Word: truce
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Line. When Lieut. General Nam II and his partners in crime came to the truce table at Kaesong last July 10, the Communist armies were in bad shape. From their last two spring offensives, they had reeled back with losses of probably 250,000 men. Epidemics of some sort were raging in North Korea, and presumably further crippling the Red fighting forces. Moreover, the Eighth Army, which Matt Ridgway had turned into a first-class fighting machine, had proved by its "meat-grinder" counteroffensives that it could grind some 90 miles farther north to the line where the peninsula widens...
...only to win a breathing spell. The U.N. made it plain to the Communists that the fighting would go on until the armistice was signed and sealed. The U.N. morale was high; the prevalent attitude was that the enemy would have to toe the line if he wanted a truce. The State Department thought the truce talks might last as long as four weeks. In the year that has followed, the Washington masterminds have allowed the high morale, the healthy pugnacity, to be frittered away. That year is a profitable lesson in the education of a general...
When Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy and his team reached Kaesong for the first session, they found the city taken over by armed Communists. By propaganda and picture, the Reds represented themselves as victors. Ridgway squelched that with an ultimatum; neutralize Kaesong or no more truce talks. The Reds succumbed. After some further jockeying for face, which Ridgway won hands down, the delegates got on to formulate an agenda...
Breakoff & Backfire. This was the substance and order of the agenda that emerged: 1) first adopt the agenda; 2) locate the cease-fire line; 3) provide safeguards for the truce; 4) arrange exchange of prisoners; 5) and finally, agree on recommendations (not binding) to the belligerent governments. In putting the cease-fire line at the top of the substantive items, the wily Reds had laid a trap which the U.N. woke up to, later...
Adroit Timing. When the 30-day trial went into effect, a great quiet descended on the battlefront. At Panmunjom the negotiators took up the problems of safeguarding the truce-with inspection and exchange of prisoners. The delegates were heavily embroiled with these matters when the 30-day deadline passed...