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...Commander Mark Clark was determined, with Washington's backing, that the enemy would have to make a hard & fast agreement, at the liaison level, on immediate exchange of disabled prisoners (nicknamed the Little Switch) before he would discuss full-scale resumption of the truce talks (the Big Switch), which he designated as a "second order of business." The Reds acquiesced. To head his liaison group, Clark appointed Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, 53, Annapolis graduate (1924), who has made a solid reputation in the Navy both as desk man and blue-water sailor. Organizer of the Navy...
...Korea, a U.N. liaison officer, called to Panmunjom by the Reds, was handed a startling letter. Dispensing with the usual Communist invective, the Red commanders accepted U.N. Commander Mark Clark's month-old proposal for an immediate exchange of "seriously sick and seriously wounded" prisoners of war, according to the terms of Article 109 of the Geneva Convention. Such an exchange, U.N. officers estimated, might involve about 3,000 of the 123,000 prisoners now held by the U.N. and perhaps 1,000 of the 12,000 prisoners the Communists admit they hold. It was unlikely that more than...
MUNSAN, Korea, Monday, April 6--United Nations and Communist liaison officers met in the truce village of Panmunjom today and began talks on immediate exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of the Korean War--talks that could lead to the end of the 33-month-old fighting...
...young younger sons of aristocratic families with hyphenated names, it is not surprising that the embattled farmers explode with numerous complaints about Nairobi's incompetence and muddle-mindedness. Kenya, though by population a small country, has a baffling superstructure of government departments. "There is no liaison whatsoever," an upcountry district commissioner complained. "God knows what happens to my reports when they reach Nairobi; they never bear the slightest relevance to the instructions I receive afterwards-if I receive...
...able Career Diplomat John M. Allison to be Ambassador to Japan; 2) Arthur F. Burns, a Vienna-born Columbia professor to be his economic adviser; 3) Rear Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, financial adviser to the Rockefellers and former member of the Atomic Energy Commission, to be White House liaison ad viser on atomic energy matters; 4) Douglas MacArthur II, longtime Foreign Service officer, nephew of the general, to be counselor for the State Department...