"APPEASEMENT” CHARGE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27040, 15 May 1953, Page 9

"APPEASEMENT” CHARGE

SENATOR ATTACKS BRITISH VIEW WASHINGTON, May 13, If Britain insisted on an appeasement with the Communists, the United States must be prepared to go it alone in Korea, Senator William Knowland, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said in the Senate today. . He said it would be a tragic mistake for the United Nations to accept the Communist proposals to hand over to five neutral nations those prisoners of war who did not want to go home. Senator Knowland attacked the positions taken in the House of Commons by Sir Winston Churchill and Mr Attlee during the debate on Korea. “What, in effect, Sir Winston Churchill and Mr Attlee were saying to us by their speeches in Parliament was that we should accept the Communist eight-point proposal and should stop trying to clarify or modify the proposal to maintain the principles for which we have suffered 135,000 casualties in the last two years and a half. “In effect, what they have told us is that if we do not accept their advice and the Chinese Communists persist fa the war, we must be prepared to go it alone. So be it.” Senator Wayne Morse said: “We had better sit down and work out some understanding with our Allies, rather than criticise them on the floor of the United States Senate.”