A truce in Korea seemed to be at hand and, for an end to the bloodletting, the U.S. would be grateful. But, as the negotiators at Panmunjom signed an agreement on the exchange of prisoners and prepared to issue a cease-fire order (see INTERNATIONAL), there was little U.S. elation. Presidential Aide Sherman Adams, delivering a commencement address at St. Lawrence University, struck a note of sober warning. "At the moment of a Korean truce," he said, "we shall be in danger. There will be nothing in the terms of such a truce...
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