Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo officialdom, Japan's 800,000 "resident Koreans" have long been unwelcome guests who contribute more than their share to Japanese crime and unemployment statistics. But to Soren, the Red-lining General Federation of Korean Residents in Japan, the Koreans are unwilling exiles. Loudly insisting that at least 120,000 of the Koreans in Japan yearn to go to Communist North Korea, Soren has repeatedly demanded mass repatriation as "a basic human right." Last February, after the North Korean government grandly chimed in with an offer to take in all of Japan's Korean residents at once...
...from South Korea's Syngman Rhee, who argued that the repatriates should go to South Korea-but insisted that the Japanese government must first pay "compensation" for the Koreans' years of "forced labor" in Japan. Unmoved, the Japanese pushed ahead, and, with the cooperation of the International Red Cross, set up a repatriation scheme that included a big proviso. Japan's condition: before boarding ship, each would-be repatriate would be asked privately by Japanese and Red Cross officials, "Do you wish to change your mind?" Last week, at 3,655 ward offices throughout Japan, clerks stood...
...Peking, Red China's commissars scurried about putting the final touches on preparations for this week's celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover in China. On the broad avenues of the capital, thousands of workers, wearing white kerchiefs on their heads, marched and countermarched in rehearsal for the big parade. All along the parade route, every bit of bare wall was decorated with portraits of Red China's leaders-Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi and Chou Enlai, in that order-and posters proclaiming that life is getting better and better in the people...
Along with all this went a persistent rumor that Red China was determined to fire a rocket that was not a toy-a Russian-supplied missile that might put a Chinese satellite in orbit around the earth. If the rocket failed, there was speculation that Red China might explode an Abomb, also borrowed from the Russians. One way or another, Red China this week plans to overawe its Asian neighbors and to serve notice on the West that it is a nation with the ambitions, if not the substance, of a first-rank power...
Thrilled but undazzled, Columnist Landers-who is the wife of Ballpoint Pen Executive Jules Lederer-took a Berlitz cram course in Russian, then flew off to see what makes Reds red-eyed. After three weeks she came back with a stack of well-filled notebooks, turned out a dozen columns on her impressions of Russia ("Everybody needed a bath and a haircut"; "Russians put a premium on brains"; "a warm, affectionate people"). Through all her copy ran familiar Landers material: "Ivan is worried about Irena's supervisor at the furniture factory. He has heard rumors-and she has been...