Word: manchuria
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...General Mark Clark's $100,000 reward. Soon to be reunited with his mother, who fled North Korea months ago, and assured of asylum in the U.S., Senior Flight Lieut. Noh Keum Suk told air intelligence officers that the Communists had been busily bringing MIGs from Manchuria into North Korea ever since mid-August. Lieut. Noh said that he himself had seen at least 80 partially crated jets rolling south on flatcars. "We made the armistice only to improve our military position," he reported a North Korean political officer as saying. U.S. airmen, who have been picking...
...tortures of some of his men at the hands of the Japanese and spent 39 painful months in Japanese prison camps, undernourished, beaten and abused by his jailers. At the end of World War II, he was escorted by Russian troops from the prison camp at Sian, Manchuria. When he appeared on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri, at the Japanese surrender, he was a sick skeleton weighing only...
...craftsman's art links the peoples of the world. One display of shoes showed the common ingenuity of the world's cobblers: a wooden Dutch shoe for the wet lowlands, a cool leather sandal for Arabia's hot sands, a warm quilted-cotton boot for Manchuria's bitter winters. Wooden manikins wore beautifully embroidered costumes from the Andean highlands and a fascinating suit of woven palm-fiber armor made for a South Sea island warrior. There were tiny statues, ceremonial masks, hoes and puppets from such widely separated areas as Borneo, Europe and Africa, all done...
...victory denied them, not by the enemy but by the very Government we were fighting to preserve . . . Have the words of MacArthur, Van Fleet, and the thousands upon thousands of Korean veterans been of no avail? Have over 24,000 American men, killed by steel from the sanctuary of Manchuria, died in vain...
...night last week a U.S. jet plane zipped along the Yalu River, spewing leaflets into a southeast breeze that would blow them into Manchuria. The leaflets bore a fat offer from the U.N. command: to any pilot who delivered a MIG jet fighter to South Korea, the U.S. promised political asylum and a reward of $50.000. To start the ball rolling, the first man out would get an extra $50,000 besides...