lost but the Jews did not win, ended only on paper. In five years of truce, some 500 Israelis and an uncounted number of Arabs have been killed or wounded in fierce border clashes which the U.N. and its armistice teams are powerless to prevent. Some in recent months have assumed the gory proportion of massacres-Kibya last October, when Jews killed 53 helpless Arabs, Scorpion Pass last March, when Arabs slew eleven helpless Jews. But those are only larger, remembered episodes in a situation that is worsening rapidly. Last week TIME correspondents concluded...
...kind of settlement is negotiated, the organization would be a firm deterrent to further attacks. If Indo-China were divided by some arbitrary line, any truce violations by the Communists could be branded as aggression and treated by collective action. On the other hand, if a whole free state of Indo-China were established, the pact would effectively aid in fighting possible aggression from China...
...division along some arbitrary geographical line, similar to that in Korea, that would separate the Communist and non-Communist sides. The second is a unified state, with its government chosen by free elections. While the first plan could be put into effect shortly following any cease-fire or truce agreement; the second would probably require a definite military victory against the Communists. For this reason, such efforts are opposed by the war-weary French. It leaves open the risk of a bigger war, perhaps one involving Communist China...
Bidault added that it was inconceivable for a conference taking place in the birthplace of the Red Cross not to take some action toward a humanitarian truce...