Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, not more than seven Communist representatives for each 1,000 prisoners will "explain to all the prisoners of war . . . their rights and ... inform them of any matters relating to their return to their homelands, particularly of their full freedom to return home to lead a peaceful life." The Communist agents will be allowed radio communication with their headquarters, but the neutral commissioners and U.N. observers will be permitted to keep an eye on all the "explaining" sessions...
Communist forces have grabbed more than a dozen outposts from the U.N. since truce talks resumed in earnest five weeks ago. When U.S. troops were attacked they defended their positions well, but eventually withdrew, and launched few counterattacks. One U.S. commander explained why. Said he: "How would I ever explain it if I lost 50 men trying to take back an outpost the day the armistice was signed...
...intelligence were convicted in a Paris court of bamboozling the baron. The judge, however, was impressed. "I congratulate you on your imagination," he told Ringleader Alberto. ". . . How were you able to tell the baron such stupendous tales without ever laughing?" Even Alberto found it a little hard to explain. "He just believed everything," said he. "Even had an asbestos vest made to protect himself from the radiations." The defendants grinned sheepishly and the judge was hardly able to hide a smile himself, as he sentenced Alberto and "Colonel Berthier" to four years in prison, and gave 18 months...
...Mayor Georgacopoulis tried to explain the purpose of the visit to his people. "His people want to make up for their crime," he said. "We must be courteous to him and try to forget the past." The women said little, but that night, as always, they left their jobs in stores, or their work in the meadows and orchards to trudge up the hill to the graves, there to lay fresh flowers, to kneel for prayers, or to light a candle in a little glass and tin box fastened to one of the small white crosses, all inscribed with...
...proposal, North Korean and Chinese prisoners who refuse to return to Red rule-48,500 altogether-will be placed in the custody of a five-nation neutral commission* and guarded by Indian troops. For 90 days, Communist officials will be permitted to circulate among the prisoners to explain away their "apprehensions," as the Reds call them, about going home. If any prisoners state that they want to go home, they will be repatriated, unless the U.N. Command suspects that they have been coerced into changing their stand. The U.N. can appeal dubious cases to a post-armistice political conference...