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...sent an indignant message to Nam II making it clear that the truce talks had been broken off because of the blockade. "I am prepared to return with my delegation and continue the discussions which were recessed yesterday upon notification from you that my convoy, bearing personnel of my choosing, including such press representation I consider necessary, will be cleared to the conference site...
...Reds, now rocked by General Ridgway's decisive reversal of the course of the truce conference, are not trying the full-blast victory theme in Europe - be cause they know that they cannot get away with it, and knew it even before Ridgway struck the issue. Instead, they are plugging the peace theme. Communist papers complain of Ridgway's truculence in breaking off the talks, represent the Communists as "patient," the U.S. as "power mad." The London Daily Worker printed a photomontage showing five smiling world leaders sitting around a conference table: Truman, Stalin, France's Schuman...
delegate at the truce talks. On the eastern front last week, attacking South Koreans were driven back by counterattacking North Koreans. South of Kumsong, the Reds' central front bastion, U.N. forces gained more than a mile against heavy machine-gun fire. But the general pattern was one of watchful waiting...
...talks were really "on track." Meanwhile, the matter of press coverage had "high priority." But at the next briefing session, things were worse than ever. Army and Navy officers did such a bad job describing what had happened that it was plain neither had been at the second truce meeting. A few reporters, who had been drinking too much for their own good, hooted derisively. U.P. Correspondent Earnest Hoberecht angrily cried: "General Ridgway assured us that the briefing officers would attend the conferences. I say we've been double-crossed...
...battery scored 53 hits on the Amethyst. Dead and wounded lay scattered about her deck. The ship's doctor was killed, the skipper was wounded and soon died, and most of the guns were put out of action. The Communists answered the Amethyst's white flag of truce with machine-gun fire. The smashed frigate ran aground on a mud-bank, remained trapped under Communist guns for 101 days...