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South of the Yalu. The heart of the U.S. case, as presented by Ambassador Lodge, rested on an explicit clause of the Korean armistice agreement, which required the return to their homelands of all prisoners of war who desired repatriation. There was no doubt in the Communists' mind about the meaning of this. On Aug. 31, 1953 their representatives on the Military Armistice Commission said: "Our side has repeatedly stated that our side will repatriate before the conclusion of the repatriations operation all captured personnel of your side who insist on repatriation, including those prisoners of war who have...
...Life. Eleven of the 13 Americans had been on the same plane, a B-29 shot down high over the Yalu 22 months ago. Colonel John K. Arnold Jr., commander of the 581st Air Resupply and Communications Wing, was aboard. The Chinese said that he confessed that the mission of his wing was "the introduction, supply, resupply, evacuation or recovery of underground personnel." The U.S. story is that Arnold's group was engaged in psychological warfare on a routine leaflet-dropping mission, that Colonel Arnold and his operations officer, Major William H. Baumer, went along for the ride...
...shelling Quemoy, the offshore Nationalist stronghold; this month the shelling died down, and Chiang held back his air punch pending the next round. In any case, the U.S. has no intention of chaining down his forces. Robertson, asked if he had discussed the "reneutralization of Formosa" or the "socalled Yalu River sanctuary," brushed them off as "a couple of catchy phrases that don't mean much." Choosing his words with care, he declared: "I will say that I know of no place in the world today where Communism can attack with impunity...
...narrative adds little to the public record. At Inchon, notes Author Willoughby, MacArthur took the North Koreans in the rear "in the classical Napoleonic pattern"-just like the dazzled Austrians at Treviso. But the Supreme Commander pushed on, never believing that the Chinese Communists would strike south across the Yalu River. By the time MacArthur could pull his retreating forces together again, Truman fired him for insisting that the Korean war could (and should) be fought on to victory. History may decide that MacArthur was right. Authors Willoughby and Chamberlain have produced no new documents or arguments to forward...
...sufficient air, bombardment, fighters, reconnaissance, that I could have taken out all those supplies, those airdromes on the other side of the Yalu; I could have bombed the devils between there and Mukden, stopped that railroad operating, and the people that were there fighting could not have been supplied. But we weren't permitted to do it. You get in a war to win it; you do not get into a war to lose it. And we were required to lose it. General Van Fleet had them on the run and he could have taken them and he wasn...