adds, the Soviet docu- ment also shows that the assumption-made President Harry Truman's administration and by many scholars-that the initiative for the at- tack came from Stalin is false. "This was Kim I1 Sling's war; he gained Stalin's reluctant approval only after persistent appeals (48 telegrams!)."
The question of who called for war is crucial, in Weathersby's view. By the spring of 1950, she says, "the Truman administration had con-cluded that South Korea was not of sufficient...