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...Korean Truce...
TIME asks: "Under present conditions is truce on the same side as right?" Obviously, to all those conscious of the legacy of Valley Forge, the answer must be no ... For Americans of the Valley Forge heritage . . . it would seem to me that the promulgation of the current truce terms without so much as consulting the most valiant contenders for world freedom in the world today is a blot on the escutcheon of moral America from which it indeed may never recover...
...Quebec, from New York to the Mississippi-and in the end it involved the fleets of both England and France. It progressed slowly: the British held New York for years, and months often passed without major incident. It was polite in tone: prisoners were duly exchanged, flags of truce honored, and correct notes passed between opposing commanders (Washington formally returned General Sir William Howe's dog to him when it was captured by Americans at Germantown...
Back home the people got mad. What had begun as an idealistic adventure became a begrudged duty. General Van Fleet stoutly insisted that the enemy could be defeated militarily inside Korea, but once the enemy insisted on truce talk (which went on & off fruitlessly for two of the three years), U.N. instructions were to protect their lines and avoid excessive casualties...
Eventually the whole mess, truce talks and all, was dropped into the threshing machine of a U.S. presidential election. Bitterness overflowed against Korea, the allies, the U.N. and all its works. "The war in Korea," cried Senator James P. Kern of Missouri, "is a stalemate, a treadmill, a yo-yo war . . . Our allies take the cash. Our boys take the bullets...