Too Much Neutrality

A small plane stood on an airfield in South Korea at dawn one day last week, waiting to take on passengers bound for the north. They were Polish, Czech and Swiss members of a neutral nations' truce inspection team which had been keeping check on the airfield's traffic. Just as the plane was ready to take off, one of the neutrals, pale, thin Jan Hajdukiewicz of Poland, ran from his colleagues to the side of U.S. Major Edward Moran. "I'm afraid to go back to Communism!" he blurted out to the non-neutral major. "I don't wish to return. It's my last chance!" "O.K.," said the major, "stay here." A Polish officer standing by glared furiously.

Next day at a press conference, the young refugee from neutrality told his story. Born in Poland, he had learned English at the University of Lodz, had never before been out of Poland. When had he first hoped to escape? "The day they came to the import-export government agency in Lodz where I worked and offered me the inspection team job."

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