THE NATION: Three Handy Sizes

Ever since Stalin's death, the Kremlin gang had been passing out a carefully blended mixture of honey and vinegar which seemed to signal a softening of Soviet foreign policy. The first clues to the new Communist policy were small and ambiguous. Last week, however, came two stronger indications of a new line.

In 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...

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