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...only a fortnight old when the bodies of seven U.S. soldiers captured by the North Koreans were found, shot in the head and with their hands tied behind them. After that, U.N. troops had no illusion about the kind of enemy they were fighting, but no one was quite prepared for the grisly picture of systematic Communist atrocity revealed last week in South Korea...
Energetic Participation. Peiping radio proclaimed last fortnight that a "reformation of Christianity" is under way in China. A declaration issued in July and signed by 1,527 pastors, students, theologians and church leaders, it announced, had warned that "imperialist" countries would try to use "Christianity to carry out provocative, agitational activities and develop reactionary power." To prevent this, the declaration had recommended that Christian churches should be promptly purged of all "imperialistic influence," deprived of all support from abroad,* subjected to compulsory unification of "various sects" and compulsory indoctrination against "imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism...
Furthermore, "selection of the Negro group for this treatment is arbitrary." It is not used against Jews, Mexicans, Poles or other groups, but is "selectively used against the poor and friendless [Negroes]. Ralph Bunche ... is not usually labeled." (But when Bunche won the Nobel Prize a fortnight ago, the Trib noted the newsworthy fact that he is a Negro as did other U.S. newspapers and wire services...
...American League race had been a blazer, but in the closing fortnight the New York Yankees climbed into the lead and stayed there. Last week, three days before the season's end, they clinched their 17th pennant, wound up three games ahead of the faltering Detroit Tigers...
...Seoul, one from the northwest along the north bank of the Han, the other from the southeast through the industrial suburb of Yongdung, south of the river. Before the north prong could get going, a battalion under Lieut. Colonel Robert Taplett-whose outfit had stormed Wolmi Island last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 25)-had to cross the Han. Taplett's men had brought along amtracs (amphibious tractors), but the first crossing was not easy...