Word: truce
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That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear...
...Kremlin learned that the end of U.S. patience was near. The Kremlin's obvious advantage is to unwind U.S. determination, take the urgency out of the West's rearmament. So the Kremlin whispered tantalizingly of peace. That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear...
...Sunday, Korea time, two big green U.S. helicopters windmilled up from Munsan, the allied "advance outpost" for truce talks, and vanished to the north in the morning haze. They flew slowly. In ten minutes they were across the Imjin River; in a few more minutes their pilots sighted Kaesong, three miles south of the 38th parallel, the war-battered town the Communists had picked as the place to talk peace...
...enemy. Ridgway knew that, with more ground strength in Korea-and perhaps with air blows at Manchuria-he could drive the Chinese back behind the Yalu. Yet, with the Chinese licking the wounds that Ridgway's punches had inflicted on them, he was trying to negotiate a truce. The job was not designed for the liking of a hardhitting combat leader, but Good Soldier Ridgway did the job as well as he knew...
...ceasefire. The Communists were certain, for example, to raise stiff objections to a buffer zone which would leave the U.N. forces in their positions and force the Communists to move back 15 or 20 miles. It would not be easy to talk the Communists into letting a truce team travel behind their lines. The Communists have opposed all the supervisory commissions and truce teams the U.N. has attempted, and met most with boycott...