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...Hinton's experience included Harvard and Cornell, where he majored in dairy farming. In World War II, he bucked the national pattern not by noisy rebellion and not with unshakable conviction. He registered as a conscientious objector because "we ought to help one another . . . instead of killing each other...
...what the war was about . . ." He asked to be classified as eligible for the draft but was found to be 4F (perforated eardrum). He pressed for an overseas war job and got one with OWI, was sent to South China in 1945 to write leaflets and show U.S. movies. Hinton was soon convinced that he wanted to save the Chinese...
...Eyes. In 1947 he went back to South China, began teaching Chinese peasants to operate U.S. tractors. "In Nationalist-held territory," he told the Senators last week, "our work was disappointing. The land belonged to the largest landowners . . . ordinary folk went hungry." On UNRRA orders, Hinton was sent across the battle lines to Communist-held Hopei. Suddenly, even the sun seemed to shine more brightly in his eyes...
...Hinton is still dazzled by the "agrarian reforms." He told the Senators that "the tractors were used to haul water for the aged and widows. Most of the government personnel were out in the fields helping with the work." In 1949 the Communists captured Peking, and Americans saw plainly the cruel, aggressive outlines of the new Red regime. But not William Hinton; he stayed on. "Starting in 1950, I went on salary," he testified. "[At] $75 monthly . . . I was well...
Girl Who Broke. At one point Idaho's Senator Herman Welker introduced the subject of Hinton's sister, Joan. She too went to China, and she and her American husband, Irwin Engst, still are working for the Communists on a dairy farm somewhere in Inner Mongolia...