KOREA: Towards Jan. 22

It was below freezing at Panmunjom. The anti-Communist P.W.s buttoned their tents against the chill Siberian winds, and huddled around their potbellied stoves. There were no demonstrations against the Communist explainers; the P.W.s felt too confident to bother. The Communists dared only once last week to screen a North Korean compound, and they took another humiliating defeat: explanations 227: conversions 6. One P.W. argued two hours with his explainer about the Soviet loan to North Korea, then remarked: "You just don't seem to have any grasp of economics." Another P.W. asked the Indian chairman, in perfect English: "Doesn't this...

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