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...Durkin said, that the leak would make no difference in his attitude...
...were confirmed. Australian-born Wilfred Burchett, correspondent for the French Communist paper, L'Humanité, wandered into Panmunjon to chat with U.N. correspondents. Communist Burchett, whom many U.S. newsmen remembered as a competent reporter for Australian Associated Press during the Pacific war, had previously acted as a news "leak" for the Communists. This time, he carefully let slip the fact that the Chinese were still holding an unspecified number of U.S. airmen who had allegedly been shot down over Chinese territory beyond the Yalu. Since Communist China did not officially take part in the Korean war, explained Burchett suavely...
...proposal was still officially secret, but last week some details began to leak out. The U.N. no longer insists that all North Korean prisoners who refuse to go home must be released as soon as an armistice is signed, but the new plan still guarantees that no prisoner will be forced home against his will...
...occurs in these reservoirs, but not to the extent of 2,000 gallons a month or so, thought the owners of the Hazebrouck distillery in northern France. Yet their vats were guarded by special police, surrounded by high walls, and there seemed no opportunity for theft. Was there a leak? The Hazebrouck distillers drained off their largest vat. Peering into the darkness, workmen spied a small, shining object and uncovered the end of a metal tube. The tube led them under the distillery walls, 100 yds. along a ditch, across a meadow, into a garage on the national highway...
Similarly, last week the Eisenhower Administration went forward with its psychological offensive against the Communist enemy of the Far East, letting enough news of U.S. military potentialities leak out to make its threat a real one. Latest warrior to park his POLICE car ostentatiously was Admiral Arthur W. Radford, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. As soon as Radford landed in Washington (from headquarters in Pearl Harbor) last week, he was summoned to a White House conference with President Eisenhower. Radford came & went publicly, but gave not a hint of the reason for the visit. Nonetheless, the word...