TEXTILE NEEDS OF JAPAN

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27073, 23 June 1953, Page 9

TEXTILE NEEDS OF JAPAN

SYNTHETIC OUTPUT TO BE BOOSTED P? 1 ’ LONDON. June 22. has launched a five-year plan «h.i ncrease production of synthetic ch»S' 2? . order to save on P ur ‘ of Australian wool and United says the Tok J° corres- ? dent of the Financial Times.”

The United Nations commander had flown from Tokyo to head the negotiations about the released prisoners °£ wa £ S e drived in Seoul soon after the South Korean Prime Minister, Mr Too Chin Paik, flew in from Washington and London. . Mr Paik drove to Dr. Rhee’s home ln V? e^J at . e^y after the landing. Mr Paik, who attended Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation, was away during the South Korean crisis over the Alli" prisoner-of-war agreement with the Communists and Dr. Rhee’s subsequent release of non-Communist North Koreans.

General Clark told correspondents at the airport that he had received a letter from Dr. Rhee this morning, but he refused to disclose its contents. “It’s up to President Rhee to release it. he said. Observers speculated that the letter might be a copy of the one Dr. Rhee was reported to be sending President Eisenhower.

Reports said that this threatened that South Korea would quit the United Nations Command and .“go it alone*’ if ?» truce is signed. assurance Sought The United Press says that General Clark was to demand an assurance from Dr. Rhee whether South Korean troops were still part of the United Nations Command. He was to ask Dr. Rhee to declare whether South Korean troops would accept orders from the United Nations Command, or whether the troops would no longer ,be bound by the South Korean President’s agreement with the Allies. The United States Air Force announced in Tokyo today that it used nearly all its available fleet of transport planes yesterday to carry paratroopers of the 187th Regimental Combat Team from Japan to Korea. It is believed that the airlift was ordered to provide American guards at prisoner-of-war camps. All leave trips between Korea and Japan were stopped to allow the airlift to take place.

The planes carried fully-armed paratroopers, their ammunition and supplies, and many of their vehicles. The transports were taking off and landing every two minutes at the terminal airfield. South Korean View

The South Korean Foreign Minister, Mr Pyun Yung Tai, said today that South Korea gave the United Nations. Command its troops and could take them back if it wanted to at any time.

His statement emphasised that the Rhee Government was considering the withdrawing of the Republic of Korea

Army from the United Nations Command, said the American Associated Press. Mr Pyun said there would be no further releases of anti-Communist Korean prisoners if the United Nations Command guaranteed that no Indian troops or “Communist brain washers” would come to Korea. Under the already signed agreement on prisoners of war in ( the final armistice draft, a neutral commission comprising India, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czechoslovakia would supervise prisoners refusing to go home. India would supply the guard troops. In Washington it was reported that the United States Secretary of State (Mr Dulles) was drafting a special message to Dr. Rhee for delivery to the Korean Government by the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr Walter Robertson.