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Along the Korean battlefront last week, the U.N. truce negotiators struggled with the same kind of question, phrased in slightly different form. The Panmunjom talks and the stalemate of the armies went on (see WAR IN ASIA). In Korea, the free world asked: "What should...
...military men on the scene expected this one to yield, as others had. They expected an early peace; they could feel it in the air and in their bones. Another school of thought holds that the Communists never intend to reach final agreement, that they are using the truce conferences as a ruse to protect their buildup for a crushing offensive, just as the Chinese Reds, while fighting the Nationalists in the civil war, had made treacherous use of truces to gather strength for the next attack. The pessimists point to the Red buildup which is still going...
While the truce negotiators struggled across the conference table, the U.S. could only wait and hope. Last week in Saginaw, Mich., Mr. & Mrs. Walter Fox listened as the radio gave the names from the Communist list. "Don't worry, Mom," said one of the younger children. "Ronald's name is going to be on that list." A few minutes later, a Western Union messenger knocked on the door. The telegram he handed Mrs. Fox was from the Defense Department: her son, reported missing last July, had been killed in action...
Reporters at last week's White House press conference were given Harry Truman's off-the-record comments on the state of the Korean truce negotiations. Later, the wire services were allowed to send the President's remarks over the tapes, for editors' information only. Among those who heard Truman's off-the-record talk, and presumably forwarded it to their bosses: Jean Montgomery of Tass, the official Russian news agency, and the New York Daily Worker's Rob F. Hall...
...late Mohandas K. Gandhi once said of the late Moslem leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah that he had "a difficulty for every solution." The U.N. truce negotiators last week at Panmunjom felt the same way about their Communist opposite numbers. The Reds yielded to a demand that a separate subcommittee be set up to deal with Item 4 (exchange of prisoners) while the first subcommittee was still grappling with Item 3 (supervision of armistice). Soon two subcommittees were grinding away under two tents at Panmunjom. This week, there rose one note of hope: the Reds turned over a list...