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...statement released by the U.N. Command referred to two key issues blocking agreement on truce supervision: Communist insistence on Russia as one of six neutral nations to police a truce, and as Allied demand for a ban on military airfield construction during an armistice. The Reds have asked for a resumption of prisoner exchange talks, which were recessed April...
America's Town Meeting (Sun. 6:30 p.m., ABC). "Should We Continue Truce Talks in Korea?" Yes: Rear Admiral Ellis Zacharias. No: Commentator Henry J. Taylor...
...main spokesman for the truce party and does most of the talking to the American press. He has been quoted many times over the Associated Press wires and in the newspapers...
Those who are hopeful of a Korean truce believe that the Reds are testing U.N. patience to the utmost in order to squeeze out the best possible terms for themselves: when they see they have nothing further to gain, they will make a deal. The pessimists-among whom General Ridgway must be counted since his scathing analysis of "Operation Quagmire" (TIME, Feb. 18)-believe that the Communists make minor concessions from time to time simply to keep the talks going indefinitely. The optimists have had almost nothing to feed on lately, but they keep on making hand-to-mouth motions...
...effort to whip up support in China, and the Communist countries which supply her armies, for a breakoff of truce talks at Panmunjom and a resumption of the war in Korea. tj Russia, now that it is itself making atom bombs (and thus can no longer accuse Western "warmongers" of being the only ones to make the dread weapon), had to create some other dastardly form of warfare which it could say was a Western monopoly. This is a British Foreign Office theory...