KOREA: The Reactionaries

After all the unhappy stories of informers and "progressives" among American prisoners in Communist hands, the hardy and happy released prisoners who jumped out of the trucks at Inchon last week had a different tale to tell—candid, bitter, and heartening. They were inmates of tough Camp Three at Changsong on the Yalu. They were the anti-Communist "reactionaries" who resisted indoctrination.

Most of them were young, tough, freewheeling Americans of 20 and 21, and they had the courage to have their say and the strength to take their punishment. Said Corporal "Buster Brown" White, of Alabama City, Ala.: "If they accused...

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