Word: truce
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...victory? The U.N. had stamped on the reaching fingers of an aggressor, then forced him to snatch his fingers back. But few could accept with any enthusiasm Dean Acheson's insistence that a truce at the 38th parallel would mean "a successful conclusion" to the war. Acheson said: "Our objective is to stop the attack, end the aggression, restore peace-providing against the renewal of the aggression." That, said Acheson, was what the United Nations...
...fact, it was less a Russian feeler than a reaction to various cease-fire proposals made by Douglas MacArthur and others. Malik and Gromyko made news by hinting that the Reds were finally willing to talk battlefield truce; the Americans had long ago expressed their willingness...
...international commission, not necessarily under U.N. (which the Reds maintain has no legal right in Korea), with unrestricted access to all of Korea to supervise the truce...
Opportunity? The world promptly started to buzz with truce talks. In Oslo, where he was vacationing, U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie delightedly and uncritically pounced on the Malik statement. Said Lie: "The first step . . . must be a cease-fire." The "ceasefire should involve only the military arrangements necessary to stop the fighting and to insure against its renewal . . . The political issues involved . . . can then be appropriately discussed in the competent organs...
...expects a battlefield truce...