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...edge of the demilitarized zone, the North Koreans will be met by South Korean officials, whisked aboard trains and taken to Kunsan and Pohang, where they may (if they choose) be inducted into the ROK army. The Chinese prisoners will be met by Nationalist officials, trucked to Inchon and loaded on U.S. Navy LSTs bound for Formosa...
This typical Communist strategy was demonstrated to the world last August. The Korean armistice ended a round in which the Reds had taken the initiative, lost it at Inchon, regained it by the Red Chinese invasion, and settled down to a military stalemate translated by the armistice to a political stalemate. The U.S., by warning that it would not tolerate a new or stepped-up Red aggression, cramped the Kremlin's next move. Could the anti-Communist side, taking off from Panmunjom, find a politial initiative? It did not find one. Instead, the U.S. and Britain locked horns...
After all the unhappy stories of informers and "progressives" among American prisoners in Communist hands, the hardy and happy released prisoners who jumped out of the trucks at Inchon last week had a different tale to tell-candid, bitter, and heartening. They were inmates of tough Camp Three at Changsong on the Yalu. They were the anti-Communist "reactionaries" who resisted indoctrination...
...soldiers who crossed the line to freedom at Panmunjom last week were a smiling, happy, joking lot, plainly pleased to be on the way home. But back at the big processing shed in Munsan, and in the hot interview tents at Inchon, some of the stories they told took an ugly turn...
...timid, thankful repatriates told their stories at Munsan and Inchon last week, one fact became increasingly clear: the Chinese Communists have waged a ceaseless battle for the minds of their captives. Whatever cruel or gentle things the Chinese did, their purpose was to convince the P.W.s that the U.S. started the war, that the Chinese "volunteers" were their friends, that the U.S. was conducting germ warfare and had massacred North Korean and Chinese prisoners. "Physically," one ex-prisoner said of his Chinese camp, "it was all right, but mentally it was damn rough." Almost to a man, the returnees reported...