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BÜFFER ZONE FOR
38th PARALLEL
FLATLY REJECTED BY
U.S.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1
(A_A.P.).-The Secretary of
State (Mr. Dean Acheson) to-
day flatly rejected the Com-
munist proposal that a buffer
zone should be established in
Korea along the 38th parallel.
He told a Press conference
of the Communist wishes to
return to the line over which
they had launched their un-
provoked attack on June 25,
1950, to start,, the Korean
war and said this was not
acceptable.
' -'Mr. * -Acheson said thàt~ " fÛè
Secretary for Defence (Gener¡a¿
George Marshall) had made it
entirely clear that any demarca-
tion line must be a defensible
line, but events had shown that
this was not ; true of the 38th
parallel.
He said the cease-fire talks at
Kaesong were essentially mili-
tary talks, but the Communists
I had been trying to use them for
political purposes. Mr. Acheson
i said the cease-fire talks seemed
to have stalled rather than dead-
locked.
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