“ENEMY WANTED TRUCE”
OFFICIAL VIEW IN WASHINGTON
l (Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 21. s Officials in Washington now seriously ’ believe that the Communists wanted a ' truce in Korea says the American Associated Press The belief is based on the attitude of the Communist negotiators at Friday's truce meeting in Panmunjon. fa spite of the release of the North Korean anti-Communist prisoners by the South Koreans the Communists have apparently not decided to break oft negotiations or reopen the sections of the armistice pact already agreed on. United States officials regard as reasonable the two Communist demands that the prisoners should be recaptured and that the United Nations command should give a firm assurance that the South Korean Government and Army would abide by the truce. But the same officials believe it would be an altogether different matter to meet the Communist demands. It is considered virtually impossible that aB the prisoners could be caught 1 and at the same time the United Nations Command could not at this I time guarantee. South Korea’s behav- ] iour on any point. Mr Walter Robertson, the Assistant . Secretary of for Far Eastern i Affairs. wiU leave for Seoul today or tomorrow in a new attempt to win the 1 co-operation of Dr. Syngman Rhee. i
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27072, 22 June 1953, Page 9
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