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...Price of Citizenship." But the Maoris did not die out. Today they are a healthy, thriving people. They are among the leaders of many professions. Racial discrimination in New Zealand is un known, and intermarriage of whites and Maoris is common. Through World War II the Maori Battalion fought in Montgomery's Eighth Army, paying heavily in casualties for what they called proudly "the price of citizenship." Recently, when color-conscious South Africa refused to accept Maoris in a team of touring New Zealand footballers, white New Zealanders were bitterly affronted...
...been greatly exaggerated in press reports [which] have given a completely distorted and misrepresentative picture ..." In the communique, MacArthur for the first time disclosed total U.S. casualty figures, which were undoubtedly smaller than published stories had led most Americans to expect. He also cited the case of the "Lost Battalion," reported as close to annihilation, although "its actual losses amounted to only two killed, seven wounded and twelve missing...
This criticism was less than fair: part of the blame for any distortion or false emphasis rested on the shoulders of MacArthur's own staff. Despite ' repeated requests, it had failed to provide the regular briefings that newsmen needed in order to evaluate the platoon-and battalion-level reports they got from the front...
From a low ridgeline above the Kum River last week, three U.S. correspondents watched an outnumbered, outgunned battalion of G.I.s fight a desperate delaying action. Only one of the newsmen, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, got back to write about it. The others, Ray Richards of Hearst's International News Service and Corporal Ernie Peeler of Stars and Stripes, were killed as they ran for a jeep when the battalion was cut off. Richards was shot through the head, Peeler through the chest. They were the first newsmen to die in the Korean...
...isolated unit of less than one battalion supported by one battery of field artillery, which was at Osan yesterday, was attacked by the best Red division, supported by 40 tanks, which were extremely skillfully maneuvered. The ratio of troops engaged was more than eight to one against the American forces. For more than six hours the American forces held off the invaders until their ammunition was exhausted, and then withdrew . . . The American forces were being enveloped on both flanks. {They} were confronted with a resourceful Red commander who skillfully applied frontal pressure with envelopment...