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That was just what Nam II needed. In one of the truce tents Nam read from Colson's message and declared: "Your absurd principle of voluntary repatriation has collapsed in utter bankruptcy...
...Communist prisoners now in U.N. camps, who have said they will fight any effort to send them back behind the Red frontiers. "To agree to forced repatriation would be unthinkable," said the President of the U.S., breaking his rule against commenting publicly on the Korean truce talks. "It would be repugnant to the fundamental moral and humanitarian principles which underlie our action in Korea. We will not buy an armistice by turning over human beings for slaughter or slavery...
...Reds dropped their insistence on Russia as a member of the truce commission. With grudging satisfaction they noted U.N. willingness to forgo a ban on the building of North Korean airfields during the truce. But they still fiercely disputed the U.N.'s right to keep 100,000 military and civilian prisoners who had voted against a return to Communist control. Admiral Joy then coolly suggested that the truce talks be indefinitely suspended until the Reds were ready to accept the U.N. plan...
...Allow me," said the letter, "to make some humble suggestions on how we could combat Communism in the Philippines." The letter attacked the large Philippine landholders, corporations and the church, but it also assailed Communism. Filipinos blinked when they got to the letter writer's proposition-a truce in the government's war on the Communist Huk guerrillas and a national conference of Philippine landlords, churchmen, corporation executives and President Quirino to agree on wholesale division of the land and political reform for the Philippines...
...first time since February, the full Korean truce teams on both sides met together. Around the Panmunjom conference table duly appeared eight generals and two admirals, with 46 aides and advisers in the background. Reporters were hustled out of earshot, and censors told to strike out of their copy any hint of the nature of the negotiations...