Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exiled Hungarian Journalist Tibor Meray. 33. is a plodding novelist but a masterly expositor of black-is-white party dialectics and the mechanics of self brainwashing. As a Communist reporter in Korea, he cried up the monstrous germ warfare charges against the U.S.. later took part in the Hungarian Revolution and fled to Paris, where he now lives...
...eleven years as President of the Republic of Korea, grizzled old (83) Syngman Rhee has fought the North Koreans, the Chinese and the Russians. But as a pioneer in his country's struggle for independence, he has fought against the Japanese all his life. At the height of the Korean war, Rhee said that if Tokyo sent troops, "we would turn around and fight the Japanese before the Communists." Last week the old warrior was challenged to a showdown by the country he still reckons as among the first of Korea's enemies...
Recently the pro-Communist League of Korean Residents in Japan announced that 117,000 of Japan's Koreans had signed a petition saying they wanted to go to Communist North Korea. Though Japanese police believe that only 43,000 actually signed their names (and most of these signatures were bought by the league at $15 apiece from Koreans who needed the cash), Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama seized upon the idea...
...Seoul's quarrels with Tokyo, so that the nations could set up diplomatic relations. Rhee was adamant. He refused to modify his seven-year-old ban on Japanese fishing boats within 60 miles of the Korean coast. He refused to take Japan's Koreans back into South Korea. Getting nowhere with Rhee, both Fujiyama and Premier Nobusuke Kishi reckoned that any move to get rid of Japan's "Korean residents'" would be popular with Japanese voters...
...Spirit of Democracy." Blandly, Foreign Minister Fujiyama last month announced that "on humanitarian grounds, all Koreans in Japan wishing to go to North Korea will be allowed to do so.'' The Red Cross would be invited to find out how many really wanted to go to North Korea, and to take charge of transporting them. "All we are doing." said Tokyo, "is acting in accordance with the true spirit of democracy...