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...transferred to Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. Withdrawal raises the uneasy question of South Korea's future; its U.S.-sponsored government faces a strong Communist regime which the Red army left behind when it withdrew last December from the area north of the 38th parallel. To allay South Korean jitters, the U.S. Army is leaving a large part of its equipment, including arms, ammunitions and transports, to the young South Korean army...
Chinese communists claimed the capture of a string of towns 105 to 125 miles south of the Yangtze River yesterday as part of their southward drive. In quiet Shanghai, meanwhile, the government reported that the Reds had signed a mutual defense pact with the Russian-sponsored North Korean regime and had pledged aid to Burmese Communists...
...Korean Republic disclosed today it is negotiating with the United States to set a date "in the course of several months" for withdrawal of American troops...
...Horace Grant Underwood, of the typewriter family. He went out to the Orient in 1885, married a medical missionary who became royal physician to Korea's Queen Min. In his buttoned-up black coat and white tie, doughty Dr. Underwood strode coolly through cholera epidemics and equally formidable Korean political squabbles. He raised his son, Horace Horton Underwood, to labor in the same vineyard...
...sure. The entire Seoul detective force was assigned to dig into the Red underground for the criminals. The most favored theories: that it was revenge for the recent expulsion of suspected Communists from Chosen Christian College; that the Communists had mistaken Mrs. Underwood for her guest of honor, a Korean woman noted for her pro-United Nations activities. One high U.S. official thought he had the answer: "If the Communists are looking for a way to make Americans distrust and dislike Koreans, they could find no better one than to kill this good American woman...