U.S. TURNCOATS: A BOLD SHOW

ONE of the few Western journalists admitted to the Chinese Communist mainland in recent years is German Photographer Hilmar Pabel, member of the staff of the Munich picture magazine Quick. Pabel applied for a visa while covering the Moscow visit of a West German soccer team. A few months later, he was surprised when it was granted, with only one restriction: no photographs of military installations. In China, he roamed for ten weeks from Canton to Manchuria, interviewing Chinese and making a photographic record of whatever he saw. During five weeks in Peking, he met ten of the 16 remaining U.S. prisoners of war who chose to stay in Red China after the Korean truce. At People's University, where they are dragging out their third lonely year studying the Chinese language, he was allowed to take the pictures shown here. Pabel found the turncoats homesick, living on $40 a month each given them by the Chinese Red Cross. Afraid to return to the U.S., however, they still praise Red China's virtues, seem determined to make the best of it among their hosts "till the political climate changes back home."

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