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...incredible story of chaos and bloodshed in the U.N.'s prison stockades, of almost complete lack of U.N. control, continued to emerge last week. On top of the disgraceful Dodd-Colson affair came new light on prisoner cabals that scorned interference by U.N. guards. Worst of all, observers were beginning to realize that the prisoner vote on repatriation, which at first had seemed the only creditable and politically valuable aspect of the whole affair, had not been arrived at by the U.N. in a true and careful polling, but was in some-cases a rough & ready guess...
Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. told a Senate committee that "the entire Army" was "deeply shocked" by the capture of Camp Commander Francis T. Dodd by his prisoners. Both Dodd and Brigadier General Charles F. Colson, who agreed to the compromising ransom terms, were busted to their permanent rank of colonel. To Colson's immediate superior, Brigadier General Paul F. Yount, went a formal "administrative reprimand...
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...
...Tokyo's Haneda airport, General Mark Wayne Clark, the new Far East commander, watched his predecessor, General Matt Ridgway, fly happily off to the U.S., leaving Clark with a mess on his hands. Ample portions of blame had already been meted out to the two squirming brigadiers, Dodd and Colson, but some blame would undoubtedly fall on Ridgway and on the Eighth Army's Van Fleet...
This week U.S. guards were still staying out of the Communist stockades. The prisoners were still displaying flags and signs. The ringleaders from other compounds who had been admitted to compound 76 (where the Dodd abduction occurred) were still there, and refused to leave. If Bull Boatner could rectify those matters without further violence, he would be a very exceptional general indeed...