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...apparent (see WAR IN ASIA) that the U.S. is not going to win the Korean war. Washington has not the will to win it. During eight months of truce negotiations, U.S. forces have grown weaker, the enemy stronger. There is no will to achieve anything more than a stalemate. All Asia will note as a great new fact that the U.S. was unable to cope with the Chinese Reds...
After eight months of haggling, in which hopes have risen only to be dashed, peace in Korea seemed farther away than ever. In the truce tents at Panmunjom and at SCAP headquarters in Tokyo, dejection seized the U.N. team and expressed itself in one gloomy question: "Has the U.N. been made a patsy...
Tokyo sent Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd, U.S. Eighth Army Deputy Chief of Staff, and a board of seven officers to investigate the riots. At Panmunjom, Red truce negotiator Colonel Tsai Chengwen sneered, "The massacre fully testifies to the brutal inhumanity with which your side treats our personnel." U.N. officers were convinced that the riots testified to something else: a deliberate Communist attempt to discredit the U.N. demand for voluntary repatriation of prisoners...
State of Mind Warned General Ridgway: "There is a truckload of minutiae still to be discussed." Communist truce mechanics, equipped with monkey wrenches, seemed determined to keep the truck stalled. Last week they: 1) threatened to make a truce issue of Peking's charge that U.S. planes had bombed Manchuria; 2) accused the U.N. of "barbarously massacring" Korean civilians at the Koje Island prison camp (see above); 3) said that they would hold out forever, if necessary, against the U.N. proposal for the voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war; 4) continued to insist that Russia be accepted...
...possible collapse of the Korean truce talks...