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Last week, the blood-boiling sympathy bloomed even brighter. Along the border between the U.S. and the Soviet zones, Russian soldiers were digging trenches. The Communists called a convention for April 14, to form a "Korean People's Republic," i.e., an all-Korean Communist regime. Anybody was welcome who for one reason or another did not like the Americans or the free elections they proposed to conduct. U.S. occupation authorities did not restrain any Korean politicians who wanted to accept the invitation. Said one U.S. spokesman: "It might be a good thing for them to go north and find...
Chief among the politicians invited was Kim Koo, Rightist chairman of the Korean Independence Party. Few party-liners were prepared for this proposed alliance. On the day the Communists issued their invitation, Manhattan's Daily Worker referred to Kim as "the notorious old terrorist Kim Koo [who is without] any following among the people...
Yoshiko Kawashima said she was born a Manchu princess; she grew up to become a Japanese spy. In her career as the "Mata Hari of China," she posed variously as a Chinese soldier, a taxi driver, a Korean prostitute (Chinese officers always asked for Koreans, she explained), a schoolteacher...
Citing the case of a "high-ranking member of the State Department who did not know where Manchuria was," Raisz' letter claimed that "the Palestine and the Korean problem would never have occured if they had been handled by persons with an adequate knowledge of geography...
...second big speech in two weeks for Kim. The week before, he had called Korean Communists to action: "Among our party members there must be no leisurely and luxurious life. We must be so active that we feel dead if we have no work to do." In U.S.-occupied South Korea, Kim's followers responded promptly. A brass band turned up playing the Internationale in the South Korean dock town of Pusan. Rail and telegraph lines were cut. One twelve-car train was wrecked, and 50 locomotives were put out of action by saboteurs. In scattered clashes with South...