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...Reds do not sign a truce and do attempt to resume offensive war in Korea (either in the air, or on the ground, or both), the main U.S. reply will come not in Korea but by air-sea attack on the Chinese coastal cities...
...Reds sign a truce and then break it with another offensive in Korea, the U.S. will not confine its resistance to Korea or even concentrate on Korea. Instead, it will blockade the coast of China and attack Chinese coastal cities...
...decision puts an entirely different light on the truce talks. Before the new policy, the U.S. had little prospect of ending the Korean war in any way favorable to U.S. interests. Even if the Reds signed the truce and thereafter stayed quiet, the whole U.N. force would be tied up in the Korean area to defend and police the agreement. Under the new policy, the U.N. can walk away from the Korean truce line, saying over its shoulder: "Violate it, and the war will be brought...
...Defend a Line. Since the truce talks began, the U.N. has spent 30,000 casualties in U.S. troops alone in trying to fight its way through Bloody Ridge, the Punch Bowl, Heartbreak Ridge and the rest. Its goal was a defensible line on which to rest the truce. If the Administration had adopted the new policy in June, it might have saved the subsequent casualties. It could have accepted a truce at the "indefensible" 38th parallel, and defended that with a threat to open up on the China coast...
...have done, while other influential quarters critized the State Department simply through force of habit. The negotiators for both sides in Korea thought up some new sets of conditions and called each other a few more variations of scroundel, while the fighting front sputtered sporadically. Andrei Vishinsky suggested the truce talks be moved to the Security Council, where all good disputes go to die, and then gave Western diplomats a few more gray hairs by hinting that events "were about to take their course" in Southeast Asia. It was small wonder that people and newspapers took their minds off these...