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With the glimmer of a Korean truce in the ofling, the Administration could walk into public acclaim and out of world leadership by turning its back on Asia. But in the new Dulles plan to send arms to Indo-China and earmark some of our French funds for use in that war, the free world can find assurance that the United States is not going to pack its bag and get out of Asia as soon as the truce is settled...
Also in the issue of Mach 20 below the statement: "You can set these things down as near certainties," they remarked, "Truce as an idea, is dead...
...Commander Mark Clark was determined, with Washington's backing, that the enemy would have to make a hard & fast agreement, at the liaison level, on immediate exchange of disabled prisoners (nicknamed the Little Switch) before he would discuss full-scale resumption of the truce talks (the Big Switch), which he designated as a "second order of business." The Reds acquiesced. To head his liaison group, Clark appointed Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, 53, Annapolis graduate (1924), who has made a solid reputation in the Navy both as desk man and blue-water sailor. Organizer of the Navy...
...Soviet Union would support Hammarskjöld. That afternoon, in formal session, the Council swiftly voted 10 to o (with Nationalist China abstaining because Sweden has recognized Red China) to recommend Hammarskjöld to the Assembly. It was the first time since the beginning of the Korean truce talks in July 1951 that East and West had agreed on anything as important in U.N. affairs...
Menon was reluctant to speak on the "delicate" Korean truce negotiations, but expressed the hope that the exchange of wounded prisoners would go smoothly...