Only days before, Bush had officially acknowledge for the first time that the CIA relies on buggings and burglaries to obtain information on American citizens abroad. Bush did not deny that this policy continues today.

His admission appeared in a sworn affidavit filed in response to questions put by the Socialist Workers Party and the Young Socialist Alliance as part of their lawsuit against government harassment.

ABC-TV was in suburban Washington to record Bush's response to the public disclosure. Do the burglaries continue? they asked him. Aren't they illegal?

Bush refused to provide details about the dates or locations of the foreign electronic surveillance. Secrecy was necessary, he said, to protect the "sources and methods" of the CIA. A twenty-nine-page Justice Department legal memorandum filed with the Bush affidavit asserts that the CIA has a right to keep secret details about its activities under something it calls the "secret of state privilege."

July 30, 1951
Above everything else, American troops in Korea want to go home.

This is made clear in an Associated Press dispatch from Kaesong, July 22.

"American soldiers in Korea," the dispatch states "using a parody on the 'Prisoners song' that goes like this:

"Now if a had ten thousand dollars,

"I'd go to the general and say:

"I am leaving Korea tomorrow,

"Because no boats are leaving today."

But the reporter continues, "Peace in Korea will not mean that Johnny will be marching home right away. Even after withdrawal from Korea, the chances are that the U.S. Eighth Army will move to Japan and Okinawa. The latter is being developed as a U.S. base and a treaty is in the works with Japan on stationing American troops in Japan after the occupation ends.

Since the beginning of the Korean war the American troops have told reporters that they did not know why they were there, and they did not believe in the war. Both the soldiers themselves and the overwhelming majority of the American people have wanted to bring the troops home and end the war.

But U.S. imperialism has by no means given up its plan to dominate Asia, to suppress and destroy the independence of the Asian peoples.  
 
 
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