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...unhappy answer seemed to be yes. When truce talks began last summer, the Communists were recoiling with heavy casualties from two massive spring offensives that failed. Now, admitted Truce Negotiator Vice Admiral Joy last week, the U.N. has become militarily weaker and the Communists stronger. Despite the foolishly overnamed Air Force "Operation Strangle," the Communists have been able to build up strong defenses extending 20 miles up the peninsula. The U.N. commanders are confident that they can still beat off an offensive, but they are no longer in a position to launch a U.N. offensive without 1) powerful reinforcements...
...issue which now stalemates the truce talks is Russian representation on a truce commission. The U.N. attitude is that Russia is not a "neutral," and to recognize her as such would be to give her a legal foothold in South Korea; the U.N. had gone quite far enough by its willingness to accept as neutrals the Soviet stooges, Czechoslovakia and Poland. But the Communist negotiators stick stubbornly to the demand, even though the U.N. has said (in its bluntest words yet) that its position is "firm, final and irrevocable." Even if this issue can be settled, there remains the question...
...want any casualties, but they want an armistice quickly. And they want an armistice without any concessions to the enemy." This week, the U.N. no longer seemed a confident command acceding to the petitions of a battered enemy. Instead, it seemed the side which desperately wants the truce because it does not know what else...
After Labor's commitment in May, Churchill said, Labor had made another in September. It had agreed with the U.S. that in the event of a breakdown of Korean truce talks and a resumption of large-scale fighting, "certain action should be taken." This action, it was agreed, would be automatic, and would not even require prior Anglo-American consultation...
...armies of the U.S. or the U.N. to become engulfed in the vast areas of China," he continued, and "few adventures could be less successful or fruitful than for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to plunge on to the mainland." As a closing shot, he said: "The prospects of a truce being reached and respected in Korea will depend to a large extent upon the unity between Great Britain and the U.S.," on "all who seek to weaken or divide us being repulsed and condemned as they will be tonight...