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Communist Correspondents Alan Winnington and Wilfred Burchett, serving as stage managers, did their best to liven the proceedings: "Hi. Al. Hello, Dick, how's everything?" But as prisoner after prisoner stood before the TV and newsreel came:as. each repeated the same, dull set piece: "We believe that our greatest task is to keep the peace and win democracy for our people, but if we return, our voices would be silenced. That is why we are here...
...repat" P.W.s had nothing to say to the American newsmen, but Communist Correspondent Wilfred Burchett of Paris' L'Humanite busily distributed a statement signed by all of them. "Our staying behind does not change the fact that we are Americans," it read. "We love our country and our people. [But] the murder of the Rosenbergs, the legal lynching ... of dozens of ... Negroes . . . are the best comments we can make to . . . the American tradition of freedom...
...Mothers. Sticking to its decision to sit on the names and addresses of the 23 Americans, even though Burchett's list revealed them, the U.N. command nevertheless riffled through its files and pieced together a composite picture: they come, mostly, from middle-income families, nearly all are in their 20s; many have high-school educations, all profess one form of religion or-another. Seven come from cities or large towns, 16 from small towns, villages or backwoods communities; eleven come from Southern states, three of them are Negroes; almost all have names that are American from way back. Most...
...places that had once been home to the men on Burchett's list, the reaction was the same wrenching disbelief. "We don't believe it . . ." "It just couldn't be." "They're holding him against his will." In Alden, Minn., the mother of Pfc. Richard Tenneson, 21, told reporters, "If I could talk to him for ten minutes, I could at least make a dent in that kind of thinking." Mr. & Mrs. Van Buren Dickenson, the parents of Corporal Edward Dickenson, 23, sat in stunned sadness in their home in Cracker's Neck, Va. like...
Peking radio promptly dismissed the list as a "fake." But three days later, U.N. suspicions were confirmed. Australian-born Wilfred Burchett, correspondent for the French Communist paper, L'Humanité, wandered into Panmunjon to chat with U.N. correspondents. Communist Burchett, whom many U.S. newsmen remembered as a competent reporter for Australian Associated Press during the Pacific war, had previously acted as a news "leak" for the Communists. This time, he carefully let slip the fact that the Chinese were still holding an unspecified number of U.S. airmen who had allegedly been shot down over Chinese territory beyond the Yalu...