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...escaped most Koreans, after a year of marching into the era of peace and independence, that their feet are indeed hurting. For half a century they suffered under the hated Japanese. With "liberation" came a dream of freedom. But then their country was divided by two governments, the Russian in the north and the U.S. in the south; they did not have enough rice; angry mobs fomented violence. In four riotous days last week 59 Korean policemen were killed at Taegu in the U.S. zone; 60 were wounded and another 100 reported "missing." Unsigned handbills in Seoul read: "Down with...
...occupy or govern Korea, the U.S. is still trying to live down initial errors: the bad feeling created by retaining Japanese police, however briefly, as a temporary control force (the Soviets booted them quickly and efficiently in the north) ; a willingness to string along with doddering Korean oldsters, instead of young, competent and popular leaders; the crowning fiasco of abandoning rice rationing, which soon resulted in a critical shortage, a black market and inflation. That the Russians were making mistakes, too, in the northern sector was evidenced by the thousands of Koreans attempting to flee to the south...
Communists worked overtime to raise chaos last week in Korea's southern zone. Purpose: to prevent U.S. military authorities from carrying out plans for the popular election of a Korean legislative body and the organization of a national administration...
...Communist Koreans found it hard to understand U.S. tolerance of Communist troublemaking and Russian interference in the U.S. zone through propaganda and financial aid from the Soviet zone. U.S. prestige was seriously damaged. Cost to U.S. taxpayers of the first year of Korean occupation...
...member of the mission could tell how the people of Korea felt about their Russian overlords, but a G.I. who had gone along with Pauley got an inkling. Said he: "I took a short walk one night. Suddenly a Korean jumped out of the shadows and kissed my hand. I felt like a damned fool...