Everybody Bowed

Last week thousands of Korean Communist soldiers scampered over the 38th parallel which had divided Korea since 1945. There the Reds hoped to sit in safety while Washington and Lake Success argued over a decision which should have been made weeks before.

Home Base. The strange thing about this argument was that it should have occurred at all. Rarely in history had anyone questioned the right of a nation under attack to strike at its enemies' home base. One of the few historical situations similar to that facing the U.N. had developed during the U.S. Civil War when President Abraham...

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