12. OLDAL
KANADAI MAGYAR WÓNKÁS
By CAPT. G. S. WUCHIMICH ^
I HEARD an eight-j^ear-old boy ask hís ptaymates: »Are the Koreans bád peopíe?« And a little girl stood beside him wondering with her qüestions, »How big. is the atom bomb?« They had been playing cowboys witb other child-ren and they had wearied, sat down in^a group and eam-estly brought up thé real war which touches every family.
How do American fathers and mothers ánswer, these questions?
iWhat answer would you give to children?
There are others who once were children. and nów men, not playüigr in the parks and fielda of America deepvalleys of Korea in which tO" live or - die our American Iwys. They are on-íthe spot» away from swivel chairs, írom war cont-' ractSi - from wall m^ps> and from high blown and high. flown com-mentators. They are down to the earth './itn all its gaping craters and tom flesh, its mud and dark nights split with red flashes of gunfire and howííng screams;
They, too, are askíng — »Why, why miist we fight?<
One iong report after another -in the N.. Y. »Times« telis of strange feelings by Grs» They do not know why they are in Korea; no one ia giving the right answer. The pat phrase >fighting against commwüsm« can't^ quite balance off the tragedy and suffering flooding over Korea. A new American GI arrival at the hattlefront when asked by a correspondent for what was he fighting, anawered:
»I tlipught we were the United Nations, but where are the others?*
It^£i terrible to be alone in strange and unfriendly land at night. '
No betterj Picture só far has come oút: öf the war than the one in the N. Y, >JÖaily Mirror« -űf August 11, which spread óver the front page a scene showing a very old Koreán man, grabbed by an arm on each side by young GI; the three of them striding down a road while the old man's graying ^ head was tumed to the sky in a pleadihg stare. ^
>Are the Koreans bád' people «
The old man's face gave the answer, for it was that of the men and women. once held in the in himxan grip of the Gestapo, and hurried off to concentration camps; to gaÍ3 chambers, to torture and to death.
The caption wxiter gavé the Picture what he thought was a ele ver twist •— >Caging a Guer^ rjlla.<
But in the Autómat .at23rd Street here I had lunch ánd held out the paper to read, a busyNew Yorker at the same table craned his neö^ and between munching bites, took up what hls eyes saw, withr
>God» just look at him — we're fighUiig old peopIe.« while another at the table* attracted by the words and picture. said:
>Why, that's the same picture I saw on television last night —-aln't it axvful?<
, American war experts and gene-rals complain our boys don't have enough >git and go< and yet Koreans seem to have no trouble get-ting old mén to fight
>Peasants Outclass the Mighty US A,* was a London headline which Washington tried to stop. •Wie world secms to enjoy American defeats. James Reston, >Timesc political pundit, reports all Asia listen tö the Soviet Union instcad of Washington; that two thlrdsof the world's pcople bclieve America is not only an aggressor but a warmonger. r
pthcr photcKS show men, women eCáú chUdren dead tn Korea, killed at á<»TStepB or whil© washlng clothcQ. This Is no longer wár — this Is Imrbarlsm, Why Is it other nations, c^edálly those d India ahd Eiurope refuse to mnú troopsL
The American man in the Street picks this up and wantsan answer, for one said to me, after I showedhim the »DaiIy Mirror* picture:
»Somebody's buli s—, Christ,,we 've just been through one war. rm no politician. but if this |s a Uni-' ted Nations fight, where in the hell are the others>— or, are we^in America wrong?<
évery point, whether a
cirowdéd. Autómat in New York or fhé^pler at Port Píisar^ questlona aré' being £űBked. tíomt people are maidng théir t>wn ánswera-^bout 273,500,000 of.tóemdld when they aigned ihe World Pcace AppeaL
People are ntít bad — all over the world they wánt peace.
But| in the bárbarism that calls itself war in Korea, the Americáns are' on the road to becoming tl^e bad peópIe to over 1,500,000,000 colored humán beings. Each d&y prdves that American foreignpo-licy is fighting the whole of Korea and sends out fresh orders for more machines, arms, munitions and American - flesh to spill the blood further.
It is time to cail a halt — Hands off Korea'!
Or eíse, will the world of men, women and children away from our öhores be saying of us,! as they sald of Hitier's supermen who wanted to conquer, that »A-merícáni are bad people«?
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MÍECIUS 3-án érkeztünk meg Kanadából a gyönyörű Budapestre. Részemre felejthetetlen élmény volt a megér-kezésünlc. Mig letelepedtünk állandóra, én is sokat járkáltam Anyuékkal, aztán Apukámmal elmentünk beíratni engem a Sziget-utcai iskolába, amely egy szép nagy isko-
gyének, táborba Viszik, ugyanis a-zoknak csinált a Magyar Népkormány egy nj^ri tábort, Ebben a táborban mindenféle szórakozás és ingyenes étkezés van.
Legközelebbi levelemben bővebben irok úttörői nyaralásunkról.
