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...Truce in Korea...
...TRUCE TALKS Agreement This week, seemingly beyond reasonable doubt, a Korean armistice was imminent. The U.S. had outlasted South Korea's Syngman Rhee in the battle of wills. And the Communists appeared so tremulous for a truce that their anxiety stood out on them almost visibly-like drops of sweat...
...work together for the realization ... of our common objective, namely a free, independent and unified Korea . . ." None of this formally committed Rhee to anything, but Robertson was said to have private assurances from Rhee in writing that he would not try to go it alone, or impede a truce...
Back to the Hut. Meanwhile, the Communist truce negotiators came scrambling back to Panmunjom to see what the U.N. had to offer in the way of guarantees. At the first meeting since Rhee liberated the anti-Communist North Koreans last month, the truce hut was stifling hot. The U.N. delegates fanned themselves with memo pads, and mopped their faces with soggy handkerchiefs; the Reds simply sat and sweated in their heavy uniforms. The proceedings were secret. The first session lasted only three minutes, but it was followed by another longer one, and by a third next day. A truce...
...frame-up, freed the doctors who had been unjustly tortured; 5) a year-long purge in Georgia was ended with the appointment of a new Premier and new party secretaries; 6) the Communists in Korea announced that they were ready to make important concessions to get a truce; 7) in Austria and in East Germany there was a switch from military to civilian control; 8) the unexpected and damaging June 17 riots in East Germany were followed by confession of error and a promise to make life easier for East Germany; 9) in Latvia and the Ukraine, Communist Party shake...