Word: truce
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...Truce is not something front-line soldiers are trained for; the feeling was strange. Across the front, the Chinese and North Koreans had their orders; they worked hard to convince the U.N. soldiers that the armistice was an occasion for fun & frolic...
...hesitantly approached the post-truce political conference to try to settle the future of Korea, the U.S. was being jerked and stretched like a hawser in a great diplomatic...
...Grisly Hours. Only in a few places did G.I.s disobey the Eighth Army order not to mingle with the enemy. Even then, it was not to "celebrate." A few days before the truce, marines on the western front had been engaged in a fierce fight with the Chinese. Two hundred bodies, all but a few of them Chinese, lay on East Berlin Hill and in the valley around the outpost. At the first dawn of peace, a handful of Chinese started up the slope toward Marine positions 25 yards away. Carefully the Reds wound through the debris of war: unexploded...
...truce in Korea increased the French government's hankering for a settlement in Indo-China. Said Premier Laniel last week: "France is now the only great nation at war, pursuing ... a battle in contempt of her own interests." In Paris, three alternatives are being examined by the Laniel cabinet: 1) continuing with the Navarre plan of fluid attack in the hope of finally wiping out the main resistance; 2) building up the native Vietnamese army to a point where it can take over the country's defense; 3) opening direct negotiations with Viet Minh Leader Ho Chi Minh...
...reluctant to do. The third alternative is vigorously opposed by non-Communist Indo-Chinese, who fear that Red flags will be flying in Hanoi and Saigon within hours of a political armistice. The non-Communist Indo-Chinese have their own plan: complete independence within the French Union. Without that, truce talk for them is premature and cowardly...