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Radio 4,30 Jun 2000,15 mins

Pursuing a Will-o-the-wisp

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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On the 50th anniversary of the United Nation's Korean War Alistair Cooke remembers the conflict that was often called the "forgotten war", including how the veto clause was written into the UN charter.

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