AGENDA FOR TALKS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27047, 23 May 1953, Page 7

AGENDA FOR TALKS

Issue Of China’s Seat In U.N.

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) [Rec. 11 pjn.) WASHINGTON, May 22.

President Eisenhower will be under pressure from Congress on several vital issues to be discussed at the Bermuda meeting, according to the American Associated Press. One of these issues is the apparent determination by Great Britain to back Communist China’s bid for a seat in the United Nations as part of the price for a settlement in Korea. Senator Alexander Wiley, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has joined a group of Republican senators publicly committed to opposing Communist China’s entry to the United Nations under any circumstances. “We cannot reward Communist gangsterism by admitting the Chinese Communist regime to the United Nations,” he said in a speech yesterday. “Nor should we yield in the slightest in our strong opposition to the forceful repatriation of prisoners of war in Korea.”

Senator Wiley suggested that President Eisenhower should take with him to the Big Three meeting representatives of both parties in Congress. He said that the presence of a Republican and Democratic leader as conference observers “might help to give Congress a better understanding of the problems faced by our Allies.” The Washington correspondent of the United Press said other items on the agenda would include: Western rearmament. Trade and foreign aid problems. Germany’s political and military future. x Britain’s disputes with Egypt and Persia over the Suez Canal and oil concessions. French troubles in North Africa and Indo-China. The danger to South-east Asia of the recent Communist attacks in Laos.

The correspondent said that by taking the initiative in calling the meeting, Mr Eisenhower had “scuttled Sir Winston Churchill’s seemingly hell-bent drive for a quick meeting with the Russians.”