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Like the vale of Kashmir, Gore Hall is now nestling in the middle of an armed truce. One day a recognized territory of Winthrop House, the next day it was a victim of one of the historical accidents which have brought such grief to Palestine, the Sudetenland, and Transylvania in recent times...
Mather asserted that Ryan did not hear his talk in the Syracuse chapel, where he "explained the distinction between the two conflicts in which the country is engaged: the armed truce between the United States and Russia on one hand, and the ideological warfare between Communism and true democracy, on the other...
...broadcast from Peking, Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai spurned the Assembly Cease-Fire Committee's third proposal in four weeks for a truce in Korea. It was a trick, he cried, designed "to give the United States troops a breathing space." He demanded abject U.N. surrender...
Chou's proposition was, in effect, as follows: a truce in Korea must be preceded by agreement to withdraw U.N. forces and turn Korea over to Communist control. In addition, Red China must have the right to take Formosa, plus a voice in other Far Eastern settlements and a seat in the U.N. Such agreement should be negotiated by a seven-power conference, including Russia, Red China, India, Egypt, Britain, France, the U.S., and the conference should be held in China...
Medium or Well Done? Pearson, Rau and Assembly President Nazrollah Entezam of Iran, the third Truce Committee member, brought the new cease-fire plan before U.N. Its first four provisions were little different from the last truce plan. They included an immediate ceasefire, withdrawal of all "non-Korean" troops, and a new Korean government "in accordance with U.N. principles." But Paragraph Five was a stunner. It provided for a Four-Power conference of Red China, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, immediately after the ceasefire, to settle Far Eastern problems "including, among others, those of Formosa...