CEASE-FIRE: Hopeless?

In Paris, Andrei Vishinsky unreeled a long harangue in which he called the Korean truce talks all but hopeless because of the U.N.'s "unreasonable demands." The white-thatched old propaganda monger called General James Van Fleet a "latterday cannibal," added that he was unfit to conduct the truce talks. Since Van Fleet, the Eighth Army's military commander, has no hand or voice in the ceasefire negotiations, Vishinsky's attack was either a willfully silly distortion or a ludicrous mistake.

The impression got around the world that the Kremlin's puppetmasters are plainly preventing, or at...

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