TOKIO, 12 avril, (Reuter-U.P.-A.P.) _ C’est en proie à une émotion
violente que, toujours licencieux, le général Mac Arthur a quitté son Q.G.,
hier soir, après avoir passé ses consignes à son chef d’état-major, le gé-
néral Hickey. La garde d’honneur devant laquelle il passait pour gagner
sa limousine, avait peine à contenir la foule. Le général à salué simple-
« Still licentious, General MacArthur… »: the event shook up even the
typesetters. « The Third World War has begun. It has begun in Korea »,
wrote Marguerite Higgins. General Bradley was less strident: « Wrong war,
in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. » It
must be said that a certain difference of mentality appears, to objective eyes,
between a Chinese soldier confident that he is kicking the imperialists off
the Asian continent and the gang-ho roaring Marine who writes: « Who the
hell wants to blow up a column of Chinese? Not me. I’ve got nothing against
them. Nobody ever bothered to tell us why we should be angry. Something
about the U.N. or something like that there. And aggressors and stuff. I don’t
know. And I’m willing to bet that none of the other men up here know
either. » (Martin Russ -The Last Parallel). For lack of information they
mobilized Delacroix’s Liberty and the yellow peril (ROK’s excluded), with
Christ appearing in the sky over Korea (Paris Match, October 20, 1951). In
the POW camps, specialists in Psychological Action submitted the gooks to
statistics: « Two out of five Chinese volunteers are tubercular and one out
of five is mentally unbalanced. » Unfortunately we have no statistics on
the specialists in Psychological Action.