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...paying no evident attention to the oratory, which has much the flavor of a political campaign in Chicago or Seattle. In America's Korea, as in Chicago or Seattle, free speech has been the rule since the U.S. Army arrived last fall to take charge below the 38th parallel. In fact, U.S. insistence on free speech for Koreans has become the newest impaling post of Soviet-American relations...
...Matter of Semantics. Seven weeks ago a delegation of 120 Russians came down from their zone north of the 38th parallel. They were led by rotund Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, who said: "The Soviet people warmly support ... a free way of life ... for the Korean people." Inside the pillared grey walls of Seoul's Duk Soo Palace, General Shtykov and four top comrades began a series of talks with five U.S. officers, led by strapping Major General Archibald V. Arnold...
...Russians Again. The Japs organized this country thoroughly: the south was the rice bowl, the north was the workshop (see map). Together the two parts formed a working economic entity; separated they are simply out of gear. The split along the 38th parallel is Korea's biggest, most galling problem. The border isn't closed, but no shipments are coming over...
Quickie strikes abound, and an Army officer recently complained that the holidaying Koreans had thought up a Fifth Freedom - freedom from work. Absentee ism can easily be overcome, but raw materials must come from the north (again, the 38th parallel...
...zone in Korea ran up to the 38th parallel. From the Russian zone north of there came reports that Soviet influence was being consolidated by Communists, picked from the thousands of Koreans who had fought in the Red Army. Moscow described the Communists as busily organizing meetings, electing town councils...