RUSSIA REJECTS PLAN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 71, Issue 55, 14 December 1950, Page 5

RUSSIA REJECTS PLAN

CEASEFIRE IN KOREA FEAR OF NEW ATTACK <N.Z.P A.---Copyright) (Rec. 12.15.) NEW YORK, Dec. 13. The Soviet Union to-day rejected an Asian-Arab plan for a Korean cease-fire on the ground that the United Slates and Britain would use the truce to prepare their forces for a new attack.

Mr Jacob Malik, Soviet delegate, told the United Nations’ Political Committee that there could be no peace in Korea until all United Nations troops were withdrawn. “My delegation will vote against the draft resolution before the committee,” he said, “and we will object to the adoption of any resolution which has implicit in it the maintenance of foreign troops in Korea.”

Mr Malik was speaking in the debate on a cease-fire proposal put forward by India and 12 other AsianArab nations with the support of the United States and Britain. A companion measure calling for a peace conference to settle existing issues in the Far East was to be considered later.

Mr Malik said he did not question the motives of the Asian-Arab nations in sponsoring the cease-fire proposal, but the United States and Britain were interested only in the strictly limited objective of the cease-fire and not in settlement of other political objectives. Mr Malik said that as far as Britain and the United States were concerned the cease-fire proposal was “hypocritical camouflage intended to obtain a breathing spell for further military action, to get their broken ranks into order again and then to continue armed intervention.”

Referring to the communique issued last night by President Truman and Mr Attlee, Mr Malik said: “It shows again that the authors of the communique did not seek peace or the possibility to talk of peace. They seek a mad armaments race and preparation for a new war.”

Mr Jean Chauvel, French delegate, joined with the United States and Britain in supporting the cease-fire resolution. He declared that the application of the cease-fire should be limited to military aspects of the Korean question, and not allowed to affect political problems of the Far East.