Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Russia has stalled U.S. efforts to plan jointly the freedom of a united Korea. But in her zone north of the 38th parallel, Russia has quietly built up a one-party, Communist-led government, trained and armed a big native Korean army (more than 100,000 men). In the South Korean U.S. zone the big Russian delegation (more than too "experts") to the joint U.S.-Soviet Commission in Seoul was supposed to be helping the U.S. to plan Korean unity. Instead, the Russians have spent most of their time organizing South Korean Communists, and setting up an elaborate espionage...
...have offered no working democratic alternative to Communism," continued Baldwin. "We locked up strike leaders. Our present policy is making for a Soviet Korea." Of the Sovietized Korea north of the 38th parallel, Baldwin saw nothing. Although he has defended the civil rights of hundreds of U.S. Communists, the Russians said that a visit from Baldwin would be undesirable...
...Rockbottom budged last week. Foreign Minister Molotov's note to Washington on Korea broke a long deadlock that had made the 38th parallel across Korea the most opaque of all the curtains between the Russian sphere and the rest of the world. It also meant that the world's 13th largest nation could move a step toward the independence it had not known for 40 years and toward the democracy it had never known...
...cloudy afternoon at the sleepy town of Tosong, just south of the mountainous 38th parallel, I renewed an old experience. I watched again-as during last May-the routine phenomenon of people escaping from the Soviet north (2,000 daily...
...Detroit this week. Said he: "The sincerity of the U.S. . . . is on trial in Korea. . . . We have dug in. We shall stay until our mission is accomplished." The military figure of speech was apt. In Korea the U.S. faced the Soviets across a steel line bisecting the country-the 38th parallel. This was the outgrowth of Yalta. To the north were 10,000,000 Koreans under Soviet rule, with nearly all the nation's industrial resources but little agriculture. To the south were 20,000,000 Koreans under U.S. rule, with nearly all the nation's agricultural resources...