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...preliminary to anything. And from New Delhi, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who had been kept posted on the Bermuda arrangements, repeated that the U.S. still wants "deeds, not words" before sitting down to talk with the Kremlin's new masters. He specified three deeds: a truce in Korea, an end to aggression against Laos in Indo-China and an Austrian peace treaty...
Somewhat shaken by British and other foreign reaction to its strong stand at Panmunjom. the U.S. took time out. The U.N. Command first asked for a three-day recess in the truce talks; before this interlude expired, the U.N. took an additional five-day recess. Last week General Harrison, the senior U.N. delegate, conferred again in Tokyo with U.N. Commander Mark Clark, who was receiving instructions from Washington...
Give & Take. On other matters there could be give & take. The tentative U.N. proposal was that Indian troops alone would guard the prisoners, that the other four nations would supervise. The U.N. was now willing that a post-truce political conference should discuss the fate of unwilling prisoners, but not endlessly: there would be a cutoff point after which the remaining prisoners would be automatically freed...
This week the truce delegations met again, after the eight-day recess, and the U.S. proposals were put forward in executive (secret) session. Then the negotiators took another recess until June...
...Winston Churchill said flatly that no "difference of principle" remains to be settled in the truce talks at Panmunjom, and implied that the U.S. is haggling over technicalities. India's Nehru publicly announced that the Communist eight-point proposal (TIME, May 18) is better than the U.N. Command's. A good part of the European and Asiatic world seemed to share these views...