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This response by Red China last week to Douglas MacArthur's proposal for a battlefield conference on a truce (TiME, April 2) seemed plain as plain could be. The words were backed up by a continued massive buildup of fresh Chinese Communist forces on the Korean front, presumably for another, greater Red offensive against the U.N. (see below). But in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), London and other non-Communist capitals, a lot of diplomats and pundits sounded as though MacArthur rather than Mao Tse-tung was really the warmonger...
Last week MacArthur spoke to the enemy again. He threw down no ultimatum. Instead, he proposed negotiations for a truce on the field of battle. With the offer went a warning that the fight might be carried to the Chinese mainland if it was unduly prolonged. Said MacArthur...
...burdened with "extraneous matters" such as Formosa and the seating of Red China in the U.N. Established U.N. policy, however, calls for discussion of these two important questions as soon as a cause fire agreement has been reached. If the Chinese should refuse to agree on a truce, MacArthur intimated that the U.N. might drop its current policy of confining the war to Korea, and authorize military action against the Chinese mainland. This is not U.N. policy, and State Department officials quickly indicated that this was not their plan either. MacArthur has partially committed the U.N. and the State Department...
Prior to the general's manifesto, the State Department was making plans for a statement of the peace aims of all fourteen nations now fighting with the U.N. in Korea. The plan was to send this statement to the Chinese in order to re-open truce negotiations. The U.N. is also trying to establish contact with Peiping through the Swedish legation there. MacArthur's proposal made no mention of these authorized negotiations and was obviously not coordinated with them; the general's speech came as a complete surprise to U.N. officials of all nations...
...Europe. The Unspeakable Turk, Sultan Suleiman Khan, had smashed the Hungarian capital of Buda and thundered on, 170 incredible miles in one week, to the gates of Vienna. In an instant, Europe broke off its feuds. France and the Holy Roman Empire patched up a quick truce; even the Pope and Martin Luther buried the ecclesiastical mace for the time being. Twenty days later it was all over, and everybody felt a bit silly. The invader packed up his plunder and poled off down the Danube...