Word: truce
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...highest levels in Washington, reflecting a situation that is doubtless nationwide, two moods are pitted against each other. Both concern the Korean truce talks that have dragged along for seven months. One Washington mood was described last week by a foreign diplomat as "a rising note of exasperation." The other mood is patience-continued patience until Communists break the uneasy stalemate that now prevails in East Asia...
Among the exasperated are the Navy and the Air Force. Last week Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball, speaking in Milwaukee, digressed forcefully from a prepared text. "If, God forbid," he said, "we do not have a truce in Korea, the Navy will carry the war to the enemy. We're not going to fight the next war in the United States." Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William Fechteler spelled out publicly just how his ships & men could act: "If the truce negotiations break down, the Navy is prepared to broaden the scope of its operations . . . We have the capability...
Career: Byroade is a Regular Army colonel, on loan to the State Department. During World War II, he built air bases in India for the vital "Hump" route and 6-29 bases in China. General Marshall made Byroade his right-hand man during the ill-fated Chinese truce negotiations of 1945-46. He was temporary brigadier general at 32. Marshall brought Byroade to State, where he became chief of the German Affairs Bureau...
...have lost more than 45,000 men in the twilight war, Van Fleet believes that their units have been brought up to full strength; intelligence officers believe that the Reds can mount a major offensive at any time. U.S. troops in the line are paying closer attention to the truce talks at Panmunjom than ever before. One reason is obvious: most of them are recent replacements, who cannot expect rotation for many months, and who therefore look to a quick truce as the only means of getting out fast...
...aggressive provocations" and violations of Red China's "air sovereignty" by "American air pirates." Then the Communists alleged three more acts of U.N. barbarism: a U.N. bombing of a Red P.W. camp at Kang-dong, 18 miles northeast of Pyongyang; an air strafing of a properly marked Red truce delegation convoy north of Kaesong; and an air attack on the Kaesong zone itself, where a crater 25 ft. wide and 8 ft. deep was exhibited to U.N. investigators...