KOREA’S FUTURE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25305, 3 October 1947, Page 7

KOREA’S FUTURE

AMERICAN PROPOSAL TO U.N.* (Rec) 12.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 1. “It is learned authoritatively,” says the United Press, “that the United States will ask the United Nations General Assembly to set a date for the withdrawal of both American* and Soviet troops from Korea and to create a special commission to supervise

The United States resolution will also suggest that the United Nations supervise early elections as the first step toward Korean independence. It will formally abandon all previous plans to place Korea under trusteeship. “It is expected that the resolution will urge the Assembly to set 1949 as the date for ending the occupation of Korea.”

U.N. COMMITTEE on INDONESIA MR TRUMAN APPQINTS REPRESENTATIVE (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct 1. President Truman has appointed Dr. Frank P. Graham, president of North Carolina University, to represent' the United States in the United Nations’ effort to solve the Indonesian dispute. Australia and Belgium, the other two countries on the international committee which will use its “good offices’’ to try to settle the dispute, have already appointed their representatives, namely, Mr Justice Kirby and Mr Paul Van Zeeland. The Security Council appointed the committee on August 25. U.S. MINISTER TO BULGARIA APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Oct. 1. The Acting-Secretary of State (Mr Robert Lovett) announced to-day the appointment of Mr Donald Heath as the United States first post-war Minister to Bulgaria. Mr Lovett emphasised that the resumption of full xjfecognition for Bulgaria did not mean either approval or condemnation of certain recent actions by the Bulgarian Government. Reuters said that this statement was obviously aimed at avoiding the impression that the move constituted any change in the policy of the United States, which had condemned the execution of Mr Nikola Petkov, the Bulgarian Opposition leader. APPOINTMENTS IN U.S. AIR FORCES ALASKAN AND GERMAN COMMANDS (Rec, 11.45 p.m.) x WASHINGTON, October 2. A reorganisation of the united States Army Air Forces under General Carl Spaatz as Chief of Staff includes the transfer to Alaska and Germany of two war-seasoned strategists. General Nathan Twining, whose crews dropped the atomic bombs on Japan, will command the Alaskan forces, and MajorGeneral Curtis Lemay will be promoted to lieutenant-general to command the Air Force in Germany.