TRUCE TALKS: New Try

In Korea last week the U.N. suddenly seemed desperately eager to break the deadlock in the truce talks. At the heart of the impasse is the question of repatriating North Korean and Chinese prisoners. The Communists want them all back. The U.N. has taken the position that no prisoner should be forced back to Red territory against his Will. Last week the U.N. senior delegate, Lieut. General William K. Harrison, brought out three new proposals, and asked the Communists to pick any one. Technically, the proposals stood firm on the U.N. position, but actually they came close to scrapping...