KOREAN WAR PRISONERS
No Changes In U.S. Policy (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 12.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 20. The Eisenhower Government is standing squarely behind the decision of the former President, Mr Truman, to resist Communist demands for-the forcible repatriation of Korean war prisoners. According to official sources, the Administration, in its current hunt for ways to end the Korean war, has emphatically rejected the idea of “buying” a truce by giving in on the prisoner issue. The Allies now hold 121,000 prisoners. The fate of 30,000 of these who refuse to return to their Communist homelands is the sole issue blocking the truce. All present indications are that the new Administration is not even interested in an early renewal of the armistice talks. . . It is concentrating instead on military and other pressures to make the enemy want an honourable armistice at a later date.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26971, 21 February 1953, Page 7
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