Korea v. Dead Indians

In a fierce skirmish of the Korean war in late 1950, Army Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud Jr., an American Indian from Wisconsin, died gallantly, won the U.S. Medal of Honor for holding his position, though mortally wounded. At ceremonies earlier this month, honoring Red Cloud and other Indians killed in Korea, peppery old (82) Korean President Syngman Rhee loosed a surprise blast at some of Hollywood's vaguely historical horse operas. Cried Rhee: "Movie producers [should] stop making films that show American Indians being killed by white men. It is very, very unwise and inhumane. The Communists are making use of such films to back up their claims that the Americans are a colonial power bent on enslaving the colored races. If America continues to make such movies, Americans will not be able to escape the criticism that white men came to America to destroy all yellow people in order to take over the whole American continent."

Last week Rhee's Education Ministry implemented his appeal, slapped a censorship ban on all "movies showing mistreatment of American Indians and reflecting colonialist thinking."

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