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...Korean veteran and ... I have read your article concerning Corporal Edward Dickenson and the 21 American soldiers who have refused to come back to the United States [TIME, Feb. 1]. I personally can't see why the American Government and populace are so concerned...
...Army court-martials Corporal Dickenson, I don't blame the 21 soldiers for refusing to come back. Here we are coaxing and practically begging them to come back; and if they did come back we would probably court-martial them and send them to prison. Is that justice...
...Dickenson's arrest exposed a disagreement between the Defense Department and the Army about the timing - but only the timing-of action against...
...Defense Department order followed an Army announcement last week that it was filing charges against Corporal Edward S. Dickenson. former P.W. in Korea who switched to Communism and then switched back (TIME. Nov. 2). The charges: that Corporal Dickenson dealt "directly and indirectly" with the enemy and sought "favorable treatment" to the detriment of his fellow prisoners. Dicken son. who was in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital for his final Army physical examination, found himself, without ad vance warning, in a locked room under guard. And a little later, the Marine Corps announced that a board of inquiry...
...told an Indian guard: "I'm ill. I want to be taken to the medical-inspection room." Once there, he announced: "I'm all right. I want to be repatriated." Of the 23 original recalcitrants. Batchelor was the second to change his mind. The first. Corporal Edward Dickenson, had already returned to the U.S. and been married (TIME...