Word: truce
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...Florida sunshine into the blackest cloud of murk that has risen over Washington in many a year. Day after day, revelations of corruption in his Administration are piling up, amid indications that the scandals may grow to outstrip Teapot Dome. In political urgency, the graft scandals overshadow the Korean truce talks and the confused debate over U.S. mobilization...
...normal condition of the Korean truce talks is deadlock. After a major concession by one side or the other, a brief spurt of progress usually follows, and then the deadlock settles down again. Hopeful observers who in July hoped for peace in August, and in October hoped for peace in November, and now hope for peace by New Year's, suffer from what might be called the fallacy of momentum. They assume that each spurt of progress will generate enough energy to carry the negotiators quickly over all the remaining obstacles. It never seems to work out that...
...only to slow down the enemy's southward flow of war supplies, but to remind him that the lull in the Korean fighting was not by any means a total ceasefire. It was one more oddity of an odd war that after weeks of palaver over where a truce line should be, so much of last week's fighting should take place far beyond...
...biggest news story this year, according to a poll of United Press editors: President Truman's firing of General MacArthur. The nine other top stories, in order of importance: the Korean truce talks, Kefauver investigation, anti-inflation controls, atrocities in Korea, amateur-sports scandals, Internal Revenue Bureau dismissals, Churchill's return to power, Missouri-Kansas floods, development of tactical atomic weapons...
...Panmunjom, U.N. correspondents flocked eagerly around to watch Titoist Levi meet the Red reporters covering the truce talks. The Reds eyed Levi coldly. Said Chu Chi Ping, a Chinese reporter, to Americans: "I enjoy talking to you. I know who you are and where you stand. But this man is neither fish nor fowl...