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...Washington last week, the President: ¶ Conferred with Cabinet officials and military chiefs on the latest Communist truce proposal (see WAR IN ASIA...
...months of capture. The Chinese took the records away from him, but "I remembered the figures." Exactly 2,538. mostly American. "It was just starvation and disease," said he. "We could always feel the lice crawling over us." Care got better and fewer men died after the Korean truce talks began...
...these fundamental points turns the possibility of armistice. Do the Communists really want a truce? Perhaps they do; perhaps they are cleverly counting on the U.N. command wanting one just a little more...
Prime Minister Churchill thought the offer "not contrary to the accepted laws and customs of war," but agreed that with truce talks going on, it did involve "an issue of timeliness...
...truce talks had been resumed only because the Communists had promised to be more conciliatory on the subject of forced repatriation. But a revealing sentence of Nam Il's showed how unchanging their position really is. "The apprehensions of the P.W.s about the question of their own repatriation," said he, "can only be eliminated after an appropriate time and after explanations are made to them by the side concerned." In other words, the whole purpose of postponing their release and of putting them in neutral custody is to give the Communists (and the Communists alone) a chance to "eliminate...