Word: truce
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...during the negotiations the Reds stalled and their stalling intensified when Russia's Vishinsky threw a wrench into the truce machine...
...Panmunjom last week, the frozen furrows of the millet field around the truce talks tent softened to the first thaw of the new year. The cold features of North Korea's General Nam II were also a degree or two warmer. For the first time since the resumption of the truce talks last fall, the Communist negotiator brought along with him, in his shiny black Chrysler, a proposition that seemed to offer an acceptable formula on an important issue...
...question before the tent was what the military commanders of both sides should recommend to their governments for joint discussion, after a truce is effected. Hitherto the Communists have been demanding that any settlement of the Korean question must also include settlement of Formosa and U.N. recognition of Red China. Now Nam simply proposed that a high-level political conference be held, within three months of signing the armistice, "by representatives appointed respectively to settle . . . the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea, a peaceful settlement of the Korean question, et cetera...
There still remained two major truce issues to be settled: 1) the Communist right to build airfields during the armistice, 2) the right of prisoners of war on both sides to voluntary repatriation...
...Truce Talk. In Memphis, after the judge advised him that if he wanted to fight he ought to go to Korea, Charles McGowen, booked for disorderly conduct, replied: "I'm just back from Korea, judge. I got into a fight arguing about the fighting in Korea...