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...truce talks at Panmunjom were a high-school debate, the U.N. debaters would have had their Communist opponents backed into an uncomfortable corner last week. Major General Howard Turner reminded the Reds of a statement made last month by North Korea's Nam II to the effect that his side would certainly build and repair North Korean airfields during an armistice (the theory being that North Korea was a sovereign nation, and that the U.N. had no right to interfere in its internal affairs). Now Red China's Hsieh Fang was saying that the U.N.'s charge...
Washington-which had been up to its eyes in the truce talks since November-was beginning to see that the inspection business was not workable. It seemed clear that, no matter what they agreed to at the conference table, the Reds would fix up their blasted North Korean airstrips and build new ones as soon as they had the chance...
...fussy sort of rigmarole. But it was a sign that Washington was flexing its slack muscles and bracing itself to launch a policy of determent (i.e., a warning of direct punishment, rather than a mere renewal of battle in Korea) as the best means of preventing a Korean truce from becoming a dangerous trap...
...week, a thin, precise man stepped out of a helicopter, tucked his brown briefcase under his arm and strode purposefully toward the conference tents. He was Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby, commander of U.S. Cruiser Division 3, who has been detached for temporary duty as a U.N. delegate to the truce conference. The admiral wore a plain Navy overcoat without stripes or shoulder boards; only his gold-braided cap marked him as a naval officer. Said a British newsman who was watching the scene: "If you switched that cap of Libby's for a Homburg, he'd look like...
Floundering Truce. Vishinsky's outburst came in the midst of his latest bellicose attempt to show himself a man of peace. He proposed a full-dress meeting of the U.N. Security Council, with Foreign Ministers sitting as delegates, to lessen world tension. First item: the Korean truce, which, he said, is now deadlocked and "floundering" at Panmunjom...