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...well prepared and delivered in aloof and detached fashion. Speaking to the 60-member Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, Acheson marched meticulously from fact to fact. He recited, step by step, the story of U.S. and Korea from the days of the Cairo Declaration to the truce tents at Panmunjom, and was indeed able to prove that the U.S. had been patient-if not too patient-at every stage of the game...
...long period of time. Currently, Korea is a showcase for that sort of policy, where the UN fights if it must but never passes by a chance to negotiate, where it clings stubbornly to a hand-full of basic principles, but compromises on less essential points. If the Korean Truce-War appears a stalemate, it is simply because such a policy requires infinite patience, a quality which Stevenson has, happily, in abundance...
Alongside of this is General Eisenhower's statement that America should withdraw its troops and let the Asiatics fight each other. Some people were happy to hear this; probably the Russians were happiest. To them, it is a sign to forget about a truce and to wait and polish off the South Koreans after our Army leaves...
...phrase, reflecting a new mood, was crossing Europe last week: Cold Peace. As cold war means sustained hostility short of World War III, a cold peace means a sustained truce without a settlement. The mood, which was latent and unexpressed, suddenly popped into the open and is now, reported the London Observer, "the main topic of informed political conversation all over Europe...
Americans sometimes tend to forget it, but after 14 months of futile truce talks, there is still a war going on in Korea. Last week a battlefront dispatch by U.P. Correspondent Richard Applegate brought a stinging reminder...