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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers with Tommy guns halted a U.N. convoy because it included a truckload of reporters. That was but an incident. The larger fact was that the Communists were insolently creating an atmosphere of victors receiving the vanquished. In the swept-eaved building which used to be the Reai Bong Chang restaurant, the U.N.'s negotiators met under the guns of Communist guards. Unarmed, U.N. negotiators drove under a white flag where armed Communists let them drive...
...detailed picture of what it was like inside. The North Korean delegation head, General Nam II, smoked incessantly at the green baize table. On his right were the two Chinese, Teng Gua and Hsieh Feng, and on his left the two other North Koreans, Lee Song Cho and Chang Pyong San. The U.N. delegation was seated similarly, with Admiral Joy opposite...
...been successful. The actual cease-fire negotiations would get under way at Kaesong on Tuesday of this week. At this meeting, the U.N. team will be headed by Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy (see box). The Communist delegation will be composed of three North Koreans, General Nam II, General Chang Pyong San and Major General Lee Sang Cho, and two Chinese, Generals Teng Hua and Hsieh Fang...
...Kaesong. In the conference room, the U.N. men found a table with five chairs on each side. There were no pictures of Stalin, no poster propaganda of any kind. The atmosphere was courteous but unbending and stiff; the Communist delegation was composed of a North Korean colonel named Chang Chun San and two lieutenant colonels, one North Korean, one Chinese (plus two interpreters). Chang, a trim man in a green, Russian-style uniform with red shoulder boards, did all the talking for his side...
...when the Communist power in China was at the lowest ebb, Chou's smooth talk and persuasive manner captured a fighting force of 150,000 men right out of the Nationalist fold. This was the army of the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Chou converted thoroughly to the Communist cause. In a daring coup, the Young Marshal kidnaped Chiang Kaishek, hoping thereby to put a stop to the fighting. Chiang's eventual release, engineered with typical tact by Chou on orders from Moscow, resulted in one more marriage of convenience between the Nationalists and Communists in their...