Word: truce
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...place might have looked like a native collection of huts-except that U.S. air maps showed no village on the site, certainly not one that covered four square miles. Actually it was a big Communist supply dump, 30 miles northwest of the Panmunjom truce site. The Reds tried their best to disguise it by covering the boxes, barrels and bags with thatching that looked like roofs. A month ago, U.S. reconnaissance pilots spotted the dump for what it was. But the airmen waited while it grew into one of the lushest supply targets in North Korea...
...would only behave." At Panmunjom, Admiral Libby duly made a report on last week's riot to the Communist negotiators, who received it with bitter comments and hints that more would be heard from them later. The unfortunate outbreak was one more bone to pick over in the truce talks, which are already amply strewn with bones of contention. Peace last week seemed farther and farther away...
...Korean truce negotiations would be Stalin's most convenient tool in the coming election. His agent Malik first suggested them--over a year ago. If a quick truce had been arranged, Truman's foreign policy would have scored a tremendous victory. Campaigning on a Peace and Prosperity platform, Truman could be very hard to beat. But Harry Truman, for all his vices, is not Stalin's kind of President. So Stalin has let the truce talks bog down. The Korean casualties continue to trickle in, causing increasing impatience with Truman's foreign policy--impatience mixed with disillusionment, since what seemed...
...loan will have to be negotiated"; 3) on the budget: "We must settle a deficit of 400 billion francs." Said he: "The. remedies are neither of the right nor of the left. They bear no parliamentary labels. They are technical measures to be taken in a climate of political truce." Cautiously he skirted the tax issue which had tripped his predecessor, Edgar Faure...
...uneasy and unreal era of truce between China's merchants and its Communist government...