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Between meetings, the allied delegates were ushered about by Tommy-gun-toting soldiers. When Joy sent a messenger back to the airfield for a briefcase, it took the messenger 90 minutes to break his way through the Communist guards. That night, when Joy and his fellow delegates got back to Munsan, the admiral looked worn and tired, was so preoccupied that he almost walked into the whirring tail rotor of his helicopter...
...concur, my liaison officers, the senior officer of whom will not be above the rank of colonel will depart Kimpo Airfield southwest of Seoul by helicopter at 2300 G.M.T. on July 4 (6 p.m. E.S.T. July 4) or at the same hour on the day agreed upon for this meeting, proceeding direct to Kaesong...
...center, for almost any traveler, whatever his mission, who skirts the edge of China or passes through Mao's bamboo curtain. Onto the British-held island and peninsula pour refugees from the Communist Utopia-in-reverse, agents and opportunists playing their own cautious angles; through its postage-stamp airfield and its busy railway station pass most of the diplomats who scuttle to & from Peking; from its shrewd businessmen go goods for Communist buyers; out of its newsstands and radio sets gush reams and hours of words from Mao's propagandists-intended not for Western newsmen...
...weeks later, the pilot sneaked Mrs. Lassetter aboard a big Dakota transport usually reserved for the private use of Britain's Japanese occupation commander, Lieut. General Sir Horace Robertson.That night she landed at a military airfield in southern Japan. She spent the following day hiding out in a poolroom. "I think you call it pool," she explained later. "Anyway, where they hit something with a stick...
...bless the Marine Corps! They came up in a plane and looked us over. They said the fire was out and we looked fine, except our bomb-bay doors were hanging open. So we got to an airfield and told the tower we'd like to land, except that we might burn...