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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday. Dec. 2, 1953
ROK Interviews Begin With Shutout by Reds
Panmunjom—(U.P.)—Communists scored a shutout today in the first attempt by United Nations interviewers to woo South Korean prisoners of the Reds over to democracy.
Thirty men and women came, shouting Red slogans and singing Communist songs. They listened. Then all 30 turned their backs on their anti-Communist homeland and marched back to Red custody—still chanting their songs and slogans.
They also were expected to use the example of the South Koreans in an attempt to influence the "22 American GIs and one Briton, who chose to remain in Communist hands when other prisoners were exchanged, to resist UN "come home" appeals.
The unanimous refusal of the South Koreans to return home gave the Communists a propaganda victory they were sure to exploit in broadcasts from Communist Pyongyang and Peiping radios.
The first explanation sessions were entirely orderly. Only one or two of the South Koreans interviewed spoke abusively to the smartly uniformed Korean officers who talked with them. One jumped to his feet and demanded that a tape recording be shut off. It carried the voices of a civilian woman prisoner, her husband and two children who asked repatriation last month.
Many of the prisoners chain-smoked nervously as they listened to patient explanations, tape recordings and South Korean patriotic songs.
Three of those interviewed today were women—one an attractive young girl in pig tails and a baggy, padded uniform who met attempts to be sympathetic and understanding with a brusque "I am not going to abuse you. I have respect for you. But get on with your lecture."
South Korean explanation teams carefully schooled for their task did not plead, intimidate or attempt to argue with their former comrade in arms. They made an obvious effort to demonstrate to the prisoners that South Korea did not wish their allegiance if they had become firmly convinced of Communist doctrine.
Obviously all had.
It remained anybody's guess whether the first 30 hard-bitten prisoners were typical of the other 298 South Koreans, and the American and British who remained to be interviewed.
Brig, Gen, Paik Yon Joon, the South Korean repatriation commander, suggested that those interviewed today may have been "hand picked" by the Reds for their reliability. Their idea, he said, would be to score a propaganda victory at the outset which could be used to
influence those who come before the UN teams later.
Maj. Edward Moorer of Tacoma, Wash., chief American repatriation officer said. "This is about what we had expected."
Sudan Seeks Egyptian 'Link'
Khartoum, Sudan —(U.P.)— T he president of the National Union party, which won the Sudan elections, said today his party has no commitment for union with Egypt.
but the party leader, Ismail El Azhari, said that the National Unionists do favor "some form of link" with their neighbor to the north.
"The National Union party has no commitment for union with Egypt," he said. "Other parties before us have such commitments. But my party has none.
"The Sudan, as we see it, would be completely independent, with a link with Egypt—not union, but a link.
"We have explained to the people that the new government means a transfer of authority from British hands to the Sudanese. The new government will be a servant of the people."
Asked what economic policy the Sudan would follow, El Azhari said "We shall need foreign capital and technical help.
"We shall be prepared to give concessions of a reasonable time to foreign firms; but our trade must be free. We must sell to the highest bidder and buy from the best and cheapest markets," he said.
"Every form of foreign influence must be removed from the Sudan—British, Egyptian and Russian." (The latter was a reference to recent Communist activities in the area.)
Foreign capital will be welcome if it is for purely commercial purposes."
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washington —(U.P.)— Pink Williams, the 62-year-old Oklahoma "cowboy" who offered by mail a free kick-in-the-objvjuus-place to any cattleman who voted Republican, shipped among the picture postcards today for his defense against a postoffice obscenity charge.
"Where I come from they don't consider a kick in the rear obscene," said Mr. Williams. "Anyway, the cards I sent out weren't anything at all compared to the stuff you can buy at most postcard counters."
The postoffice has, empounded Mr. Williams' mail on the ground that this was obscene. It also has accused him of using an alias because he offered additional copies of his cards (at 20 for $1) and gave his mail address as "Cowboy, Box 157, Caddo, Okla."
He said he intends to show postal examiner James C. Haynes some of his more lurid purchases at a hearing tomorrow. The postoffice charges that Mr. Williams carried a joke too far when he sent through the mails an invitation to a crow picnic and "public a—kicking" for "all cattlemen who voted for like."
Mr. Williams said most of the 950 people in Caddo known him as "Cowboy Pink Williams" and that box 157 is one he has had for years. He said the alias charge was ridiculous.
Cowboy said he voted Republican, himself and was sorry, and that he had followed faithfully his own prescription.
"My sister came 500 miles to kick me," he said. "She lives in Houston."
Cowboy is unhappy mainly with President Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture. Ezra T. Benson, who he said keeps telling people that cattle prices are still pretty good and that cattlemen aren't so bad off.
Mr. Benson means well, Mr. Williams said, but he just meets the wrong cattlemen.
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"When he came out to the West the people he saw drove Cadillacs. Sure they did. They were oil men. They just raise cattle for a hobby.
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