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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1953
DREAMING OF A RED CHRISTMAS ?
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Dear Mother
“During life I have witnessed peace and
war in the United States. I love peace. I love
mankind. I love them enough to fight for
them. That is what I am doing right now—
that is why 1 am not going home.’’
So wrote Pfc. Richard Tenneson to his
mother in explanation of his decision to stay
with the Communists in Korea. An Ameri
can lad, only 17 when he joined the Army,
tells his grieving mother that he has not
been forced, duped, or brainwashed into re
fusing repatriation, and that if she could
talk with him she would find him just as he
left her “except that now I have a goal and
a reason for life.’’
The letter explains nothing. The goal is
left undefined; the reasons are vague and
confused. The 20-year-old youth who has
“witnessed peace and war in the United
States” clearly has little concept of what he
is renouncing. Certainly he is less to blame
than men and women, equipped in some cases
with wide experience and brilliant learning,
who have renounced the democratic heritage
of their youth in order to become the tools
of a ruthless totalitarian conspiracy.
But the letter is a vivid reminder that the
struggle with communism is primarily men
tal, not military. It illustrates the fact that
while Red dictatorship may maintain itself
in power by a strategy of terror, it prepares
the ground for its reign of force by appealing
to ideals, to the craving for peace and secur
ity and fellowship—while the United States
is portrayed as a police state dominated by
the “Gestapo FBI” where it is impossible
(says the young letter writer) to “live as I
wish.”
It is a tribute to American democracy
that only a comparative handful of United
States citizens has “chosen communism.”
But in large areas bf the world there is little
to keep ignorant millions from turning to
those false promises unless the more ad
vanced democracies can demonstrate beyond
doubt that, in Pfc. Tenneson’s words, they
“love peace” and “love mankind.”
— (Christian Science Monitor)
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CHICAGO—-OP)—Rodney Brodie
the 27-month-old surviving Siam
ese twin who has spent all his life
in hospitals, went home for a sur
prise Christmas visit Sunday.
His parents made their regular
twice-monthly 450-mile auto trip to
visit Rodney in a Chicago hospital
Sunday and asked attending phy
sicians if they could take him to
their downstate home until after
New Year’s.
The doctors who have cared for
Rodney since he entered the Univer
sity of Illinois Research Hospital
held a hurried conference. They
decided Rodney was well enough
to make the trip.
The father was jubilant.
“We have looked forward to this
for a long, long time,” he said.
Mrs. Brodie was equally happy.
“We have no special plans at
all,” she said. “We hope to spend
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a nice, quiet holiday with the en
tire family present for the first
time. Our Christmas will be sim
ilar to that observed in most
homes. It will give all of us a
chance to become better acquainted
with Rodney.”
Waiting to greet their brother at
the family’s home at Ferris, Ill.,
near Caruthers in Hancock Coun
ty, were Rodney’s four brothers
and sisters.
Rodney, physicians said, has
made good progress since he was
separated from his head-joined
brother Roger, Dec. 17, 1952. Rog
er died 34 days after the lengthy
and delicate surgery.
No date has been set for Rod
ney’s return to the hospital, where
he has been treated since October,
1951. The hospital said it would
be at the convenience of the par
ents, who will have to take into
consideration road conditions for a
return trip.
Barbara Ann Gordy Weds Ag Student
Wednesday Last Day for POW Talks
Hope for US Explanations
Dims /Is Deadline IS!ears
Miss Barbara Ann Gordy, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Quhana Gordy
of Bryan, became the bride of Carl
Douglas Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. A. Davis of Premont, in a cere
mony at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the
Baptist Student Center. Dr. W.
H. Andrews pastor of the First
Btptist Church in Bryan officiated.
The groom is a senior physics
major at A&M. The bride is a
senior at Stephen F. Austin high
school in Bryan.
The bride was married in a white
lace & net waltz length dress. She
carried a white orchid with a bridal
Bible.
The bride chose as her matron-
of-honor Miss Wanda Green of
Amarillo . Miss Green wone a blue
waltz leng-th dress.
Gilbert Brigham of Denison was
best man.
Miss Earlene Carlton sang “The
Lord’s Prayer” and “I Love You
Truly”.
After a weel-
and Mrs. Smith
heme in College
honeymoon, Mi
are making thei
Station.
By FORREST EDWARDS
PANMUNJOM—nSP)—A snarl of
last-minute delays today all but
snuffed out Allied hopes for inter
views with 22 Americans who stay
ed with the Communists as Red ■
explainers chalked up their best
score to date.
Gen. John E. Hull, U.S. Far East :
commander, indicated that the Al
lies have given up hope that any
of the 22 will return home.
Hull said the Americans have
had both time and opportunity to
change their minds since they were
turned over to Indian custody Sept.
25.
The Allies’ only chance of con
tacting the prisoners before the
midnight Wednesday deadline ap
peared to be through delivery of a
12-page letter addressed to each
The Neutral Nations Repatria
tion Commission ruled that the
POWs must agree to accept the
letter from an Allied explanation
team. Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimyya,
Indian chairmpn of the commission,
suit! he would get the Americans’
answer tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the Reds won back
34 of 250 Chinese captives as in
terviews were resumed after a 34-
day stalemate.
WON’T COME HOME — Cpl.
Claude J. —Batchelor (above) of
Kermit, Tex., is one of the 22
U. S. servicemen in North Ko
rean prisoner of war camps who
have refused repatriation.
This not only was the greatest
number of prisoners the Commun
ists have won back in a single day
but was almost triple their best
j previous record percentage-wise.
The previous records were set
| Oct. 31 when 21 of 459 Nor th Ko
reans—4.6 per cent—elected to re
turn to Communist rule. The best
previous record with Chinese pris-
; oners was far- below this—10 won
back out of 430 interviewed Oct.
17, a percentage of only 2.4.
In eight days of interviews the
j Communists have talked to 2,081
j prisoners and have won back .104
■ or 3.9 per ceirt.
Communist refusal to interview
i entire 500-man compounds in a
: single day precipitated the long
' suspension of explanations.
A few prisoners cursed and spat!
; at the persuaders today, but therei
! was none of the violence which
marked earlier explanation .ses
sions.
Some of the prisoners walked
into the tents with their minds ob
viously made up, but others ap
peared to be convinced during long
and quiet interviews.
Gen. Hull told newsmen in Seoul
he is interested only in being cer-
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EEFUSES REPATRIATION —-
Sgt. R, E. Douglas of San An
gelo, Tex., (above) is one of the
22 American prisoners of war-
held in North Korea who have
refused repatriation.
American prisoners
to choose their fu-
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tain that the
have freedom
ture.
“The thing that we have stood
for always has been freedom of
choice,” he said.
Chances for interviews with the
22 Americans, 1 Briton and 77
SouthKoreans dwindled further
Monday when the repatriation
commission put off until Tuesday
discussion of a long protest from
the prisoners.
The Americans and Briton re
fuse to attend interviews until the
Koreans are processed and the Ko
reans refuse to attend until they
are permitted to make counter-
explanations. The commission has
refused to permit this.
No interviews , can be conducted
after midnight Dec. 23—90 days
after the prisoners were turned ov
er to neutral custody. Allied offi
cers said it was unlikely there
would be time to talk with the
Americans even if all of the pris
oners’ demands were met.
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