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...Washington rumor that will not down bobbed up again last week, with a new twist and from a new source. Secretary of State Acheson will quit before Oct. 1 on the wave of acclaim that is expected to roll out of the Korean truce and the signing of the Japanese peace treaty, reported the pro-Acheson New York Post. Reported successor: W. Averell Harriman, who is getting his buildup for the job in Iran. The White House put out its usual comment: "Nothing to it." But on Capitol Hill many top Democrats continue to think that Dean Acheson will...
...discuss a ceasefire; 2) the Communists that the U.N. does not want an armistice badly enough to stand for any pushing around. This week, instead of ordering resumption of the Kaesong talks, Ridgway summoned his negotiators to Tokyo. Possible reason: to discuss a change of site for the truce conference...
...Yalu. In view of this, the U.N. would actually be justified in demanding a cease-fire line considerably to the north of its forward positions on the ground. The Red radio exaggerated Joy's talking point, made it sound as if the U.N. formally demanded a truce line far north of the front-line positions (which it does not). According to the Peking radio, Nam rejected "any argument which boasts of. . . frenzied bombardment by naval and air forces...
Actually, the exaggeration of the U.N. claim might prove a face-saving gimmick for the Reds. They could knock down the straw man of the "new demand," settle for a truce at the battle line and still make a claim of sorts that it was the U.N. which backed down...
...minute. But the U.N. troops held. Next night there was artillery again and 200 rounds of heavy mortar fire. Under cover of the artillery, the Reds sent small infantry forces forward. It looked as if the Reds were trying to soup up their act at the truce table with menacing offstage noises...