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Twelve Who Died. Novelist Kim, 31, lays his scene in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. The advancing United Nations forces have just occupied the city. The narrator is a South Korean political intelligence officer, who is entrusted with the job of investigating the deaths of twelve Christian ministers executed by the retreating Communists. Before they can be used for propaganda purposes as a symbol of spiritual triumph, however, the captain must discover why 14 ministers were arrested and only twelve died...
...withering breath of despair!" he cries. "Blessed be the names of your martyrs! For they forgave me." Chill Wind. The truth is, of course, quite different. Mr. Shin, refusing to issue a public statement supporting the Communists, had acted the role of a hero, as a captured North Korean officer privately reveals. He had been spared on a whim of the officers: "He was the only one who had enough guts to spit in my face. I admire anyone who can spit in my face. That's why I didn't shoot him." Mr. Shin's confession...
Aide-de-Camp. Novelist Kim's father was a North Korean landowner who was jailed by the Communists in 1945 for his defiant political activity. Kim fled to South Korea, was a student at Seoul University when the North Koreans invaded. He served during the war as aide-de-camp to General Arthur G. Trudeau; at war's end Trudeau helped him get to the U.S. and to Middlebury College. There Kim decided he wanted to be a novelist...
College, got his master's degree from the University of Chicago at 21. He has been a welfare worker in St. Louis, an unpaid editor of Manhattan's social-conscious Catholic Worker, a conscientious objector during the Korean war, a researcher for the Fund for the Republic. Now a freelance writer, he lives in a $65-a-month Greenwich Village tenement with his wife Stephanie...
Hint of Violence. Forrestal soon reached an impasse. He thought Truman's military budget too skimpy to stop Communist aggression (the Korean war proved him right). He did his best to slice up the budget among the services, but the service secretaries sabotaged his efforts by going over his head to Congress and the press. Better-read than any other Cabinet member and able to quote from Bagehot, Marx and Kant, Forrestal irritated Truman by constantly giving him advice and recommending appointments. "He was a Cabinet Francis Bacon who took the whole political world for his province," writes Rogow...