The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-05
Truce Talks Saturday
May End War In Korea
''PEACE FEVER"
is IN THE AIR
BUT SOUTH KOREA
HOLDS TO VIEWS
BY ROBERT 3. TucKMAN

~NSA ~A6AANAA6 aPPCd1CQ C1OSG To-
day. A fateful truce meeting to.
morrow could almost write an end
to three years of war and death,
The Communists were reported
to have submitted terms so close
to those of the U. N. Command
that an armistice might be signed
by June IS, third anniversary Of
this war that already taken an
awesome toll.
Minor details must be ironed
out, but peace fever" was in the
air here as well as other Allied
capitals.
A high U. S. official in Tokyo
said an agreement to exchange
prisoners likely will be signed
Saturday. However, a truce could
not be signed before next week, he
added.
Allied and Red negotiators meet
in the tiny hut in Panmunjom
Saturday at IL a. m. g .. m.
Friday EST.
However, there was one Earring
and bitter dissent to the optim.
ism. President Syngman Rhee's
South Korean government stub.
bornly opposed the truce terms
although Rhee has said he would
cooperate ''at any cost with the
II. s.
Gen. Mark Clark, U. N. Far East
commander, flew to Seoul from his
Tokyo headquarters and conferred
with Rhee, possibly in an eleventh
hour attempt to overcome the
opposition Of the aging, but fiery,
president.
They talked for an hour but
there was no announcement after
the meeting. Pyun Yung Tai, South
Korea's acting foreign minister,
and u. S. Ambassador Ellis o.
Briggs were also present.
Clark flew back to Tokyo after
the conference.
Clark met earlier with 1t. Gen.
William X. Harrison, chief Allied
armistice delegate, and Ii. Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor, Eighth Army
commander.
He also conferred with Mai. Gen.
Thomas Herren, commander of the
Korean communications zone and
the man in charge of Allied-held
prisoners.
A reporter called to Clark as he
drove away: Anything to say,
generaI2"
mot a thing, sorry" Clark called
back, through the open window Of
his car.
He declined any comment on the
armiStice negotiations and reports
of an imminent truce.
Harrison new from Munsan 10
Seoul to confer with Clark. then
returned to the advance u. N.
armistice headquarters.
Leaders Of the South Korean
government were represented as
resigned TO q truce soon on terms
unacceptable 10 them.
They we're said 70 be taking the
position they would not recognize
an armistice but that they would
not offer physical resistance.
Eighth Army headquarters was
rushing preparations for exchange
Of prisoners Of war.
The prospects for an imminent
truce sprang from . stKi-offieiaily.
secret Allied proposal made May
Is 10 settle the fate If $50 Chi.
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willing to return 10 their Red
ruled homeiands.
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terms as 10 amount 70 virtual
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