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Latest to come home of the 23 American turncoats who went over to the Communists at Panmunjom in 1953,* they returned to the free world when they walked across the international line into Hong Kong on Dec. 2. They were penniless, homesick and sullen and they wanted only to be home for Christmas. The U.S. State Department provided the means: non-interest-bearing loans to cover their $636 airline tickets...
...inevitable questions Arlie had ready answers-for both of them. Why had he gone over to the Communists? "Curiosity. I wanted to take a look at China. I was just an adventuristic young kid." Why, after three years, had he changed his mind? His family needed him, he was homesick. And there were other reasons: while working in a Chinese People's Republic paper plant at Tsinan, he had met Cho, a coworker, and they enjoyed each other-until Cho uncommunistically began to hint of marriage. "If I had married her," said Arlie. "I might not have been able...
...speech made by Dr. Merritt's friend, one Albert Shoemaker, has the uncanny accuracy of sentimentality and vernacular inflection that perhaps only O'Hara can command. Anyone who has lived in a small town can read it with an absolute guarantee that it will make him as homesick as the smell of leaves burning on an autumn evening...
...remaining U.S. prisoners of war who chose to stay in Red China after the Korean truce. At People's University, where they are dragging out their third lonely year studying the Chinese language, he was allowed to take the pictures shown here. Pabel found the turncoats homesick, living on $40 a month each given them by the Chinese Red Cross. Afraid to return to the U.S., however, they still praise Red China's virtues, seem determined to make the best of it among their hosts "till the political climate changes back home...
Amidst bustling all about the U.S. and the Caribbean area last year, blithe-spirited British Playwright-Actor-Composer Noel Coward got homesick and visited Britain for eight weeks. High price of gratifying his nostalgia: $70,000, the amount that Britain's revenooers collected from him because he had set foot on the tight little isle.* Last week, on his way to France by ocean liner, Expatriate Coward gazed fondly through a porthole when his ship put in at Plymouth. "Ah, this beautiful England!" sighed he. "One step on dear old England...