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Most of Korea's 40,000 Communist guerrillas were actually bypassed units of the regular North Korean army and could only be called "guerrillas" because they were fighting behind the front in Allied-held territory. At the time of the junction of the Inchon and Pusan beachheads, Tokyo spokesmen had gloatingly reported them trapped. Last week the guerrillas were acting more like rats in a corncrib than like rats in a trap. They had attacked trains, convoys, supply dumps, command posts, burned or terrorized towns, driven thousands of Koreans from their homes. They seemed to be centrally directed...
...department spokesmen said they expected no immediate loss. "No one seriously believes it will affect any department," said Erwin B. Newman, chairman of the Department of Psychology. "We plan to take each case as it comes. With freshmen it may mean individual exams...
...work for the election of anti-McCarran Bill Congressmen has taken most of its time previously, the Liberal Union is planning to concentrate right at home these last days. A new pamphlet, containing a full history of gerrymandering in this state complete with maps, is now being published, spokesmen announced last night...
...German rearmament had split Pleven's ministers. The Socialists were dragging their feet over the issue. One of their spokesmen, Defense Minister Jules Moch, was opposed to the U.S. plan for quick recruitment of a Germany army. "I will be the minister of French rearmament, not of German rearmament," he said stubbornly. A hectoring Communist communiqué from Prague (see INTERNATIONAL), demanding a halt to German rearmament, sent some Socialists into a flutter; they saw "another Korea on our doorstep...
...Catholic Church in Action), founder and first editor (1924-38) of the Commonweal; in Hartford, Conn. Onetime free-thinking crony of Socialist Upton Sinclair (they wrote a book together, Good Health and How We Won It), Williams returned to the church in 1915, became one of its ablest lay spokesmen...