Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going into battle watched the wounded going the other way. It was a brutal way to move fresh troops into position, but there was no other. The new wave came up unsmiling, and with not a little fear in their young faces...
...enemies. I am not presuming to issue righteous indictments-or to ignore the even greater savagery of the North Korean army. I am simply stating the elementary facts of war in Korea. The South Korean police and the South Korean marines whom I observed in front line areas are brutal. They murder to save themselves the trouble of escorting prisoners to the rear; they murder civilians simply to get them out of the way or to avoid the trouble of searching and cross-examining them. And they extort information-information our forces need and require of the South Korean interrogators...
...Asia (and which, in the minds of some well-meaning Americans, could be cured by "land reform"); nor was it merely a matter of political unrest caused by war and undigested Western ideas; nor merely of outright Communist military attack. It was all these things together, plus the simple, brutal fact that Asia was in chaos. Millions in Asia are not only not sure where the next day's bowl of rice is coming from they cannot be reasonably sure whether they will see a next...
West Berlin's anti-Communist press called the treaty "treason." The Western Allies ignored the agreement. The U.S. did not object to the return of the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia-it did condemn the brutal expulsion of its German inhabitants, most of whom now crowd Western Germany...
...feel the situation -feel sick and weak when you learn someone you know has been arrested, nauseated by a note summoning you to a police station, angered every time you see one of those unmistakable men in brown leather coats [the STB-Czechoslovak Secret Police] . . .[The police] are rarely brutal. But I know or know of persons who have been beaten, persons who have been questioned for 24 hours . . . where the sound of other people being beaten in the next room could be heard...