Word: truce
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...truce agreement been reached in Korea? Beneath the weird and interminable welter of words at Panmunjom, the reason is plain even to the newest soldier on the front...
...When the truce talks got under way last July, the U.N. knew what brought the Reds to the conference table: they were suffering heavy losses on the battlefield and they faced the prospect of defeat. U.N. spokesmen said insistently that only by continued pressure could the Reds be brought to sign an armistice. But U.N. strategists lost sight of that fact...
...test U.N. determination by breaking off the talks for two months. The result was to bring Matt Ridgway's army down on them with almost as much weight as before, and the Reds came meekly back to the table and gave up their demand for a truce line on the 38th parallel. Washington might have learned a lesson. Instead, it all but stopped the pressure. U.N. settled down to a wait & see campaign. Casualties fell off, but over the past ten weeks the U.S. has still suffered a weekly average loss of 60-plus killed, 140-plus wounded...
...impression over (for those still impressionable) with a minimum of expenditure. He telegraphed U.S. editors that war was not inevitable; he blandly charmed an Indian ambassador into believing that a little talk would settle anything. At Panmunjom, the Communist "newspapermen" confided in U.S. correspondents that a Korean truce was just around the corner-launching a flood of optimistic news stories...
Signs in Rome last week suggested that the Vatican's unofficial truce with psychoanalysis might be over. Writing for the Bulletin of the Roman Clergy, Monsignor Pericle Felici, an official of the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments, loudly attacked "the absurdity of psychoanalysis." He stated flatly that anyone who adopts the Freudian method is risking mortal...