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Before the General Assembly's Special Political Committee, Arab delegates charged that "Zionist terrorism" had forced the refugees to flee their homes; the Israelis accused the Arab spokesman of being Nazi-minded. Then, everybody got down to talking figures. They settled finally on $23 million to sustain life in 880,000 people for one year-$5,000,000 more than last year, but $4,000,000 less than the Arabs asked...
...most wretched of the poor in wretched Pusan know that things could be worse. The 600,000 refugees in the city are people who accepted every hardship to flee the North Korean Communists. On Pusan's grimy walls there are no signs denouncing Wall Street imperialism or urging the Yanks to go home...
Reported TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert: "The fear shows clearly in the faces of the few who flee. I have seen the same silent terror in the faces of North Koreans stumbling southward, wading ice-crusted rivers, to escape the Red armies...
...with this morbid added feature, the sneak preview of Mike's film draws laughs in the wrong places and he knows he has produced a flop, and probably his last picture. "It's a dying town . . . the last days of Pompeii . . . The Cadillacs are already beginning to flee the doomed city, carrying the family silver and Picassos...
...Roman Catholicism, permit me to make this comment: I rejoice in the freedom of my particular denomination (Methodist) in that, in obedience to Our Lord's words, it refuses "binding pronouncements" on matters wherein our own intelligence should enlighten and lead; and therefore, I have no desire to flee from this freedom into any system of theological or intellectual bondage...