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...masks his activities as an American undercover agent, or spy, with a job as crack reporter for Amalgamated Press, (this touch was rather a bold answer to Red charges last summer about William Oatis). As this episode opens, he is off to get a statement from General Wang Tai, head of the Nationalist, forces on Formosa ("All names and places are fictitious...
Meanwhile, General Hung Ho of the Nationalist headquarters talks nasally to a subordinate. "Comrade," he says, "if Bob Barkeley sends out Wang Tai's message to the American people, their legislature would have to take action. We would be ruined." The two conspirators decide to kidnap Wang. "In the confusion following his disappearance, we would be able to do . . . many things...
After the meeting that night, General Wang Tai, holding one nostril shut as he speaks, informs Hung Ho that he has been "observing your reactions to certain propositions...
...tireless labors of U.S. Colonel Charles R. Munske, 54, a bluff, benevolent reservist from Brooklyn. As chief of the U.N. Civil Assistance Command for Seoul and the province of Kyonggi, Colonel Munske is nominally only an adviser to Seoul's U.S.-educated Mayor Kim Tai Sun. Actually, he works a minimum of twelve hours a day, seven days a week, coping with the city's problems. Seoul's rebuilding came to a dead stop recently when contractors ran out of nails. Munske begged and borrowed some wire, started a nail factory...
...Seoul, Mayor Kim Tai Sun presented Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet with a scroll, an eight-inch silver key, a bouquet of roses and pronounced him honorary mayor of the city on its 558th anniversary as capital of Korea. A few days later, Mayor Sun was out of office. The R.O.K. government inspection committee dismissed him for embezzling several hundred million won of government funds...