Word: koreans
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...have contributed under the Colombo Plan about $30 million to economic development projects in South and Southeast Asia. New Zealand also has a record of substantial support for the assistance programs of the United Nations, including UNRRA, UNICEF, Palestinian and other refugees, the United Nations Technical Assistance Program, Korean Relief and Rehabilitation, as well as the many aid activities of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. Recently, we pledged support for technical assistance for Africa...
With the usual dazzle of unconfirmable statistics, the North Koreans proudly contrast their achievements with South Korea. The North has less than half the South's population (10 million v. 24 million), but the Communists fell heir to 70% of undivided Korea's heavy industry, 90% of the electric power. 70% of the coal. Much of this capacity was destroyed during the Korean war, but the Reds say that by 1956 it was already back to prewar levels, and that since then output has doubled and even trebled. They claim that last year the North produced ten times as much...
Explaining the fluctuation, Redmayne said that "a lot depends on the international problems facing the U.S." He pointed out that during the Korean War interest in the three services was very high. He also mentioned the rising level of myopic intellectuals in the University. More students, he lamented, are coming in with glasess and cannot pass the physical...
...could not breathe"; the Security Council was "a spittoon, even worse than a spittoon-a cuspidor"; Nationalist China was "a corpse we have to cast right out of here, straight to hell." From places and things he descended to personalities: Syngman Rhee was "a throttler and choker of the Korean people," Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong "a jerk and a lackey," Dag Hammarskjold "a fool" and President Dwight Eisenhower "a liar." As for the United Nations itself, "the U.N. is the U.S., it's all one; after all, it's a branch of the State Department...
World War II and the Korean conflict had taken thousands of Negroes away from their homes and into integrated armed services. Some were exposed to the experience of fairly dignified treatment in Northern cities and to a view of the life of the Northern Negro, at least a few steps better than that of the Southerner. Service in England, France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, gave new insights into the possibilities of interracial harmony and understanding. It may well be that large numbers of Negroes had never really accepted themselves as the legal, intellectual, and moral equals...