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...Bella V. Dodd is a fiery, black-haired lawyer who once taught political science at Manhattan's Hunter College. She helped found the stridently left-wing New York Teachers' Union, in 1944 openly joined the Communist Party. To the Daily Worker, she was "tops, A-1 in'party circles," was even elevated to the national committee of the Communist Party. Then, in 1949, her career suddenly fell apart. The party expelled her for "fascist and anti-working-class activity." One of her former colleagues spat in her face...
Koje Island's new prison commandant, a first-class combat man, emerged last week as a soldier who could also use his wits in the most disagreeable of rear-area jobs. Boldly and shrewdly, Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner had chosen Compound 76, scene of the Dodd-Colson coup, as the first to be tackled in bringing order to the prison. After the bloody battle in which Compound 76's 6,000 hard-core Communists were subdued (TIME, June 16), the other tough enclosures on Koje toppled like ninepins, with no further fighting between guards and prisoners...
...Lemaire ("Bull") Boatner was ready for his big test on Koje Island. He intended to break up the big compounds, and he decided to start with the 6,000 hard-core North Koreans in Compound 76-the gang that engineered the abduction of Brigadier General (now Colonel) Francis T. Dodd. To impress 76's inmates, he staged a rehearsal with tanks and flamethrowers in an empty compound next to theirs. The prisoners answered by digging chest-deep trenches and continuing to turn out steel-tipped spears and other crude weapons on their hidden forge...
...first time since the Dodd kidnaping, Boatner sent troops into one of the hard-core compounds. The North Korean officers of Compound 66 had built two corrugated tin huts which they seemed to be using as a command post and medical dispensary. After a tear-gas barrage had driven prisoners back from the wire, unarmed British troops in jaunty green berets went in, under the protection of U.S. guards with bayonets at the ready, and smashed the huts with axes, hatchets, sledges, crowbars. Nobody got hurt, but next day a prisoner work detail from Compound 96, carrying sewage buckets...
...eerie cacophony. Twelve Chinese carrying flowers made of G.I. toilet paper shuffled out of the compound to the camp cemetery. Boatner approved the procession; in return, the Communists agreed to remove insulting anti-U.N. slogans from the barbed wire fence.* In Compound 76, the scene of General Dodd's imprisonment, unidentified corpses, presumably anti-Communists murdered by Red ringleaders, were cremated in a funeral pyre, 40 ft. long and 6 ft. wide...