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army they had thought one of the best -
in Asia. They are officers and men of
the Korean Military Advisory group. —UP
correspondent Jack James from head-
quarters of the U.S. Army Forces in Korea.

The (American) soldiers said they felt
the entire Korean countryside was either
passively or, actively hestile. —New York
Times correspondent Walter Sullivan from
Korea, July 19. ~ :

Guerillas in the white garb of farmers
littered the ridges on both sides and
machine-gun nests peppered the (Ameri-
can) convoy. —New York Herald Tribune,
Paris edition, report from Tokyo, July 21.

Ten days of jitters, accidents and infil-
tration have made the Korean war a prob-
lem campaign that defies all the rules
of normal military. teaching. Americans
and South Koreans have been strafed by
planes of both sides, and trigger-happy,
‘South Koreans have fired at American
transports flying overhead. South Korean
guards have been shooting at anything
in sight and asking questions afterward.
Both Americans an Koreans were caught

.. on the Han River bridge last week when
it was blown up without warning 0on Or-
ders from the Korean General Staff. In
some spots the front lines have been
safer than the rear. —UP correspondent
Peter Kalischer reports from “Somewhere
in Korea.” :

On some (South Korea) trucks I saw
senior South Korean unit commanders
sitting among their ‘troops wearing white
gloves and carrying official swords in one
hand and in the other a tree branch held
over their heads like an umbrella... .
—Sidney Smith in London Daily Express,
July 5. ; ;

United States forces, as they have arrwv-
ed in the area, have fought with great
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IT’S NO TIME TO BE A KOREAN,
BECAUSE YANKS SHOOT AT ’EM ALL,

. .. Since the South Korean army wears
the American uniform this confounds the
confusion of this highly confused war.
Nervous American troops ‘are inclined to
shoot any “Gook.” At first, this morning,
American artillery opened up on refugees
waiting by the broad shallow Kum River,

a where our troops are now dug in. It’s no

time to be Korean—North or South.—Keyes

Beech, special correspondemt in Korea for

the Newark Star-Ledger. ‘

It is conceded, from general down to
private, that we have under-estimated the
“Gooks,” the term of contempt the Ameri-
can GIs learned to apply to people of
a different color during the last war.—New-
ark Star-Ledger, July 13.

Lieutenant McCarver... told how his
Men shot down a sniper, then discovered
to their amazement that the sniper had
a live two-year-old infant tied in Korean
fashion to his back, The bullet had passed
through the sniper’s neck inches above
the infant, “We thought we had a boy
mascot,” said Lieutenant McCarver, “and
it wasn’t until we bathed the kid later
that we discovered it was ‘a girl.”—New
York Herald Tribune correspondent on
“military exploits” of U.S. troops in Korea,
July 22. i * :

Suknioah ground units in Korea are
fighting one of the most skilful and heroic
holding and rearguard actions in history.
—Announcement from General Mac-
Arthur’s headquarters, July “13. ‘

The Army troops have been conducting
a very difficult. delaying operation mt
skill and determination... |

It is fine if we can hold a junction. If you
cannot hold you have got to make plans _
about which way you are going to with-
draw, —A military headquarters briefing
fficer at Washington, as quoted by AP.
: These Asiatics are showing none of the

: fearful respect either for the attacking

air force or for American ground troops
Which American experts in Tokyo had
: hopefully expected. They even had the ef- ~
frontery to trap an American battalion.—
London Daily Express, July 10.

I think it is important that the nature of
cur military action in Korea be under- .
stood...

The Communist forces of North Korea
are advancing into an area.that has been
fattened with more than $400,000,000 worth
f American economic aid since the war.
++. The government of the (South Kor-
ean) republic has at times appeared more
Of a hindrance than a help to economic
recovery, In April of this year, the United
States threatened to cut down on
Program for Korea unless the government
acted to curb growing inflation based on
internal mismanagement. . . . —New York

Tribune, Paris edition, June 27.

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America’s position in Asia has shown
signs of desperation ... and the collapse
of Chiang Kai-shek and the attempts to
bolster up Bao Dai have increased her
difficulties. If she allowed South Korea
to fall, then her prestige in Asia would
suffer in consequence. —July issue of East-
ern World, London.

If Chiang is corrupt, what of Siam? If
Chiang is “reactionary,” what of Bao Dai
whom we are backing to the hilt in Indo-
china? Ever since the U.S. intervened in
Greece it has, or should have, outgrown
the idea that it can only support govern-
ments which are letter-perfect. If we are
to play our. part as order-keeper for the
world, we shall have to back our friends
where we find them, —Barrons, New York,
June 19, za 8

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President Syngman Rhee had gone far to
deserve the title of a “little Chiang Kai-
shek” conferred on him by his critics, and
there had been no lack of voices in America
to urge that American support for Korea
be withdrawn before Korea went the way
of China and involved the American na-
tion in fresh humiliation and loss. But of-
ficial Washington took a different view. . .-

—London Economist, July 1.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson said
the state department, on orders from Pres-
ident Truman, has drafted a big new in-
formation program “to use the great power
of truth in working for peace.”

General Eisenhower, citing the need for
such a program, said the United States
moved into Korea with the “very best
intentions,” but the move had been “so
twisted by shrewd propagandists” for the
Communists that it had been made to look
like a “vicious act” of American imperial-
ism.—AP report from Washington, July 5.

Criticism of command decisions or of
the conduct of Allied soldiers on the battle-
field will not be tolerated. —General Mac-
Arthur’s rules for newspaper correspon-
dents with the U.S. forces in Korea. ~-

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It should be made perfectly clear that the
(U.S.) action was undertaken as a matter
of basic moral principle . . .

Twelve hundred Communists and sus-
pected Communists have been executed by
South Korean police since the outbreak
of hostilities, Kim Tai Sun, chief of the
National South Korean Police, said to-
day. Those executed were considered “bad
security risks,” he said. Mr. Kim, accom-
panied by a bodyguard, inspected United
States positions along the Kum River line.
He told correspondents that it was his
responsibility to see that security was
maintained immediately behind the front-—
line fighting forces. The executions of
Communists were carried out on his orders
“in Seoul and other towns in the battle
area,” Mr. Kim stated. —New York Times,
July 14

What is happening to the Americans
in Korea is simply a revenge for Nurem-

because they had prepared World War II
on Hitler’s orders, and then demand from
your own generals that they themselves
prepare World War III.—Die Weltwoche,
Zurich, July 21. -

Concluded on page 10

~ Canadian Director, Fur and Leather Workers Union

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