Word: truce
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...Pressures. Misgivings about the Korean truce had dogged U.S. policymakers ever since last March 30, when Red China's Chou Enlai, just back from Moscow, modified the Communist stand on forced prisoner repatriation and prompted reopening of the Panmunjom talks. Where the U.S. hesitated, lest basic principles be betrayed, its allies, led by Britain and India, urged...
...truce in Korea seemed to be at hand and, for an end to the bloodletting, the U.S. would be grateful. But, as the negotiators at Panmunjom signed an agreement on the exchange of prisoners and prepared to issue a cease-fire order (see INTERNATIONAL), there was little U.S. elation. Presidential Aide Sherman Adams, delivering a commencement address at St. Lawrence University, struck a note of sober warning. "At the moment of a Korean truce," he said, "we shall be in danger. There will be nothing in the terms of such a truce which will give any permanent relief from...
...trip last month to the Middle East and South Asia, Secretary of State Foster Dulles was startled to find that India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was convinced that the U.S. really did not want a truce. Dulles persuaded Nehru that the U.S. was sincere in.its insistence on "honorable" terms. Nehru relayed his own changed opinion of U.S. intentions to Peking. From that point on, the negotiators at Panmunjom swiftly came to terms. The prisoner agreement as finally signed was, in essence, Nehru's plan...
...demilitarized zone," and might even launch a wildcat attack of his own. His men are on guard at all the prison camps except Camp Eight, where balking Chinese prisoners are kept; ROK guards might turn loose all North Korean prisoners who refuse repatriation. Rhee's delegate to the truce talks, Major General Choi Duk Shin, boycotted one session, and Rhee commended him for "high patriotism." General Choi told correspondents: "People ask me if we can fight alone and win. I tell them you do not fight only when you know you can win. You fight because you have...
...truce team got set for a double-barreled showdown, and both barrels were loaded. While the Communists mulled over the latest U.N. proposal, South Koreans attacked it (see above). The negotiators could take comfort in one thought: except for the Koreans, all the U.S.'s major allies had okayed the plan...