Word: truces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they got one-way travel permits and third-class tickets aboard the President Cleveland, bound for San Francisco. When the 21 chose Communism, Defense Secretary Wilson had ordered them dishonorably discharged without court-martial, an unprecedented and possibly illegal move that has yet to be tested in court. Under truce-agreement guarantees, they can never be prosecuted for their choice. But they may have to stand trial for crimes in prison, along with hundreds of other returned "progressive...
...Truce Between Factions. Not for him was the "opening to the left" offered by Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni and his 75 left-wing Socialists. Instead, Antonio Segni concentrated on closing the fissure that threatened to split his Christian Democrats wide open. Right-wing Christian Democrats under ex-Premier Giuseppe Pella had been instrumental in bringing Scelba down. Segni placated them with an offer of two ministries: Finance and Administrative Reform...
...such gain marks the record in Asia. The Korean truce was popular with the U.S. public because it ended the bloodshed and brought the boys home from a war that was getting nowhere. But the Korean truce hurt the anti-Communist cause in Asia; the damage was compounded by the failure in Indo-China. The Geneva agreement, giving much of Viet Nam to the Reds, marked the low point of anti-Communism in Asia. Some observers thought that the descent continued with Eisenhower's expressed willingness to negotiate a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. The President believed that...
...China's gesture was a proclamation that it was ready to let go three of the 21 American P.W.s who had refused repatriation after the Korean truce and who now wanted to get out of Red China. Two of the P.W.s. Otho Bell of Olympia, Wash, and Lewis Griggs of Jacksonville, Tex., intended to come home to the U.S., although they knew that they might have to stand trial...
...Korea, where peace is precarious and the Communists openly defy the truce by moving in forbidden troops and supplies, the U.S. likes to keep an aerial watch on the enemy. The Chinese Communists do not like to have intruders flying over the northern half of the Yellow Sea, in the vicinity of Port Arthur and Dairen or the big MIG base at Antung, but the U.S. insists on its right to fly over international waters...