Word: truce
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...even after the Truman flap. The Korean war, limited in the early stages on the U.N. side by Washington's long-term reluctance to "provoke" the Reds, now had a new and puzzling limitation which would or would not make sense, depending on what happened in the truce negotiations...
What did the Red buildup portend? There are two plausible deductions: 1) that the enemy expects a smashing U.N. offensive-if the truce talks at Panmunjom fail-and is readying his defenses against it; 2) that he is mounting an offensive of his own. Despite the talk at Panmunjom and in the world's capitals, all was not entirely quiet on the Korean front...
McDonald asked the President a series of questions, among them whether the United States was afraid of the Communists and if not, why this country is carrying on truce negotiations with "a people who have repeatedly stated that a treaty is only binding so long as it serves their purposes...
...things had been going before, the truce talks had been clearly getting nowhere. Perhaps the Washington plan was worth trying...
...When the truce talks were resumed at Panmunjom in October, the fighting on the battlefront died down, but the lull was only momentary. Since then, small-scale but fierce battles have frequently broken out, and it has been the Reds who have done most of the attacking. Last week the Chinese were at it again...