Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-26
BY LOIS MITCHIsoN

PElH1NNI, NIilIld VI - AoNS
spent an afternoon and two eve
nings with seven of the United
Nations ex-POWs-six Of them
Americans chose to stay in
Red China. They expect to re-
turn to their homes some time. :"
I had long talks with John R.
Dunn of Baltimore; Andrew For
tune of Ionia. Mich; Scott l..
Rush, Marietta, Ohio: Samuel D.
Hawkins, Oklahoma City; Clar-
ence C. Adams of Memphis,
Tenn, and Lawrence v. Sullivan
of Omaha, Nebr.. and Andrew
Condron of Bathgate, Scotland,
the only Briton among the vol
untary expatriateS.
Adams and Sullivan are Ne
groes.
I'm looking forward to going
back" Sullivan said, but I'm
waiting until conditions are ripe.
I want to be a good revolution
ary able to serve those peo-
pie in America, white as well as
Negro, 1 have seen experiencing
bitterness"
I'm going back when I'm sure
no men in leather jackets are
going to beat me up" Rush said.
Wants to Learn
Condron, the Briton, said that
since there's a lot OF ignorance
in the world and ignorance
makes wars" he wants to stay
in China long enough to learn
something about the country.
THE Scottish miner and the
Scottish worker, do you think
they know anything about what
goes on here? Maybe III be able
to tell them a Bit
Why did these prisoner
choose to stay in China? Ihey
gave different reasons.
Hawkins said he had joined
the Army at Is, more or less
by accident. I had a quarrel with
my sister over my automobile. y
He continued:
We'll. in Korea I'd heard all
those stories about cruelty, about
the way Chinese treated their
prisoners. Then I was wounded
when I was taken prisoner. and
the first thing the Chinese did
was take me straight to a base
hospital"
Condron said he also had
heard about the terrible Com
munists" whose prisoners had
been found shot with their
hands tied behind their backs. y
Then he was captured himself.
Expected Torture
THE terrible Communists
came up and shook hands and
said I was their brother" he
said. It said that was bunch
of hooey, and I still half ex-
pected to be tortured,
Then in the camp I had a lot
of time on my hands, and / did
a lot of reading. We had access
to newspapers-the New York
Daily Worker and the London
Daily Worker--and I read a lot
of books about Korea. My final
conclusion, and most of the
British prisoners thought the
same. was that we'd no bloody
right in Korea and the Ameri-
cans had no bloody right to fight
a war in Korea"
Both Hawkins and Condron
said they believed the Chinese
charges the Americans were
: waging germ warfare.
"A large bomb was found in
our camp" Hawkins said. 1T
was the prisoners who found it,
not the guards. The insects in
side the bombs had been mashed
a bit, and couldn't escape, so
there were a lot of them lying
around for US to see."
He added that a Negro pris-
oner called ''Pinky' became seri-
ously i'll after eating the head
of an ant a Chinese guard said
had been dropped from a germ
warfare bomb.
Signed Peace Petitions
Rush said he had signed
"peace petition after peace petit
ton" in the prison camp. Then,
he continued, after the little
switch" exchange Of sick and
wounded prisoners, he received
this version of how the petition
signers were treated:
They were summoned by
Senator tJoseph r. Mccarthy,
Republican OF, Wisconsin, and
the Un-Amefican Committee.
Just wanted peace, and didn't
want to be prosecuted. So, natu-
rally, ! stayed"
(Only United States military
authorities questioned re-
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