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...reached India, riots broke out and effigies of Salazar were hanged and burned. At this point, soul force was all but forgotten. Communists were in the forefront of the agitating, eager to cock a snoot at NATO partner Portugal. In Bombay, police fired on the rioters, wounding 85. The mob retaliated with stone-throwing, injuring 100, surged into the British High Commission building, smashed windows, manhandled the staff and demanded lowering of the Union Jack. Pakistan's office was also attacked, while 10,000 smashed up the Portuguese consulate and hoisted the Indian flag over...
Commies, Go Home. In Pusan, a mob of Koreans, urged on by Rhee's national policemen, rushed the NNSC compound, shouting. "Poles and Czechs, go home!" They pushed down the fence and stoned the U.S. guards; in one of their trucks, guards found six machine guns. The worst fighting broke out at Wolmi Island, the wooded, humpbacked pile where the U.S. marines staged their amphibious assault on Inchon in 1950. Screaming Koreans tried to rush the causeway that joins the island to the mainland, and others stormed ashore from junks. One Korean got shot and two were wounded while...
...other side of the barricade, a mob formed after sundown in the dusty street. A loudspeaker blared again and again: 'Let us expel the Communist Supervisory Commission and regain the price of our lost blood...
...Suddenly the mob advanced, 1,500 strong. Stones started flying, and we in the trucks were beginning to get hit. Several Koreans carrying torches soaked in kerosene threw the blazing brands into the U.S. barricade. Outside the loudspeaker blared incredibly: 'We like to assure the U.N. troops we will not harm the U.N. troops.' Rocks were banging in once more. Somebody cracked that he was glad they weren't trying to hurt...
...Which was once, during Colombia's civil war, stoned and burned out by a rioting mob of Conservative partisans (TIME, Sept...