Evening star., 1952-10-05
How Have
We Failed
In Korea?
The Korea Story
BY John C. Caldwell.
(Regnery; $3.)

ested in the non-military ones.
Born in China of missionary
parents, he went to Korea as q
civilian. information specialist
for the Army in 1948, stayed on
for a time with the State De-
partment's information staff and
was operating his own business
In Seoul when the North Ko-
reans launched their invasion.
Eager to see a free and inde-
pendent Korea, he worked en-
Enthusiastically to help set up the
first Korean election. But he
has little good to say for the
big State Department mission
which took over American re-
sponsibilities from the Army in
1949. Some Americans made
valiant efforts, Mr.. Caldwell
says, but pyramiding Of en-
ployes, many Of them incapable
of understanding the Koreans.
led to bureaucratic confusion
and inefflciency.
Mr.. Caldwell makes no effort
to conceal his dislike for officers
of the permanent foreign serv-
ice. He touches only lighly on
military decisions during the
occupation which helped set the
pattern of which he complains.
But there can be doubt Of his
main thesis. that something Is
wrong with American methods
of exporting democracy. His
book, written in collaboration
with Lesley Frost, is a convinc-
ing argument that the people we
send abroad to represent us have
q great deal more to do with
our successes and failure than
does the amount Of money they
are given to spend.
Across the Space Frontier
Edited by Cornelius Ryan.
Viking; $3.95.)
Physics and Medicine Of
the Upper Atmosphere
Edited by Clayton s. White,
M. D., and Brig. Gen. Otis o.
Benson, jr. (MC), U. S. A. F.
UNIVERSITY of NeU Merico
Press; $10J
Reviewed By Williom Hines
Before the New World was
discovered the literature on the
lands beyond the sea-Atlantis.
Mu and the like-waS entirely
fancifu1. Today, with the in
vasion Of outer space still b
matter Of futurity. a good deal
of serious scientific study has
gone into the question of what
man will find when at last he
shakes free the shackles OF the
earth's gravitation.
The two books under review
here are. in their respective
fields, excellent examples of the
serious treatment being given
the subject Of outer space.
ACROSS the Space Frontier"
Is an expansion Of an issue OF
Golfers Magazine which bore
the general title. Man VIII
Conquer Space Soon" Six
authors, specialists in their re-
spective fields, have contributed
to the book. and Editor Ryan
has provided q brief introduc-
ton pointing up the fact that
we are now at the threshold Of
space. Golfers issue was di-
rected at needing the Gov
ernment into spending some
billions now in order to estab-
lish a space station. LOTS miles
up, as both a valuable scientific
laboratory and the ultimate
guardian Of world peace. The
book Is written in layman's
language.
Space Medicine
Far from a layman's tome.
however, is Physics and Medi-
cine Of the Upper Atmosphere"
This is a collection Of papers
offered at an Air Force space
medicine symposium. At Ran
dolph Field, Tex. little less
than a year ago. Four OF the
six authors who contributed to
space Frontier" are among the
three dozen whose papers made
up the symposium, Physics
and Medicine" is a highly tech
nical work, replete with scien-
tific jargon and mathematical
equations. Reading it is heavy
going every inch of the way, but
a disciplined mind with rudi-
mentary training in physics and
math can get q good bit out
of it.
Nearly 1000 years elapsed be-
tween the time the tales Of
Atlantis sprang up and the
American continent was settled.
Perhaps if serious study of the
size and shape of the earth and
action of its oceans currents
had been going on concurrently
with all the unbridled imagining
Of the storytellers, the New
World would have been found
many centuries before it was.
And maybe the scientific work
under way today means that
interplanetary travel is only 0
few years off.
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