Word: koreanizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a land of silent people. No one could say how few, if any, of the nation of 23,000,000 knew that China, the U.S. and Britain, at Cairo last November, had promised to restore their freedom "in due course." In Chungking, greying Kim Koo, head of a Korean provisional government, declared that Koreans want "full and immediate independence" after the war. But strategic Korea, after long years of bondage, seems more likely to become the ward of an international condominium until she has learned the ways of self government again...
...Underwoods, all born in Korea, chose an appropriate day for their triple ordination: the 25th anniversary of the day when 33 Korean patriots (15 of them Christians) drew up the Korean declaration of independence and brought down upon themselves the wrath of the Japanese...
Last week Grandfather Underwood's son recalled his Korean childhood. Queen Min used to dandle him on her royal knee. When the palace burned down the royal family moved next door to the Underwoods. When King Ik Song feared assassination, he sent for Grandfather Underwood and two other missionaries. They sat up all night guarding His Majesty with loaded revolvers...
Frank Laubach has set up his charts for no less than 79 tongues, has recently been working on his 80th - Korean. Orthodox teachers have orthodox reservations about Laubach's teaching methods, but none whatever about the great success of his life work. Laubach himself gives full credit to God for sending him on a job at which he has "more fun than anybody else in the world." But he warns that reading, itself, is not enough-there must be the right kind of reading. "Democracy, Protestantism, and literacy are triplets...
...Shanghai's Hongkew Park, a Korean patriot threw a bomb at a review stand filled with Japanese officials. Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) lost a leg; Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, later Ambassador to Washington, lost...