Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather was broiling hot. It was just two years ago, in similar weather, that the first brigade of Marines arrived at Pusan to help hold the allied beachhead. Last spring the division, now commanded by Major General John T. Selden, was due to go into reserve. But Selden, a tall, sharp-eyed Virginian who enlisted as a Marine private in 1915, asked General Van Fleet to keep the division fighting. Van Fleet agreed, and assigned the Marines to the Panmunjom sector, astride the invasion route from Pyongyang to Seoul...
...mother of a six-year-old myself-and as I read your July 21 story of the homeless children in Pusan, I became conscious of the fact that I must bear my part of the blame for all the Choi Jung Mooks of the world...
Those 10,000 "toddlers" and children are sitting in those filthy Pusan streets . . . Tell us, your army of readers, what to do-where to send funds-to help. We ... are directly responsible for the horror of abandoned and dying children in that ruined country...
...true secrecy of the voting and the honesty of the count-attested to by U.N. observers-were encouraging, and to Westerners who still doubted it, the balloting demonstrated Syngman Rhee's strong hold on the South Korean masses. He was strongest in rural areas. In Pusan, where South Koreans could see how Rhee "tyrannized" the National Assembly, the old hero-while beating his nearest opponent by 24,000-got only 45% of the vote...
...most wretched of the poor in wretched Pusan know that things could be worse. The 600,000 refugees in the city are people who accepted every hardship to flee the North Korean Communists. On Pusan's grimy walls there are no signs denouncing Wall Street imperialism or urging the Yanks to go home...