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...prompt our own troops to commit similar acts in revenge. Atrocity charges also stimulate the home-front hotheads (several senators called for "immediate atomic retaliation" Last week), and stiffen the enemy's will to resist. Colonel Hanley's inaccurate statement not only countered our attempts to arrange a speedy truce in Korea; it also bloated the facts about Communist atrocities into unpalatable exaggeration...
...most startling feature of this issue, however, comes in the special supplement included in pamphlet form. Termed "Documents on the Cease-Fire and Armistice Negotiations in Korea," the booklet contains complete notes exchanged by Chinese and United Nations' negotiators before and during the first truce talks in July. The editors intended it to show, according to the introduction, how the U.N. "flouted the people's will and pushed the armed invasion of Korea." It actually points up the Communists' concern over the trend of the war, and their anxiety to end it as soon as possible without losing face...
Once more optimists' hopes soared, and once more pessimists expected those hopes to be dashed. The pessimists not only had past performances on their side, but a prospect of visible troubles ahead-the enormous difficulty of negotiating a truce supervision arrangement with inspection-shy Reds, and the exchange-of-prisoners problem, now sharpened by front-page talk of Communist atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). If these mountainous obstacles could be overcome in the short span of 30 days, it would be one of the diplomatic wonders of the cold...
...George Company, so it was all up & down the U.N. line last week, and so it has been for most of the 4½ months since truce talks started. The people to whom cease-fire negotiations mean most -the Joes now in the mud of the early winter line-simply aren't counting on anything to get them out intact, except rest-and-recuperation leave in Japan, or the big R of rotation. As for cease-fire talks, as one company commander said, "Look, Jack, that stuff's in another world from us. Sure, maybe...
...wasn't that kind of child's play in the Suez Canal zone city of Ismailia. There a fight broke out in front of Egyptian police headquarters. Four British army officers, seven Egyptian cops and four civilians were killed. After order was restored, a truce was arranged: the Egyptians agreed to disarm their police, the British promised to evacuate the military families from Ismailia as quickly as possible. Both sides seemed eager to avoid trouble. The women were clearing out; it was unwise to be out after dark or to go off limits; a clap of the hands...