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...central Korea, a party of U.S. soldiers and correspondents stopped beside a weathered wooden post. On the post was stenciled in orange paint "U.S. 47." "That's Marker 47," said a G.I. "Over the hill there's another one. That's all there is to the 38th parallel. Just a few posts...
Said Dr. Kimm: "I've come back feeling very much encouraged ..." Mr. Kim still feared that U.N.-sponsored elections in South Korea would split the country permanently at the 38th parallel, but he said: "We promise not to encourage strife...
...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...
...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...