ABSTRACT
on July 5, Eisenhower’s Acting Majority Leader, William Knowland, resumed his more familiar stance by blaming both Truman and Ike for a “breach” with Rhee. The Koreans would be released as civilians with the signing of the armistice, but the Chinese would be placed under the jurisdiction of a neutral-nations repatriation commission. Flanders was virtually the stereotype of New England conservative individualism, whose temperament and inclinations were not too remote from the progressives of his youth, William Jennings Bryan, Albert Beveridege, Robert LaFollette and Woodrow Wilson. The American Legion’s National Executive Committee, at a convention in Indianapolis, demanded an all-out war in Korea “in the event of failure to reach a satisfactory peace.” “Where necessary,” it said, “the United Nations Command will, to the limits of its ability, establish military safeguards to insure that the armistice terms are observed.”
