Word: truce
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...from Korea," cried Bevanite M.P. Emrys Hughes, a bellicose pacifist, "because the war there [is] one of the most cruel and futile in history." Since the Americans had made a mess of the P.W. situation and the Syngman Rhee affair, some Britons implied, they probably have balled up the truce negotiations just as badly...
...Chinese people are sick & tired of war. The hopeful observers came to believe that the government would welcome some kind of face-saving truce proposal (unspecified) by a neutral such as India...
Taft would not withdraw from Europe; he would keep there the six U.S. divisions already committed, and he would provide arms for allies. He would stay with the U.N. He would strive for a truce in Korea, then arm the South Koreans and pull out U.S. troops. But his basic point was that the U.S. could not match Russia in ground-force manpower. Nor must the U.S. "admit that our safety depends on begging bayonets from Germany or from France." The U.S. must be strong in its own right, and such strength lay, above all, in "control...
Winston Churchill, a prophet who has often been right in the past, told the House of Commons last week that the Korean situation is "very grave." He doubted that the Communists had ever had any "will to peace"; they had plainly used the truce talks to accumulate a formidable striking force. He gave figures on the enemy buildup (some of which were also given by General Mark Clark's headquarters in Tokyo); the enemy now has a million-man army ready to fight, 500 tanks and self-propelled guns, an 1,800-plane air force of which about...
...Panmunjom, North Korea's dapper, tireless Lieut. General Nam II returned to the truce table with a "grave warning." The Communist armies, he cried, "decidedly cannot sit by while seeing their capTured fellow combatants being slaughtered by your side at will" (see below). This sounded uncomfortably like the warnings that emanated from Red China on the eve of her massive intervention in the autumn...