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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 Korea, 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...
...buildup at the front was not necessarily a sign that the Reds were using the truce talks only as a screen for preparing an offensive or that they expected the talks to fail. The U.N. was also diligently plugging away at a buildup of its own. The Air Force was diverting the 116th Bomber Wing, originally earmarked for NATO, to Korea. The Navy was sending over the carrier Essex, two cruisers, a complement of destroyers. Though the Army and Marine Corps were rotating personnel rapidly, the flow of replacements made sure that there would be no weakening of ground strength...
After reviewing the Polish army, Molotov made a long speech in which he 1) referred only briefly to Korea, with emphasis on Russia's peace-loving efforts to bring about a truce; 2) attacked the West as usual for warmongering and plotting aggression against Russia. Most ominous note: a sharp attack on Tito's Yugoslav regime. Cried Molotov: "Realizing that the Yugoslav people hate this hired gang of criminals who stole its way to power, the Tito regime holds itself in power by bloody terror. This cannot continue long. The peoples of Yugoslavia will find...
With the Korean truce talks on, official Washington has begun to plan educational adjustment for future veterans. There are already more than 30 new G.I. training bills in the legislative hopper...
Like two opposing field commanders discussing a truce, Bolivian Ambassador Ricardo Martinez Vargas and RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington held an important conference in Washington last week. After four weeks of polite parleying, they came to terms: Bolivia agreed in principle to sign a 30-day contract to sell her tin to the U.S. at $1.12 a lb., subject to the approval of the big Bolivian tin producers. The terms added up to a notable victory for Symington, who has been fighting a two-front war for lower prices for tin and other raw materials. One front is against Bolivia...