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...whitewings of Seoul (old women with brushwood brooms) swept the capital's main streets early one morning last week. Later, the tong-yang (block leaders) hustled out 100,000 residents to shout mansei and wave proper flags in welcome for UNCURK, the United Nations Commission on Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea...
Rest for the Weary. On the Nak-tong front, the Communists' Changnyong bridgehead was gone, liquidated in fierce fighting by the Marines and the 24th Division. To the north, at Hyonpung, the enemy still had a small force of about 2,000 men on the east bank of the river, but mopping them up would be no problem. That, however, would not be the 24th's job. The 24th was being relieved by the fresh 2nd Infantry Division, which had just arrived in Korea...
...Minh and his government are prisoners of the sinister Tong Bo, the Communist Party Politburo, and in particular of five of its members, rising young extremists who really run the show. The most important is Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietminh's frail, passionate, 38-year-old Minister of National Defense. Vo Nguyen Giap, a Communist since his teens, was first arrested when he was 18. His wife died in a French jail four years ago. More than anyone else, he created the Vietminh army. A ruthless and bloodthirsty man, he has coldly directed the liquidation of anti-Communists...
...miles respectively southwest of Inchon, Seoul's port. Presumably the purpose was to establish bases for U.S. air attacks on the enemy's coastwise shipping, and for a possible future seaborne attack on the mainland. On the southern coast, the South Koreans captured the town of Tong-yong, 25 miles southwest of Masan, across a narrow strait from Koje Island...
Among other things, the interview was not exclusive : Cecil Dickson of the Gan nett newspapers was along; so was Vice Minister of Information Hollington Tong, who pointed out, with Chinese courtesy, that Taylor must have suffered from a "misunderstanding." U.S. Ambassador Pat Hurley was not so gentle. Said...