Word: truce
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...Chinese Reds are making the truce table in Korea a place of threats, warnings and a sounding board for anti-U.N. propaganda. Some think this foreshadows a renewal of full-scale warfare -the enemy is now at peak strength and anything can happen...
...more enduring fact: the Korean war, long in a mess, is falling into a worse mess day by day. Washington muddling has fashioned a deadfall in which U.S. policy has been trapped. The current U.S. policy position 1) gives the Reds every reason not to allow a truce and 2) invites the Reds to take the offensive in Korea, or elsewhere in Asia, with the assurance of minimum retaliation from the U.S.-or none...
Holds Barred. U.S. policy as of last week: 1) If a truce is reached and the Communists later return to the offensive in Korea, the U.S. and its allies by agreement will strike back by bombing and blockading China. But no such agreement has been reached to cover attacks elsewhere in Asia...
...truce is not reached and the Reds return to the offensive in Korea, using chiefly ground forces, the U.S. will limit its counterblows to Korea, will not allow its aircraft to cross the Yalu...
...lukewarm pursuit) puts General Clark and his soldiers in another of the stupid and dangerous positions that have characterized the war in Korea. It exposes them to maximum risks, ties their hands for counteraction. As General Clark reported last week, the Reds have used the eleven months of truce talks to double their air and ground strength...