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...special responsibility which the U.S. has accepted ... in the struggle against Russian Communist imperialism," he said last year of Korea, "does not mean an automatic response 'ready, aye, ready' to everything Washington proposes." Two months ago use of Canadian soldiers to help quell rioting prisoners at Koje brought an indignant Pearson outburst...
Things had been more or less quiet in Korea's prison camps ever since Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner subdued the Communist rioters on infamous Koje Island last spring (TIME, May 26 et seq.). Then came the big dispersal. Off to the mainland went 48,000 anti-Communist Koreans, to be detained in six camps there. The Communist North Koreans were left on Koje and two neighboring islands. All 20,000 Chinese prisoners were shipped to the mountainous island of Cheju. There last week, trouble flared...
...Cheju, some 14,000 Chinese who have rejected Communism are penned up at one end of the island, 5,800 loyal Reds (and constant troublemakers) at the other. Boatner, elevated to major general and command of all U.N. prisoners in Korea for his good work on Koje, had a way of handling troublemakers. But he was posted to the U.S. more than a month...
...Korea, Captain Clifford D. Jolley, 31, of Salt Lake City, shot down his fifth enemy plane to become America's 18th jet ace of the war. In Tokyo, the Army announced that Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner, who restored order to the rebellious prisoner-of-war camp on Koje Islands, had been promoted to the rank of major general. In Washington, the Marine Corps announced that Colonel Katherine A. Towle, 54, director of Women Marines, would retire next May to take over the job of dean of women at the University of California at Berkeley...
...Visiting Koje Island, he found that Brigadier General "Bull" Boatner had done an able job of restoring order to the prisoner-of-war camp. Calling on Syngman Rhee with British Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd, Alexander had what he called "a very friendly chat." Actually, Alexander and Lloyd were plain distressed by Rhee's highhandedness, but, reporting back to the British Foreign Office, Lloyd reluctantly conceded: "Rhee is clearly most astute and, in spite of his age, is head and shoulders above any of his compatriots whom I have...