DETAILS OF TRUCE
Enemy And U.N. Staff Talks (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) l(Rec. 11 p.m.) SEOUL, July 20. Communist and United Nations staff officers met at Panmunjon today to discuss technical details concerning the Korean armistice. The meeting followed yesterday’s request by the Communists for immediate talks to prepare for the signature of an armistice pact to end the three-year-old war. Allied officers said that Communist troops resumed work, today on the foundations of the large building expected to be used for the truce signing_ ceremony. They stopped work on the building last month after the South Koreans released 27,000 prisoners-of-war.
The staff officers split into two groups for this morning’s meeting on technical details of the armistice. One group met for 27 minutes and then handed over the business to the interpreters of both sides. The second group, led by a Marine, Colonel James Murray, met their Communist opposite numbers for nearly an hour, in two sessions.
Reports in Seoul today said that the South Korean President, Dr. Syngman Rhee, who has consistently opposed the truce will not hinder it any longer.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27097, 21 July 1953, Page 9
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