John Gunther person
also: Gunther
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
United Statescountry · 2Koreacountry · 2Syngman Rheeperson · 2Japancountry · 1Douglas MacArthurperson · 1Alfred Croftsperson · 1
Claims (1)
John Gunther reported
Korea book_quoted
“On the 25th, American writer John Gunther was in Japan preparing his biography of General MacArthur. As he recounts in the book, he was playing tourist in the town of Nikko with two important members of the American occupation. When one of …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 28:42
Mentions (5)
▶ 28:42
On the 25th, American writer John Gunther was in Japan preparing his biography of General MacArthur. As he recounts in the book, he was playing tourist in the town of Nikko with two important members of the American occupation. When one of …
▶ 29:11
That evening, Gunther and his party returned to Tokyo where several officers met us at the station to tell us correctly and with much amplification what had happened. There was no doubt whatsoever that North Korea was the aggressor, except …
▶ 29:34
Gunther explains the message may have been garbled in transmission. Nobody knew anything much at the headquarters the first few hours, and probably people were taken in by the blatant coercive lies of the North. There is something a little …
▶ 48:57
John Gunther, hardly a radical, summed up the situation this way, quote, so the first and best chance at building a united Korea was tossed away, unquote. And Alfred Crofts, a member of the American military government at the time, has writ…
▶ 52:32
And the re-government was decisively repudiated. The resentment was manifested in the form of frequent rebellions, including some guerrilla warfare in the hills, from 1946 to the beginning of the war. And even during the war, the rebellions…