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...greatly helped by the Churchill mission, has reached with its U.N. partners in the Korean war an agreement in principle that may be a solution to the Communists' campaign of conquest in Asia. Its gist: if the Communists, after settling for a truce in Korea, begin a new aggression, the U.N. should try to punish Red China by some means more effective than merely picking up the Korean war where it was left off. The plan is to put the decision in the form of a warning, or ultimatum, to be proclaimed through the U.N. when & if a Korean...
...speech before Congress (see below) put a sharp new firmness in the British outlook. By praising the U.S. stand in Korea and Formosa, by promising "increasing harmony" in the Anglo-American Far Eastern policy, and finally by warning the Communists of "prompt, resolute and effective" retaliation should a Korean truce be broken, the Prime Minister brought Washington and London into dramatic, forceful alignment. It was a bold gesture of leadership that he would have to defend before Parliament...
Then, he repeated Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's warning to Peking and Moscow (TIME, Jan. 21). Said Churchill: "Our two countries are agreed that if the truce we seek is reached, only to be broken, our response will be prompt, resolute and effective...
...Paris, Andrei Vishinsky unreeled a long harangue in which he called the Korean truce talks all but hopeless because of the U.N.'s "unreasonable demands." The white-thatched old propaganda monger called General James Van Fleet a "latterday cannibal," added that he was unfit to conduct the truce talks. Since Van Fleet, the Eighth Army's military commander, has no hand or voice in the ceasefire negotiations, Vishinsky's attack was either a willfully silly distortion or a ludicrous mistake...
...impression got around the world that the Kremlin's puppetmasters are plainly preventing, or at least delaying, a Korean truce. At Panmunjom, the atmosphere was reminiscent of last August, when the Reds broke off the talks for two months. The deadlocks that had existed for weeks-on safeguarding the armistice and exchange of prisoners-continued...