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President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles rightly stressed that the truce was a beginning rather than an end-the beginning of a new effort to bring peace and justice to Asia. The success of that new effort depended in part on how the nation and its policymakers understood the past -including the Korean...
That sums up the last two years of the Korean war. The men who died fighting it did not die in vain. Even the truce, which represents a long-term failure of U.S. will, is far better in terms of justice than if the Reds had been allowed to overrun Korea...
...Truce came to Korea in a stark, deliberately underplayed ceremony...
...Panmunjom, shortly before 10 a.m. (the hour fixed for the signing), nervous little Communist sentries in baggy pants and wilting red epaulettes scurried about, brushing off the board walk where their masters were to tread. The bleak, new truce building, hastily and especially erected by the Reds, smelled of fresh pine. Outside, it still showed the marks of two big Picasso-style peace doves, put up by the Reds, taken down at Mark Clark's demand. Inside it was stifling hot. Sweating U.N. observers and correspondents, including officers from each national contingent, filed in and sat on metal chairs...
...year-old fountain pen. North Korea's starchy little Nam II, sweating profusely in his heavy tunic, his chest displaying a row of gold medals the size of tangerines, took his seat at the other table, signing for the enemy. Each man signed 18 copies of the main truce documents (six each in English, Korean, Chinese), which aides carried back & forth. The rumble of artillery still rolled through the building. Flashbulbs blazed and cameras whirred as the two chief delegates silently wrote. When they had finished, West Pointer Harrison and Nam II, schoolteacher in uniform, rose and departed without...