MEN AT WAR: Counting on Nothing

As cease-fire hopes at Panmunjom sag or soar, what is happening to the morale of the G.I. in the line? Last week TIME Correspondent Bud Hutton cabled this answer from the Korean front:

TOWARD morning a runner came up from the battalion and said he had heard something over the radio at C.P. about the U.N. making some sort of offer the Chinese might take. "Could amount to ceasefire, if the Chinks go for it," said the runner. "If the Chinks go for it," he repeated.

The Joes standing around George Company's C.P....

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