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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Three Million Men. In Korea, said he, the U.S. and the United Nations had met the "brutal attack" of "Communist imperialism," had curbed it and were now confident "that it will be crushed." The U.S. wants nothing from Korea-or any part of Asia-except a chance for the people to be "free, independent and united." "The battle in Korea," he went on, "is the front line in the struggle between freedom and tyranny...
...mainland. Nearly every Formosan sports one or two gold teeth, the badge of Japanese health-consciousness. About 10% of Formosans are industrial or communications workers. Even the 71% of Formosans who are agricultural workers have electric lights in their huts, a luxury possessed by no other Asian peasants except the Japanese...
...George Morrison, sniffing the paddies: "It even smells the same." Attached to an American unit, the Tommies pronounced American rations "very good," but complained of the coffee. "Can't drink it," said one Londoner. "When is tea coming up?" The British will use their own weapons and ammunition except for the U.S. 3.5-inch bazooka. At week's end the Ladies from Hell were at the fighting front...
...introduced two more, one denouncing "the unprovoked, barbaric attacks" of U.S. planes on China, and the other, "monarcho-fascist terrorism in Greece." With savage suavity, Jebb labeled these two items for what they were, Jebb called Malik's charge of U.S. aggression a document "beneath contempt, except for its only obvious use, namely, its distribution as a propaganda leaflet." Of Malik's resolution on Greece, Jebb said: "For the representative of a country which maintains millions of its own compatriots in slave labor camps ... to denounce other governments for alleged misdemeanors as regards political prisoners is just about...
...Tufts College Dental School. Then schoolchildren in Walpole, Mass, were used as human guinea pigs. In the first year, 216 children at the Stone School, who used powder containing penicillin, got 55% fewer cavities than 162 children at the Plimpton School, who used a powder identical in ingredients except for the penicillin. In the second year, the Stone School showed 54% fewer cavities than Plimpton, which seemed to prove that mouth bacteria did not become resistant to penicillin...