Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Cease-fire Commissioners Rau, Pearson and Entezam fixed their eyes on the door's crack, decided to keep trying this week. They reported that they had sent a cablegram to Peking, offering to meet the Chinese Reds any place they chose, presumably even in their own capital. They still hoped that Wu had not given his side's final answer...
Monroe Doctrine. Next day (Tuesday), with the backing of twelve other Asian and Middle Eastern nations, Sir Benegal read his recommendation to the General Assembly: "The President of the General Assembly to constitute a group of three persons including himself to determine the basis on which a satisfactory cease-fire in Korea can be arranged . . ." He also reported on his four "fairly long" interviews with Red China's Wu Hsiu-chuan. Sample dialogue...
...colleagues, Rau commented: "[The Chinese Communists] seem to be moving toward a kind of Monroe Doctrine for China . . ." In the next two days, the Assembly overwhelmingly approved the cease-fire resolution. Only Russia's Jacob Malik objected. He insisted on withdrawal of all U.N. forces from Korea. Ceasefire, he cried, was "merely a camouflage designed to make it possible for American forces to continue . . . their act of armed aggression...
...Korea is that it can hold tight perimeters at relatively small cost to itself while inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. Some Pentagon men were saying last week that Mao Tse-tung would not like to pay the price of prolonged sieges of U.S. beachheads, buttressed by all the fire power that artillery, airplanes and warships could bring to bear. And even if the Chinese should force the U.N forces to abandon the Seoul-Inchon perimeter, they would have a still harder nut to crack at Pusan. The farther south they go, the longer their supply lines would...
Season in the Sun, a play by the "New Yorker's" witty drama critic, Wolcott Gibbs, is the outstanding farce of the season. It concerns life on Fire Island and is acted by a fine crow of competent performers...