Show t ONCE OVER OVER- Emil Wonders Who Wins Wigs War WarBy I By H. H I. I Phillips 2 Somewhere in Korea DEAR BABE Well we may have to have a cease fire In fn the fire cease-fire pro pro- All AIl the enemy wants Is our two front teeth Like I was afraid of from the first the whole idea is to switch the Korean war from Irom rom Korea to the foot of Street JQ in Ne New ey York The Reds may even pr p se that we get the whole business business business busi busi- ness back on television under a ChineSe Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese sponsor who will of course be just a volunteer f. f e eYou e eYou J Jr You got the wrong Idea in m n your note asking me about the buffer butIer strip being necessary to an armis armis- tice It has nothing to do with Gypsy Rose Lee A buffer strip Is Isa isa isa a military term and means a stretch of land on each side of the parallel So dont don't worry I have been very busy In my job as a checker with the fire cease-fire delegations delegations delegations but what we need on our side is slicker publicity men The Reds are always trying to rig up the scenery so our side will get the I worst of ot it I suppose you read how howat howat I at the huddles so far we got In to find a load of armed Reds present so the Commie world would get photographs photographs pho pho- that made It look like they was in complete charge and we was apologizing for living That's been changed now but I wouldn't be surprised surprised surprised sur sur- if the Reds doctored up all photos to make it appear like they was Napoleon and we was Howdy Doody Did you get a load of the Red propositions They demand that we bug out back of the parallel LL LL L I T giving up all all that mat a lot lot tH of 01 Jl good gu juu does died for It Is like a guy getting tossed out cut ut of ot a saloon and offering to talk peace If it the fellow who threw him out will leave the saloon All Ml foreign forces to leave Korea as ns soon as possible you know what that means mean Check on the record and see If U you yon can find any case where the Commies ever kept their side of that agreement In this case I It could be an even bigger bigger bigger big big- ger headache because the Reds claim they are not foreign forces but Just visiting volun volun- The only forces to bug out would be our side Far be It from me to be technical Like all the other GIs I want to get out of this gruesome country where a mountain Is just a lump on another mountain But ButI I would rather not get out as a result of taking a a. sucker punch and turning over all the South Korean homeless mothers and kids to the tender mercies of the North Koreans the Red Cl ChInese Chinese Chi ChI- inese i- i nese and Big nig Joe 9 e eIt If It the Reds are leveling the cease fire should take place with both sides holding where they are Otherwise Otherwise Otherwise Other Other- wise In a football game when one side has the ball In enemy territory and time is called out the side making making making mak mak- ing the gain should go back behind its ts own goal posts and start all allover allover allover over again Like I said In fn all the fire cease-fire huddles the Reds beat beatus us to the punch in publicity ty and propaganda They even carried guns to give the idea our brass which carried only cigarettes and Coke was only on a guest panel Peace Is so tough these days that It Is hard to tell It from war and Sherman made the understatement of history when he pulled that one War Is hell Hell could sue Sherman Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- man for libeL The best we seem to get out of wars today Is a return L engagement Hell tiCU is different Once you get out of that you are not expected to come back for an en en- core I hope Love loVI EMERGENCY EMU That P. That plane plan in hot hol pursuit of Dewey y was not nol I bear hear it II was either Taffs Tafts is o or i s. |