Re: Race Relations and Korea

["Young Kim" <y_s_k@worldnet.att.net>]

The History Channel footage (I forgot its title) showed Mac' G2 chief (Gen.
Willowsby sp?) who had Gen. Franco's (of Spain) portrait hung in his office.

On June 25 (5 pm), 1950: MacArther said: "This is probably only a
reconnaissance in force.  If those asses back in Washington only will not
hobble me, I can handle it with one arm tied behind my back".

Gen. Ridgeway said: "The Chinese and Koreans are in appearance but a shade
above the human beast".

On July 2, 1950, Gen. Church said: "A few white soldiers will scare the shit
out of the gooks and the war would be over in no time at all.."

I don't fault the poor GIs who machine-gunned Korean women and children,
because the top commanders, who had created the 'hate-all-gooks' atmosphere,
were the guilty ones.

I must hasten to say that not all commanders and GIs were extreme racists
(in 1950, probably all white officers and soldiers were racists of varying
shade and intensity).   There were notable exceptions: for example, Donald
Nichols married a Korean girl and adopted two Korean kids and there were
many GIs (how many? I don't know) who fed and sheltered homeless Korean
'house boys'.



ysk


----- Original Message -----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ukans.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 9:39 AM
Subject: Race Relations and Korea


At 09:01 AM 4/5/2000 -0700, Young Kim wrote:
>According to the History
>Channel, Big Mac's 2nd in command was a fascist Franco's follower.
>

This is typical of the twaddle served up on television.

I suspect the reference was to then-MG Ned Almond, who was GEN MacArthur's
chief of staff and, also, X Corps Commander.  He was never MacArthur's "2nd
in command".  Nor, for that matter, was he a "fascist Franco's follower",
whatever that might mean.