The Prisoner of War Situation in Korea: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, June 9, 1952U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 - 27 lappuses |
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action American prisoners background barbed-wire bloodshed board of inquiry Boatner brigadier certainly Chairman cheap South Korean Clark COLLINS Colonel Howley command COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Communist mind Communist prisoners Compound 76 dealing decision difficult Discussion Dodd and Colson Dodd incident East Siberian Sea enclosure experience fact Fleet FLOOD forcibly resist FRANK PACE Geneva Convention Germans give handling hard core hostesses island judgment Katyn kind Koje Island Korean refugees leaders Let me say ment munists never ratified North number of guards NUMBER OF PRISONERS operation prison camp prisoners of war Pusan question record responsibility Ridgway riots ROBERT L. F. SIKES ROK guards screening prisoners SCRIVNER second reply Secretary PACE situation small area South Korean troops statement story SUBCOMMITTEE supplied later talking thing tion treatment of prisoners trouble truce unarmed United Nations United States Army Van Fleet violence weapon World War II Yount
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19. lappuse - The Psychological Warfare Board with the National Security Council, and the Department of Defense, and the Department of S'tate operating jointly. Mr. FLOOD. The Psychological Warfare Board ? Mr.
3. lappuse - on our front-line manpower. When these prisoners were first taken, they were placed in enclosures which were divided into various compounds which are surrounded by barbed-wire fences. At first no difficulty arose in the prison camp. In fact, the prisoners seemed to be a rather contented
9. lappuse - It is not a matter of numbers. General COLLINS. Yes, sir; partially it is. Mr. SCRIVNER. Still I will bet you money, marbles or chalk that ' whether the number is 12,000 or 120,000, American prisoners in a Red prison camp are not ruling the roost.
21. lappuse - Not all refugees or civilians? General COLLINS. If this is going to be published—off the record. Secretary PACE. You talk of screening. I do not think anybody has any concept of the problems when such large numbers of people are involved.
21. lappuse - Mr. FLOOD. I have been advised by nongovernmental persons on whose judgment I have a very high respect as students of international law, that the Geneva Convention, not within the language of the covenant, but as the international
10. lappuse - The growing of food for their own use is a noncombat activity. General COLLINS. I could not give you a definite answer to that. General COLLINS.
10. lappuse - from Koje over to Pusan to unload ships. Living up to the Geneva Convention, we could use them only for unloading foodstuffs and things of that character, not ammunition. Mr. SIKES. If I may interrupt, Mr. Flood, to ask this question : Has any effort been made to get constructive work out of these prisoners, to keep them busy and, if so. with what success has it been attended?
10. lappuse - Mr. SIKES. It seems to me that if they were kept busy, they would not have as much time to stir up devilment. General COLLINS.
10. lappuse - Are they permitted or directed to grow food for their own use? That is permitted under the Geneva Convention rules. Mr.
19. lappuse - I do not want to read this at this point, but I think this should be inserted in