E LEV£L írója, Oréczula Elári (középen) sziaöivél egíjrtitt JSí>nt-reálbdl vándorolt Mágysut>rszágba,
la. utána teljes három: hónapig jártam iskolába, ahol elég' jó eredményt értem el;
Mihelyst beiratkoztam, a pajtásaim mindjárt avval jöttek hozzám, hogy »be-irátkbzol azyuttörők közé? leszel úttörő ?« Mire min-
den kérdésre feleltem, addigra azt vettem észre, hogy megkezdődött a tanulás.
Az első nap mind csak kérdésékkel Voltam tele. De már a második és harmadik nap nekem is neki kellett látni á tanulásnak. Nagyon sokat tanultam, hogy u-tóléijem a többieket Utói Is értem, de a többiek segítségével. A pajtások mind azt akarták, hogy átmei^ék a nyolcadik osztályba és ezért nagyon sokat segitettek nekem.
itten az a szokás, hogy ha valaki jól tanul és amugyis jó úttörő, akkor -a^t ném hagyják csak ugy^ hanem vörös nyakkendőt adnak neki, ami itten egy nagyon nagy kitüntetés, mivel a vörös zászlónak egy részét hordják az
THIS SHOCfima photograpfa, captured by Peopl^^^^ In Korea,
shows a Koreán girl tied to a'stake, ready fOr tórturé — to j>erxtort infonnation« —-and f or execütion by the U; S^traUied, snpervlsed and bnlformed police'of the U. S. puppet Syngnmn Rhee régime
)»CANNOrr BE DBSCMBEDa Koreán correspondent, John Osbome ofMFE'magaziné (Aug. 21, page 77) wrote: / /
. ,»To attempt to win it (the war "against the CJömmunlsts in Asia"), as we :are doing now in Korea, la not only to cöurt final failure, but
^ also to. for<» upon our men in the field acts and attitudes of the ut-most sayageiy . the blotting ouÍ of villageis where tbe enemy
ilyen kitüntetettek magukon éS az az a vörös zászló, ami felszabadított bennünket. És aki ezt a kitüntetést megkapja, az nagyon büszke rá és nagyon vigyáz arra a vörös nyakkendőre. Hát én is nagyon büszlte vagyok és nagyon vigyázok rá, mivel én is vörös nyakkendős úttörő vagyok, fis az évzáró üimepélyen leptek engem meg ewcl a vörös njrakkendővel.
Már másnap vitték minket városi táborba. Azokat a gyerekeket, akiknek a szülei nem tudnak fizetni, hogy egész nyáron kint le-
»B HAVE cóme: here to ralse our vpicés on báhalf of our generation of Canad^pmscr, ssdd the statment J>f the youhg peoples delégations "of the i*eace Congress Lobby of Women and Youth last Week at Ottawa. V ' ■ >We yoimg Canadians don't WMit to go to war. We,don;t want our Jtrothers to go, out husbands«, emphasised the statemeiit addres-sed to the Mémbers pf Parliainent, leaders of parties, ená to the gó-verntmeht öf Cana^a: y
»This crisis can be settled peace^ fully without the sacrlficé of Can-adiah lives^ and without its déve-lopment ihto a third world war. The Prime Minister has said that pressing the war in Koreai may well bring an era of laisting peace. We cannot accept that It wUl nót bring peace. Tp us it appearsthat it VTill bring increasedmisery and agony, bbth the Óánadlans ánd Koreans... a misery and agony v^ch, we stress, can be avoided.
We young people look för a fu-ture where the resources of our countty ai:e iised to make a better world for youth, not to kill people. We waht to learh trades and prac-tice them, 'ive want more and cheapér education, we want swlm-ming pools not atombombs.
We look for a future where friendship and pcace with the youth of other lands are strength-ened and encouraged. We look for a future free from the fear of war, a future in which we can work.to mako a finer and better Canada. . .
We thfercfore call upon you to act for pcace. That is what wé are here for, and that is what we ask you tp speak and votc for.«
may .be;lildlng; the shebting ánd shelling ofrefiigees Who may inclnde North.Koreans . . .. ;~ ;
: »Thére Is the;.j5avaéery by proxy, the;)sayagexyof: thé South Koreán police . y TI^ South Koreán poUcean^ have observed in frPnt line 'areás are bmtál. Tih^-ibaürder to' savé themselves the iTOuble of^esböiling prispners to Ihe^^^^n slmplo to get th^ out pf the way i .. And tfiay extort^^^ — infor-matipn oür forcea neéd of the Soúth Koreán Interrogators -r- by means so brutal üiat th^ cannot W de8crlbed.«; , - -
Osbome run into situatipns liké thisí »I^ha the cpmn^ P^st an urgent and leanonstrating voice speaks over the wire intő the bilis, **My Ood, John, It^a gone too far when we are efiioofing children.^ There Is somé reply from the hills, and at the end, the officer says, <'Watch iV John, watch It! But don't fake any chance8.''e
THE DEaSDNpTEATibN above'ls |b-o^ámtlon of the'.riecond ^nnl-veraary of Horea'a Uberatlon la one.-ot Ihe towná oí North Korea ' . . ' In imi. ■