Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compound dominated by Communists, and brought out 300 anti-Communists." A middle-aged P.W. thanked a young lieutenant, then broke down. "One thousand days behind the wire," he sobbed, "one thousand days . . ." A band rataplanned a Sousa march, and the P.W.s, loaded into trucks, were driven off towards Seoul. Korean farmers lined the road to cheer them. The Chinese P.W.s waved their flags and chanted, "Resist Russia-Down with the Reds." Then they sang songs of what they would do to the women when they got to the Nationalist island of Taiwan (Formosa), and cried to themselves that they were...
...their way from Seoul to Manila for the inauguration of the Philippines' President-elect Ramon Magsaysay (see FOREIGN NEWS), Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur W. Radford and his wife Marian, along with Assistant Secretary of State (for Far Eastern Affairs) Walter S. Robertson, stopped off for two days in Formosa. There, in the Taipei home of Nationalist China's President Chiang Kaishek, the visitors struck a family-album sort of pose for photographers with the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang...
...instead. For her performance, she switched to an ermine cape, then suddenly, while some 1,000 troops shouted approval, she undraped herself to reveal the brief, two-piece fur suit. Next day, orders came by way of Tokyo for Terry to leave Korea on the first plane out of Seoul. Later Terry got permission to stay, provided she stuck to the script and skipped the goose pimples. Sighed the U.S.O. unit manager: "Everything is all right now, since she is not doing a strip...
...Indian chairman quickly cut him off. The others spoke little, and without passion. Only when the ROK explainers showed photographs or played tape recordings from home did the Red P.W.s show emotion. One moon-faced girl in pigtails stared at a photograph of her home street in Seoul, then cried: "I don't want to see it again." A thin-faced P.W. jumped up when the explainers played a message from his sister. "Talk all you want," he shouted, "but don't play that record." Though the recordings were ineffective in getting back the South Koreans, their...
...recent weeks Syngman Rhee has sat in his mansion at Seoul, listening impatiently to a steady stream of U.S. diplomats, Congressmen and other official visitors telling him he must not disturb the peace, and spelling out the U.S. policy decision not to help him if he tries to go it alone. The news was. hard for Rhee to hear, harder still to accept...