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...February, under the label "Operation Quagmire," Matt Ridgway put out a bitter analysis of the Communist truce tactics: "The Communist plan...has called for a temporary show of progress following each period of complete delay. The Communists have known that, at certain times throughout the talks, they must inject a certain modicum of achievement as the price for their main program of bargaining inertia. This is part of the Communist war of nerves. Hope must be raised and dashed .according to schedule" (TIME, Feb. 18). This analysis seemed correct at the time; it still seems so today...
Principles of War. A startling fact emerges from this unhappy story. Although Ridgway, Joy & Co. were outmaneuvered on occasion, they came off, on the whole, with a much better score than the Metternichs and Talleyrands of Washington. It now appears that the military men were right about the truce talks-military pressure should have been kept up against the Communists to dissuade them from stalling...
...specific obligation to consult us. Although we are sorry we were not ... we give our allies full support in it." But the more he talked, the more halfhearted Eden's defense sounded. Attlee could conceivably be right, Eden confessed, in fearing that the bombings might upset the truce negotiations. "I do not care myself to try to estimate that...
...Bevan, the Yalu River bombings represented a new Washington extend-the-war plot, fiendishly timed to take place just when the Korean truce hinged on but one unsolved issue...
...fighting as a dull, disagreeable affair worth only a few sticks of type. The House of Commons debate was marked by ignorant assertions that went unchallenged-such as that the U.S. is training Chiang Kaishek's troops in Korea itself. Some Britons actually seemed to believe that a truce had been in operation in Korea until the U.S. bombers dropped their payloads last week, and seemed shocked when Acheson told them the "lull" had cost the U.N. 30,000 casualties...