Word: north
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behest and has no love for them either, has all along insisted that Japan must pay him compensation for taking the Koreans in. One big reason: he already has more manpower than he can find jobs for. In contrast, Kim II Sung's devastated and manpower hungry Communist North Korea is eager to take in all the Koreans it can find...
...make sure that no one was going against his will, Japanese Red Cross officials reminded all repatriates they were "free to choose to live in Japan, in South Korea or in North Korea." But in private interviews, only one 16-year-old girl backed out. After years of feeling unwanted in a-strange land, even those not lulled by Sung's song agreed with Bok Young Kyun, father of four, who said: "The children have no future in Japan and neither have...
...Japanese Red Cross predicted that some 50,000 of Japan's 600,000 Koreans would eventually depart for Communist territory. Crowed the North Korean newspaper Minju Chosun, "A great victory for the Socialist states...
...Broadway audience he was only a nice old Canadian eccentric who likes people, but Toronto's Bay Street financiers know him as the 62-year-old onetime president of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., a latex prince descended from some of the red, white and bluest blood in North America; e.g., Priscilla Mullins' John Alden, Connecticut's Revolutionary Governor Jonathan Trumbull. At home in Toronto, his closest companions are his 13-year-old beagle Tobey and his solicitors, Ricketts, Farley & Lowndes...
...this atmosphere, an Australian girl (Gardner) and a U.S. submarine captain (Peck) fall in love. But Greg cannot let himself go with Ava because, even though he knows his wife and kiddies are dead along with everybody else in North America, "I can't accept it." Ava runs off to find consolation with a scientist fellow (Fred Astaire). "I have nobody," she sobs. "I'm afraid...