Word: truce
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...agenda, the ceasefire line.* There only remained to be settled, it seemed, the relatively minor question of who, if anybody, would hold Kaesong. What, then, was aU the scuffling about in the conference tent? At week's end Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, chief of the U.N. truce delegation, boarded the press train parked at Munsan and explained to the puzzled newsmen, and suddenly everything was as clear...
Sarcastic Phrase. The U.N. team had discovered and avoided a neat Communist deadfall-rigged up by the Reds perhaps as long ago as last July, when the truce agenda was adopted. At that time the enemy had insisted that the cease-fire line be dealt with first. Hoping for a quick armistice, the U.N. had agreed. There followed months of bickering, deadlocks, interruptions, neutral zone problems and false Red accusations. Thus it seemed a U.N. triumph, and a hastening of peace, when the Reds gave up their insistence on the 38th parallel line, and accepted instead the present battle line...
...cease-fire line would be settled at last. But that would not, by any means, signal the end of the war. During all the fuss & fury over the cease-fire line, a time bomb in the agenda had been quietly ticking away: item 3, which concerns supervision of the truce arrangements, and which the U.N. believes must involve inspection by each side behind the opposing lines...
...Plans. Acheson had come to Paris with a far-reaching proposition to lay before the U.N.-stressing, as Russian proposals usually do, a willingness to talk peace. Some of its essentials: swift completion of a truce in Korea; a fresh call for world disarmament and simultaneous control of atomic energy, based on full inspection; Western agreement to four-power negotiations with Russia any time Russia had something genuine to offer. But it was prepared to go further. Last year, Acheson's "Uniting for Peace" resolution transformed the lowly Assembly from a debating society into an agency that might take...
...Truce. In Atlanta, members of the Junior Civitan Club sold Confederate flags to raise the money to buy U.S. flags for classrooms at Brown High School...