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Feb. 29 A GLIMPSE BEHIND THE BAMBOO CURTAIN AT THE MEN WHO WENT EAST INSTEAD OF WEST AFTER THE WAR IN KOREA. When the fighting in Korea was over and the P.O.W.s were re-patriated, only 21 Americans and one Briton elected to go to Communist China. Twenty two out of the thousands of United Nations soldiers who had been subjected to constant Red propaganda, was a small number, but the decisions made by those men shook the Western world. They were given every chance to change their minds, but all Western argument failed and they disappeared voluntarily, behind the Bamboo Curtain. Now the first pictures of these men taken since their arrival in the country of their choice have reached the West. They were taken in Peking where, it is said, they are going on sight seeing tours, playing games, shopping with money provided by the authorities, and relaxing in their quarters, while they study the situation in China before deciding upon their future careers. They have been provided with several made-to-measure suits each, American style neckties and although many of their meals are Western type, they are being encouraged to eat Chinese food, although none of them has mastered the use of chopsticks yet. Escorted through the streets of Peking, the departmental stores and the public parks like honored guests, their appearance drew stares from the Chinese, for the sight of a Western man in the streets of Peking these days, is rare indeed. The men who preferred the East to the West when the Korean war was over, make a sightseeing tour of their new country. Here they are in the grounds of the Summer Palace in Peking. Front row Left to Right: Pfc. Samuel D. Hawkins; Pfc. James G. Veneris; Sgt. Richard Corden; Cpl. John R. Dunn; Sgt. Andrew Fortuna; Behind from bottom to top: Sgt. Scott L. Rush; Pfc. Arlie H. Pate; Cpl. A.C. Belhomme; Andrew Condron (the British soldier); Sgt. Harold H. Webb; Sgt. Howard G. Adams; Pfc. Richard R. Tennson; Pfc. Lowell O. Skinner; Cpl. William A. Cowart

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