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...just about everything; by week's end they were so stuffed with hot information that some of their own questions had to be censored. "We are entering doors that have been barred, we are unlocking secrets that have been protected in steel safes," said Chairman Russell. "I have lain awake at night. Even the public record has carried some material which strikes me as dangerous." The censor's blue pencil had struck from the public transcript about 2,800 of MacArthur's words, some 6,600 of Marshall...
...Palizzi's sailors told what they knew. The crate had been nailed up in Sofia 40 days earlier. It had been taken by train to Burgas, where it had lain on the dock for many days. Said one sailor "The man inside was lucky, for usually such crates are opened by the Burgas customs." The crate had been stowed away in the hold of the Palizzi. There it had remained as the little ship steamed through the Bosporus to Istanbul, Smyrna and Genoa where arrangements had been made to fumigate the hold. Said a sailor later...
...heavy fighting around the Chang-Jin reservoir in northeast Korea, Bob had been slightly wounded by gunfire and had lain in a gutter for three days,' covered only by a raincoat. "There was a medic there,'' he said, "but every time I started to call him, I heard someone else call, and I figured they were worse off than me." When Chinese overran the area, Smith played dead, even when some of them stripped him of parts of his clothing. Finally he made his way to a nearby house, where he found other wounded G.I.s...
Paris Said O.K. Harddriving, 50-year-old Maurice Thorez was a very sick man. In the month since he was struck down by a cerebral hemorrhage he had lain bedridden and partially paralyzed in his party-owned villa near Paris. He had frequent spells during which he blacked out. Five French specialists had agreed that Thorez seemed incurable and would probably never regain full possession of his faculties...
Recapturing Taejon, the 24th Division found the bodies of 40 American soldiers thrown into long trenches in the Taejon prison yard. There was one survivor, Sergeant Carey H. Weiner of Hickman Mills, Mo. Wounded only in the hand, he had feigned death, lain in the trench for two days. Weiner said that before pulling out of Taejon the Communists tied the prisoners together, pushed them into the trenches and shot them as they crouched against the sides. The Communists then shoveled dirt on the bodies. As the Taejon area was searched, the bodies of 5,000 or 6,000 Koreans...