LEST WE FORGET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600440017-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 22, 1962
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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journ1"merican
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1962 ***
Lest We Forget
for debate toda
United Nations comes u
p
y
.n the General Assembly-and this year all the
rguments for denying Red China a seat are
ummed up in the forlorn and tragic figures
f an American mother and her son.
Mrs. Ruth r. ond, of Yonkers, is in Red
hina to visit her son, Hugh, who is serving a
entente of life imprisonment in Shanghai for
`espionage." She is carrying a few. things for
i.m - shoes, swi ers, vitamin pills-but
ostly she is carrying a mother's indomitable
lope that somehow, somewhere, she can bring
bout his release.
Mr. Redmond was an importer for a.
obacco.firm when he was seized and sentenced
1 long years ago. He is onc..aL _four Americans
till held by the. Communists. The o;,.are
3ishop James E. Walsh of the Roman Catholic
hurch;:.,?, c'ecteau, of Lynn, Mass., and
obn,.Downey, of New Britain, Conn.,:civilian
Mmplgyes of the U. S Army.
, They are captives of a savage and ruthless
,government. Their voices cannot be heard
ere where we are safe and free, but they speak
onetheless with terrible clarity. It is to be
.oiled that our delegation to the UN-and the.
mericaf people-will match one mother's
ndomitable hope with indomitable determi-
ation to keep Red China out of the society of
CPYRGHT
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