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...liked Ike in '52), Robertson went to work for the Government during World War II, served as chief of the Lend-Lease mission to Australia, then as embassy counselor and chargé d'affaires in China's wartime capital, Chungking. In 1946 he headed the truce enforcement commission set up by the Marshall mission. After Marshall's makeshift appeasement failed, Robertson quit the foreign service, went back to banking with the conviction that the Chinese Communists were "ruthless Marxians," and that the U.S. had "sold China down the river...
...June 1951, before the Korean truce talks began, "we had the Communist armies on the run . . . We stopped by order, did not pursue to finish the enemy ... I believe we would have gotten all his heavy equipment and perhaps 200,000 or 300,000 prisoners ... I was crying [for Washington] to turn me loose...
From his past record, Rau is not anti-West. He voted for U.N. intervention in Korea, and has been a prime exponent of the Soviet-opposed Indian Truce Plan. His acceptability to the Russians is hard to understand, but it makes him the leading candidate. Only China threatens opposition because India has recognized the Peiping Government. But the Nationalists would probably not block Rau's election by veto...
When the peace talks began in Kaesong nearly two years ago, Rhee denounced them as another Communist trick, and added, blusteringly, that if the U.N. were to sign a truce, the South Korean army would advance to the Yalu itself. Rhee's truculence is echoed by many Koreans, and for understandable reasons: without the power resources, the fertilizer factories and the iron mines of North Korea, the republic is doomed to economic mendicancy. When President Eisenhower visited Korea last December, Syngman Rhee insisted that the condition of any settlement must be unification of Korea...
...command of the army. In the streets, where so much of contemporary Middle Eastern history is being made, pro-Mossadegh mobs were out to trade epithets and blows with his enemies. "The Shah or death!" cried thousands. "Mossadegh or death!" replied other thousands. Yet a kind of truce seemed to have settled over Teheran at week's end. The crowds seemed more curious and confused than cross...