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...North Korean soldiers, voted against repatriation. To retrieve the situation, the Communist high command in North Korea, apparently working through a grapevine to the prisoners on Koje Island, engineered the kidnaping of General Dodd. They also presumably directed the ensuing parleys which produced the astounding message from General Colson that the U.N. had been guilty of "forcible screening" (TIME, May 19), a statement which is either meaningless or untrue...
That was just what Nam II needed. In one of the truce tents Nam read from Colson's message and declared: "Your absurd principle of voluntary repatriation has collapsed in utter bankruptcy...
What should Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd have done when the Communist prisoners on Koje Island seized him? An infuriated Pentagon general said privately last week that, as soon as Dodd was in telephone communication with his successor, Brigadier General Charles Colson, he should have said: "Come in and get me. Use all the guns and force you need. If I die, the hell with it." Even if Dodd had made no such demand, the Pentagon man continued, Colson should have sent a force into the compound. Colson and Dodd would have been heroes, although Dodd might also have been...
...this time, Generals Ridgway, Van Fleet and Mark Clark (who took over the U.N. command during the trouble) were thoroughly indignant. Washington had been consulted, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff immediately started directing the strategy on Koje. Twenty tanks were sent to the island, prepared for trouble. General Colson sent another and much firmer message to the Red rebels...
Dodd stood little chance of getting his command back. What would happen to General Colson, who had given the Reds so handsome a propaganda weapon with his strange acknowledgment of "instances of bloodshed," was not yet known...