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...were raging in North Korea, and presumably further crippling the Red fighting forces. Moreover, the Eighth Army, which Matt Ridgway had turned into a first-class fighting machine, had proved by its "meat-grinder" counteroffensives that it could grind some 90 miles farther north to the line where the peninsula widens out, swallowing up Pyongyang (the North Koreans' capital, which they had lost once before) and some 15,000 more square miles of Red territory...
TIME'S correspondents in Korea are ready for anything. For more than two years now, they have been shuttling in, out, over and through that embattled peninsula to keep you posted on the war and the events that led up to it. Members of the Tokyo bureau, who have been covering the war, have also been sending stories on Japan's regained sovereignty, the prisoner-of-war camp incidents, the May Day riots, and Korean politics. Says Bureau Chief Dwight Martin: "The biggest problem is trying to figure out from one day to the next which...
...unchanging Communist objective to obtain control of the entire Korean peninsula"-whether "this year, or five or ten years hence." The loss of Korea would "very definitely" threaten the security of Japan and "vitally menace the military security of the American people...
...Malay Peninsula, which is about the size of Florida, Malays and Chinese are now about equal in numbers (2,500,000 each). But only in Singapore, which is a British Crown Colony, do native-born Chinese have full British citizenship. In the peninsula's eleven other political units (nine of them still ruled by local nabobs under British "protection"), Chinese citizenship is strictly limited. Hoping to lessen this discrimination, the British in 1946 set out to organize the country into a Malayan Union. But the old Malay hierarchies, fearing that the Chinese might outvote them, threatened to revolt...
...which his last eight wives called home, was too large for temporary bachelor living. He bought a full-page ad in the local paper to announce,"The House of Brides for Sale," and made plans to move into a cozier $125,000 ranch-type house on a nearby peninsula...