dated March 29, 1951: Gen. MacArthur's truce offer

The Korean tangle was taking a curious turn with the truce offer made by General MacArthur. The British were shocked by the offer and the Daily Herald said that the anxiety felt about the Thirty- Eighth Parallel was not reduced by Gen. MacArthur's comments. News Chronicle declared that while the United Nations forces were ``bumping uneasily'' against the 38th Parallel, General MacArthur had issued another of his ``tactless pronouncements''. The paper added. ``The time has surely come when someone in America should pluck up sufficient courage to tell this gallant but ageing soldier that he has earned a rest''.

General MacArthur created a sensation - though not for the first time - when he announced that as his forces had reached the Thirty-Eighth Parallel and shown their military superiority to the Chinese North Korean forces, he was ready to receive a truce offer from the enemy. Plunging deeper into polities, he had asserted that there was no reason to link the Korean question with Formosa or the admission of China to the United Nations. This statement had been promptly repudiated in Washington.

Propaganda against Tito

Reuter's monitoring station in London reported that Cominform propaganda organs had issued a new call to the 15 million people of Yugoslavia to overthrow Marshal Tito's Government, on March 27. A radio barrage calling for a ``revolt'' was beamed into Yugoslavia from Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, on the occasion of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the rising against the Nazis.

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