International: Big Brother's Help

On their side of the Asian perimeter, the Communists were busily promising to restore and refortify battered North Korea—plainly showing that they have no intention of yielding it to a unified all-Korean government at the peace table. Last September Russia granted $250 million towards North Korea's "recovery.?' Last week Red China agreed to send $317 million in "coal, cloth, cotton, grain, building materials, communications equipment, metal products, machinery, agricultural tools, fishing boats, paper and other daily necessities of the people." Red China also agreed to-cancel North Korea's war debts incurred up to...

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