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Since the Korean truce talks got under way last summer, U.N. newsmen have been faced with a dilemma. They have found that Communist correspondents, whom they see every day at Panmunjom, are often a better source of truce-talk news than the sparse briefings by U.N.'s own information officers. From such men as Alan Winnington of the London Daily Worker and Wilfred Burchett of Paris' pro-Communist Ce Soir, U.N. correspondents have extracted Red reaction to U.N. proposals even before the U.N. negotiators announced that the proposals had been made. And high-ranking U.N. officers have frequently...
...spent $10 billion and counted 105,000 casualties. World War I was a more expensive war-it cost twice as much in arms, more than three times as much in blood. But after 584 days the threat was repulsed, and the war was over. At Panmunjom last week, the truce talks droned on; the hills still echoed the crump of artillery, the ripple of machine-gun fire, and the hoarse cry: "Medic...
...position of pleading his case to two different parliaments-Congress in Washington, the House of Commons in London-each wanting a different set of assurances. Just what had Churchill promised the Americans? That Britain stands ready to join the U.S. in bombing and blockading Communist China if the truce talks fail? To his listeners in London, Churchill explained his words in Washington...
...thought it better," said he, "to speak in general terms of the action we should take in the event of a breach of the truce, and I used the words 'prompt, resolute and effective.' I do not believe they were bad words to use. Certainly . . . they are better than 'tardy, timid and fatuous.'" He had made, he added, to the obvious relief of his listeners, "no final commitment...
Attributing Hershey's statement to use of outdated material, the aide asserted that the huge reduction in casualties, brought about by truce talks, and an unexpected enlistment increase, should lower the figure to 275,000 or 300,000 inductions, "barring unforeseen things...