Word: truce
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...turned to the stalemated Korean truce talks. Though negotiations have been under way for eight months, "the only noticeable result is that the enemy has gained time to bring up artillery, air and mechanical transport and to perfect his antiaircraft defenses and communications, all to gain strength where once his weakness was most pronounced...
...brazen effrontery, the medicalatrocity charge was the high point so far of the Reds' propaganda campaign. Such an accusation by them would have been unthinkable in the first weeks of the truce talks last summer, when the U.N. held the whip hand and once broke off the talks for several days over a mere matter of Communist soldiers strolling in Kaesong. Since then, the U.N.'s military pressure has slackened, and its anxiety for a truce has been openly publicized. Now, apparently, the Reds believe that anything goes-the U.N. will keep on coming to the truce table...
Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby, one of the allied negotiators, last week stoutly predicted that chances of a truce are still 50-50. A man who has borne the brunt of many Red jeers, he manfully tried to justify his unhappy assignment...
...only remaining member of the original five-man delegation that began the truce conferences last July is Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, the doughty commander of U.S. naval forces in the Far East and chief of the allied truce team at Panmunjom. The other four have long since been transferred elsewhere. Last week the Navy announced that, sometime next summer, whether there is a truce or not, the admiral will come home to be superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis...
...that such an application to the generosity of Great Britain should ever be ineffectual." After a learned recital of the laws of war, Sir Alexander concluded with a full flourish: "With real sensations of pleasure . . . I decree the restitution of the property . . ." Halifax sent the paintings to Philadelphia by truce ship...