Atlanta Daily World

Allied Truce
Talks Still

MUNSAN-(INS)-
The Allies
accused Red armistice negotiators of stalling in staff officer discussions following a one hour and 40-minute meeting Tuesday that produced no significant progress.

The Allied spokesman, Lt. Col. Joseph J. Borchert, told newsmen that the Communists were keeping the discussion of "trivialities." He added:

"I think they are stalling. They are taking time with trivial matters that could be handled by interpreters."

The meeting was taken up with what the senior Allied staff officer, Col. Duncan S. Somerville, called "minutae."

The Communists called for the staff discussions four days ago to work on the wording of the draft armistice agreement.

Col. Somerville said he was still hopeful that the Communists might bring forth some new and important proposal in the staff discussions dealing with the prisoner question, the issue blocking an armistice. So far, he said, they have not.

Somerville said the Reds think "they can make progress by putting fancy rosebuds on the chariot when we have no wheels on the thing yet."

In the meeting itself, the blunt
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spoken artillery officer told the Communists:

"We are here to try to resolve an important matter which requires good faith by both sides. But we are here to establish surreptitiously a technicality in an obscure paragraph for bargaining purposes or to delay and confuse the valid issue."