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...this point, chief U.N. Negotiator Vice Admiral Joy said: "I propose the agenda be adopted." North Korean General Nam II chimed in, "We agree." The agreed agenda: 1) establishing a military demarcation line between the two armies, 2) setting up an authority to supervise the truce, 3) exchange of prisoners...
...next session, the negotiation got down to Item No. 1. Vice Admiral Joy produced two maps showing the demarcation line the U.N. wanted. He and Nam II bent over the table, their heads almost touching as they studied the maps. The two sides clashed almost immediately. The Communists wanted to draw the demarcation line along the old North-South Korean boundary, the 38th parallel. If they could swing this, they would be able to trumpet to the world that the war had ended where it began; it would also win for the Reds much valuable real estate, for U.N. units...
...five years the French have had some of their best fighting forces (including paratroopers, airmen, Moroccan infantrymen) tied up in Indo-China, fighting Reds. But only 40,000 Indo-Chinese volunteers are fighting alongside the French. Last week, prodded by French Commander General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Viet Nam's Chief of State Bao Dai moved at last to bring the entire country into the war against the Communists. Bao Dai ordered full mobilization of all men between 18 and 60. First draft call: 60,000, beginning Oct. 16. Ultimate goal: a national Viet Nam army...
...Viet Nam veterans now serving with the French will provide noncoms and combat officers. Under the mobilization decree, all Vietnamese doctors, pharmacists, dentists and veterinarians may be called up; skilled technicians, lawyers, journalists, photographers will be put on the reserve lists. The French hope that the mobilization decree will blast some of Indo-China's young intellectuals off their ideological fence. De Lattre's ringing challenge to them: "Be men. Pick your sides. If your sympathies are with the Viet Minh go into the mountains and join them. If they are not, then join the new Vietnamese army...
Behind the delegates were their aides, and behind them secretaries and short hand reporters. After Joy spoke, always from a manuscript, an interpreter repeated his remarks in Korean, a short paragraph at a time. Nam's words were translated into both English and Chinese for the comrades from behind the Yalu...