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...Korean armistice was signed 19 months ago, U.S. reconnaissance air crews carefully photographed the much-bombed North Korean airfields to document an important fact: no Red jets were based south of the Yalu. Since then Russian-made jets have swarmed into North Korean bases. The truce terms specifically forbid all such buildups, but by last week this and other Red violations had become so flagrant that the U.S. and the United Nations Command decided to scrap the futile pretense of truce inspection and supervision...
...sober Socialists, who sometimes talk as if the Red Chinese are just aroused democratic workers on the British model, the government released an official account of the tortures inflicted on British prisoners in Korea by their Chinese captors, including such incidents as taking prisoners onto the frozen Yalu River and pouring water over their bare feet until they froze to the icy surface. The incidents were of a kind painfully familiar to Americans, but rarely mentioned by the British press or government, for fear the truth might be considered too inflammatory...
Overruled. But the U.S., failing to press home its advantages, made error upon critical error, according to the witnesses. The day Chinese "volunteers" swarmed across the Yalu, testified General Mark Clark, "we should have indicated that we were at war with Red China." Attacking Manchurian bases, however, might have triggered a world war. "It might have," said Clark, with Joy concurring. "I do not think it would have...I do not think you can drag the Soviets into a world war except at a time and place of their own choosing. They have been doiqg^too well in the cold...
Lodge displayed a radar map showing that the 6-29 carrying eleven of the imprisoned flyers had been attacked by twelve enemy fighters near the North Korean town of Sonchon, some 15 miles south of the Yalu. Said Lodge: "We do not know where it dropped, but we do know where it was attacked...
...generals, U.S. and foreign, kept publishing their personal accounts, all useful to historians but unlikely to change the main outlines set in past years. More immediate and sobering were the lessons of the war in Korea. Like other top commanders, Mark Clark, in FROM THE DANUBE TO THE YALU, argued that the Korean war should and could have ended in victory instead of an uneasy stalemate that was in effect a defeat...