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Except for a passing mention in the Globe, the papers declined to discuss MacArthur's big blunder. Someone must have mumbled to the general that the truce agenda had been agreed upon in Kores, for when he visited a hospital a few minutes later he told more than one soldier. "You'll be interested to know that a truce was signed this morning...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: The General Captures the Hub | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...battalion was hit without warning by what one officer called "the damndest mortar and artillery barrage I know of." A few hours later a screaming, bugle-blowing Chinese regiment attacked the Americans and cut them off. It was the heaviest fighting on the western front since the truce talks in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Is This It? | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...stream of Communist invective and charges of U.N. truce violations continued last week without letup. The Peking radio frankly admitted what the free world had suspected for weeks-that the breakdown at Kaesong was closely linked to the signing of the Japanese treaty (see INTERNATIONAL). The Reds had obviously hoped to use Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Curtains for Kaesong? | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...bearing arms . . . The main bulwark of the U.S. was their air force . . . it was in the United States that very long-range bombers first were built. No doubt the Americans had peace for the present but the United States could only regard the peace in the light of a truce, and . . . employ it in preparations for war . . . But when a war of annihilation is impending over a state, the more wise, more resolute and more devoted men always find themselves hampered by the indolent and cowardly mass of money worshippers, of the feeble, and of the thoughtless who wish merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Alsops' Fable | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...combat between Murderer Velasquez and a Weasel named Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse came out of the fight wounded and sulking, and threatened to commit suicide to distress the Blackbirds. At this impasse, last week the Guajiros appealed to the Venezuelan government to negotiate a peace. Pending arbitration, an uneasy truce settled over the Guajira plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: The Quaint Men of Guajira | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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