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...Communist enemy responded to the U.S.'s pressure program with a counterattack-not a military counterattack, which might have been costly, but a psychological one. The enemy repeated the fiction (very useful to him in the past) that U.N. pressure is a "provocation" which is "imperiling" the truce talks (in secret session last week and reported to be going fairly well). The Peking radio shrilled that the Pyongyang raids were "directed at Paris, London, New York and Moscow-at a new world war." Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai charged that U.N. planes had crossed...
...this was a cheap psychological smokescreen. The U.S. and the U.N. have at long last awakened to the fact that the military struggle and the struggle under the truce tents are two interlocking phases of the same battle, and have got on the strategically right track...
...Olympic Truce. How good were the Russians? Nobody knew. But the broad-backed Russian women, who claim seven world records, were expected to dominate the women's track & field events. Standing virtually alone against them was the amazing Netherlands housewife, Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four gold medals at the 1948 London games. One first-rate Russian showing is almost certain, and in a game that even the Russians admit the U.S. invented. Olympic fans hope that the Russian basketball team, European champions in 1951, will meet the U.S. in the final...
Private Talk. The import of all this was not lost on the Communist delegates at Panmunjom, who showed less truculence at the truce table...
...security lid, Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop estimated that "the planned reinforcement will increase the overall strength by 40%, and the strength in jet planes by an even higher percentage." In Korea, General Van Fleet publicly surmised that more air pressure might force the Reds to sign a truce...