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...waves were ink black with controversy. In the midst of it, Britain and the U.S. uncovered depths of incompatibility that had often been charted without ever being plumbed. Onlookers were reminded of Joseph Stalin's prediction that the capitalist alliance would inevitably fall apart, and at Panmunjom, Communist truce negotiators profited...
...world's leading powers (TIME, May 18) had fired his countrymen's imaginations, and in domestic terms at least, it was well timed to appeal to coronation-time sentiments about a second Elizabethan Age. Behind well-phrased compliments, Churchill had adroitly sniped at the U.S., berated the truce negotiators for dillydallying, taunted Washington for its unwillingness to meet the Russians face to face. He was on popular ground and he knew it, for Britons are fed up with playing second fiddle to the U.S.-in world affairs. Said a Tory M.P.: "What appealed...
...strength of the "neutral" guard protecting the rights of the prisoners who do not want to return to Communist control. Item: the Communists still insisted that any prisoners who fail to succumb to Communist persuasion would be left to the mercies of a political conference, which would follow a truce at some indefinite time in the future...
...Truce in Korea. In the Far East, Churchill was decidedly conciliatory. Said he: "I should be very content with even a truce and a cease-fire for the moment . . . Terrible injuries have been done each other by the North and South Koreans. But even if both sides only stood still where they were now and ceased fire and tried to replace foreign troops by Korean forces . . . time might once again prove to be a healer...
...fact, the trip had been planned before Stalin's death and the reopening of Korean truce talks; Dulles would have liked to stay close to events in Washington, but he feared that cancellation of his trip might be misunderstood in the touchy Middle East. From Cairo to Riyadh, every government waited to see whether the top Republican statesman, after 20 years of Democratic diplomacy, was planning a switch in America's Middle East policy...