Word: koreanizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond Christmas caroling. When the Annex song content was revived last year, Barnard was the first dorm to receive the silver trophy. It remained on the hall's mantle piece until last month, when the commuters won it at this year's contest. In its place rests a tiny Korean stone cup, an anonymous gift, Inscribed "obviously Barnard Hall should have won the 1948 song contest." "We'll win the trophy back again next time" the hall's residents claim...
Last week South Korean army forces retook the southern cities of Sunchon and Yosu, seized in a Communist uprising the week before (TIME, Nov. 1). TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans accompanied government assault troops. His report...
...full control. The hundred or so cops who surrendered were lined up against the wall of the police compound and riddled. Then the rebels, joined by part of the citizenry, paraded through the city under North Korea's Communist banner, singing "Ten thousand years to the North Korean People's Republic...
...Syngman Rhee, President of the two-month-old South Korean Republic, was in Tokyo visiting Douglas MacArthur at the time. Said MacArthur: "I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California...
With MacArthur's words to encourage them, the South Korean army energetically set about crushing the revolt. It had begun one morning before dawn, when 40 Communist members of a brigade stationed in the far southern port of Yosu shot their officers and bullied their sleepy comrades into attacking the city police station. They took over all of Yosu, then headed north, picking up confused recruits along the way. By the time they reached Sunchon, a city of 75,000, their force had grown to around...