Word: pauley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With sleepy-eyed cordiality Ed Pauley greeted the six U.S. correspondents who clambered aboard his train at Kaesong, a U.S.-occupied town just south of Korea's 38th parallel. The reporters poised pencils for a walloping exposé of conditions in the Soviet never-never land. But President Truman's special reparations representative just smiled his warmest smile, and, like a well-behaved guest, paid the kindest compliments to the Russians who had been his hosts for five days...
...Then Pauley retired to a Seoul hospital to be treated for dysentery. Army leaders in Korea read Pauley's report, let out an outraged howl. For nine months they had been gleaning information about North Korean factory removal from stories told by refugees. Much of their data dovetailed and had been checked and rechecked. How, they asked, could Pauley's report, after five days of guided wandering, be accepted in the light of their carefully prepared evidence? They remembered that, while Pauley was still in the Russian zone, his mission headquarters in Seoul had complained he "was operating...
Members of the Pauley mission were not optimistic about Soviet political (as distinguished from industrial) policy in Korea. Said one: "It looks as though the Russians are there to stay." In Pyongyang, the Soviet capital, street corners, schools and shops were literally plastered with banners proclaiming the virtues of the Soviet system, the Red Army, and "General" Kim II Sung, the Soviet puppet leader. At night Pyongyang streets rang with rifle shots...
...member of the mission could tell how the people of Korea felt about their Russian overlords, but a G.I. who had gone along with Pauley got an inkling. Said he: "I took a short walk one night. Suddenly a Korean jumped out of the shadows and kissed my hand. I felt like a damned fool...
Onetime haberdasher Truman, the story related, will take over operation of the store in 1948 ("It will be nice to get back to the old grind"). Henry Wallace will run the union suit department, Clinton Anderson the company cafeteria, Ed Pauley will take charge of the furnace, "an oil burner." Edward Stettinius will be a model in the men's ready-to-wear suit department, will be used in the store window on dull days. "It would be an ideal job for Ed," the President claimed. "He wouldn't have to open his mouth." Storytelling George Allen...