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By SHEILA LYND

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ner of Korea in Rumania” and
one of the most moving things

they had ever seen.

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children — healthy, beautifuily
clothed, happy and lively-—liv-
ing there with their own school
and Korean teachers,” said Mrs.

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“The Rumanians have built
their own hospital for the children
—a beautiful place, with seven
doctors devoting their time to this
little bit of Korea,” she said.

When the children arrived nine
months ago, she added, 65 percent
were suffering from eye troubles,
and many had malaria and chest
diseases.

Mrs. Martha Ransome, of Stock-
ton-on-Tees, membership secretary
of the Tees-side Women’s Assem-
bly, took up the tale.

“The children have a great air
of dignity and pride about them,”
she said.

“They organize themselves in
little groups, and it was fine to see

them falling into line and begin-
ning to sfig as they walked into
their big dining room, with no
pushing and shoving, and nobody
ordering them about.

“But it brought the meaning
of the war very close to us to
look at all these orphans and
wonder what terrible experi-
ences lay behind their smiles
and songs.”

Mrs. Sylvia Shellard, secretary
of Bristol Assembly of Women,
described the concert the children
had put on for the visitors, includ-
ing delegates from other countries
besides Britain, visiting Rumania
for the May Day selebrations.

The youngest children, from
three to six years old, have their

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own nurseries, said Mrs. Shel-
lard, and 40 Korean teachers
who have accompanied the child-
ren are responsible for their
education.

“The children are to stay in
Rumania until the war is over,”
Mrs. Ransome added, “or until
they have completed their educa-
tion. The 15-year-olds will go back
soon we were told, whatever hap-
pens.

“And we couldn’t help feel-
ing that we were meeting there
some of the young leaders of
the future who will go home to
build a new Korea, on the ter-
rible ruins of this war.”

a subjugated people, and we are
not going to be treated as such
by the Americans or anyone else.

“The long hand of Senator Mc-
Carthy stretches out across the
Atlantic.”

Delegates called for the strong-
est possible condemnation of the
U.S. action and urged representa-
tions to Prime Minister Sir Win-
ston Churchill immediately.

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of the British district commission-
ers to compel Africans to carry
out work with or without payment
“when the present emergency
gives rise to any circumstances
which endangers the existence or

well-being of persons under his’

jurisdiction.” : :

As an alternative to imprison-
ment, Africans can be fined up to
$75, a sum more than the whole
fortune of most Africans.

One of the reasons for the order
is to compel Africans if necessary
to work on the estates of the
European landowners, many of
whose farms are now in extreme
difficulties as their workers have
either been imprisoned or have
returned to their locations.

Designed to get more U.S. dollar aid

Was the “invasion” of Laos a
hoax designed by the French to
get more U.S. dollar aid for the
war in Indochina and seized
upon by warmongering U.S.
leaders (with the support of a
daily press which blew the
stories into screaming head-
lines) to thwart public senti-
ment for peace?

Charles Favrel, correspond-
ent for the French newspaper
Le Monde; says the “invasion”
was a fake for the very good
reason that troops of the Lao-
tian People’s Army, allied with
the Vietnamese People’s Army,
have occupied the greater part
of Laos for the past three years.

For the past three years, he
writes, “the only way of going
from one city to another in Laos
was by plane and no one would
have ventured on the roads
five miles outside Luang Pra-
bang or Vientiane without the
escort of a company, or a bat-
talion or even a regiment of
soldiers.”

There is fighting in Laos (last
week the Laotian People’s
Army captured Muong Khoa)
and in Viet Nam (last week the
Vietnamese People’s Army
penetrated to within 30 miles
of Hanoi and 15 miles of Tour-
ane, French naval base), but
the “invaders” are the people
themselves fighting for inde-

pendence.

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