Defectors: By Mutual Consent

Communist China and the American defectors it wooed after the Korean War seem to have sadly disappointed each other. Of the 21 defectors, a dozen came back to the U.S., five took up residence in other parts of the world, and one died in China. Last week Clarence S. ("Skippy") Adams, 37, a slender Negro from Memphis who was captured in North Korea in late 1950, became the 18th turncoat to forsake the Communists. That leaves only two still in Red China, and Adams believes that one of them is about to leave....

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