BRITISH PLAN FOR KOREA

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26832, 10 September 1952, Page 9

BRITISH PLAN FOR KOREA

New Truce Move At Panmunjon (N.Z. Press Association-Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 8. Britain has proposed to the United States and her other allies a new move at the Panmunjon conference table to break the Korean truce deadlock over the exchange of war prisoners, according to a dispatch from the United Press correspondent in London. He says that the accent in the new proposal is on speed, in the hope of solving the knotty problem, before it can confront the United Nations General Assembly meeting next month in New York. r The nature and details of the British undertaking are ton secret.

If the exchanges bear fruit it is hoped to put the propost.l before the Communist truce team soon. European members of the United Nations are reported to be eager to keep the Korean war out of the United Nations Assembly, at least until after the presidential elections in the United States in November.

It is reported that Britain has no intention of abandoning the Western stand against the forcible repatriation of unwilling prisoners of war—the sole issue blocking an armistice in Korea —but that means are being considered by which it should prove possible to solve repatriation problems. The correspondent says the new undertaking is‘related to anxiety in British quarters over the likelihood that if the deadlock is not refeolved at the conference table soon, solution by force might be inevitable sooner or later. . . . Responsible quarters in London feel that any hope of a settlement should be nourished, provided the Chinese actually do desire peace.