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...nearer and nearer to what the conferees thought China's Red Boss Mao Tse-tung wanted. In a flurry of cables and transatlantic telephone calls, St. Laurent and Nehru worked out a new cease-fire plan for Korea. They sent instructions to their delegates on U.N.'s Truce Committee, Canada's Lester Pearson and India's Sir Benegal Rau. Nehru himself hesitated at the last moment before endorsing the plan (since a Chinese rejection would pose the implied obligation to do something about it), but St. Laurent finally won him over...
Three Wires. As Wu & Co. took off, the U.N. still refused to believe that he had given Red China's final rejection of a truce in Korea. The General Assembly's three cease-fire commissioners had not yet received an answer to their message asking the Peking government to stop hostilities and meet with them anywhere, even in the Red capital. Undaunted, the commissioners wired again; they assured, Wu's bosses that no "trickery" was intended, implied that a cease-fire order would be rewarded with a discussion of Red China's far-reaching demands...
Nevertheless, Pearson, a tough fighter when the chips are down, had no thought of making a truce with McCarthy. The American Broadcasting Co., which carries Pearson's broadcast, agreed to continue it on a sustaining basis if no sponsor is found. And since newspapers carrying Pearson's column showed no signs of being worried by McCarthy's threats, Pearson went ahead gathering evidence for an all-out attack on McCarthy in his column...
...theocrats tried other emergency action during the week. They were reported sending a truce mission to dicker with the slowly advancing Chinese. They also cabled a petition to the U.N. The petition flatly rejected Communist claims of suzerainty over Tibet, contended that Tibet had "complete independence" from the time of the Chinese revolution of 1911 ("Tibet thereafter depended entirely on her isolation, her faith in the wisdom of Lord Buddha, and occasionally on support of the British in India for her protection"), denounced the Reds' "unwarranted act of aggression," appealed for U.N. aid because "we understand the United Nations...
Williams has been having the opposite kind of trouble. There, freshman and sophomore have been secure in an unbecoming truce. The Williams Record was nagged by the question of which class was stronger...