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...solidarity when 100,000 of the U.N.'s prisoners, including some 60,000 Chinese and 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...
Colson said he would be willing to deal with a Communist grievance group, presumably headed by Colonel Lee Hak Koo, who seemed to be in charge of the Dodd kidnaping. But he could make no promises about voluntary repatriation as that "is being discussed at Panmunjom...
...have treacherously seized and are illegally holding Brigadier General Frank Dodd. General Dodd is no longer in command of the U.N. P.O.W. enclosure, and has no authority for any decisions or actions...
Release. The Communists ignored the deadline, but they set General Dodd free -"unharmed and in good spirits," according to Van Fleet's bulletin-11½ hours after the deadline, 78 hours after the abduction. Next day, wearing combat boots, fatigue cap and two pistols in his belt, Dodd was flown to Eighth Army headquarters near Seoul for a thorough chewing-out by General Van Fleet. In a press conference in which he read a statement but could not be questioned, Dodd said that any commitments made were "inconsequential...
...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...