THE ALLIES: Waifs of War

Said a grimy G.I.: "I keep thinking of my three kids at home and hoping that somebody would take care of them, if what is happening here should happen in America."

At Inchon, 964 Korean orphans and other waifs of war, aged six months to eleven years, were waiting to be taken to an island off the South Korean coast. Some of the older ones were too weak from starvation to walk, or too sick (e.g., with scabies, whooping cough, tuberculosis). They were to have been settled in a children's refuge at Seoul, but U.N. reverses caused that plan to be...

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