Show I Korea Resembles Tower lower of Babel Speech Barriers Cause Battleground Comedy SITUATIONS arise in Korea Korea Korea Ko- Ko C COMIC rea when troops speaking one I tongue meet troops speaking another an another ariI ari- other or try to communicate with with the Korean people A Turkish patrol was sent to guard a railroad crossing The guards took their orders literally and stopped even the train which they would not let pass until orders from headquarters arrived The train crew spoke Korean and Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese and none of the Turks knew those languages Some Turkish troops were sent to toa toa toa a hilltop to see what lay ahead and saw a battalion of South Koreans who caught sight of the Turkish red crescent and star emblem The South Koreans immediately seized the Turks While the Turks were trying to explain in Turkish the South Koreans gloated in Korean GHQ had to straighten out the me mess s. s An American correspondent was riding in a jeep with a lone GI driver A convoy of trucks loaded with Turkish troops was stalled on the road bumper to bumper There was no room to pass as some of i the trucks had stopped two abreast The corporal driving the jeep was wasa I a little bit skittish of the Turkish officers he saw and the correspondent correspondent correspondent corre corre- had to get out and ask for passage through the convoy The Turks thought he just wanted to chat and explained to him it seemed in Turkish just what they were doing to relieve the traffic mess The writer also thought he could detect expressions of solicitude solid solid- tude about the correspondents correspondent's he health and that a of the family |