CHINA’S SEAT AT U.N.

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28128, 17 November 1956, Page 11

CHINA’S SEAT AT U.N.

Fight Carried To Assembly

(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK. Nev. 15. The Soviet Union and India today carried their fight for Chinese Communist representation in the United Nations to the General Assembly. After some 90 minutes of debate and a fierce procedural wrangle between the Indian and American delegates the Assembly adjourned for a few hours.

Mr V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian Minister without Portfolio. who wanted the Assembly reconvened tomorrow, warned that when they met tonight he would move the adjournment “every time I feel sleepy.” The Assembly was faced with an American resolution, approved by the Steering Committee yesterday, that there should be no consideration at this session of any proposal to change China s representation, now in the hands of the Nationalists. The resolution also urged the Assembly not to include on its agenda a ? S?i?. ian entitled “Representation o L. Ch ’ n ® ln thc United Nations.” Earlier, in the absence of Mr Menon, Mr Arthur Lail brought India’s proposal before the Assembly today in the form of an amendment to the American resolution.

s “y ie ‘ Foreign Minister, Mr Dmitri Shepilov, declared that the Peking Government had been exercising effective power in China for more than seven years and was enjoying the boundless support and love of all the people." "China, is a great peace-loving power, he said. "She has on many occasions showed a sincere desire to lessen international tension. She has made a truly invaluable contribution to the consolidation of peace In the Far East and throughout the world " r- K . a ? ? n « r y speech. Mr Henry C ot .. Lo i sc ' of the United States, said Mr Shepilov was accusing his country of enslaving China at the very moment when Mr Shepilov’* “'“try was deporting "the young manhood of Hungary to Siberia in boxcars ”

"Surely this sets some kind of a record in infamous hypocrisy," ha exclaimed.

He wondered if the Soviet reference to the peaceful development by the Peking Government included the slaughter of millions of Chinese. Mr P. M. Crosthwaite, the British delegate, said that Chinese representation was one of the issues which would have to be settled before normal relations could be achieved in the Far East.

He announced, however, that he would support the American resolu* tion because Britain believed that the time was not ripe to debate the question of Chinese representation. U.S. Senator’s Attack

Senator William Know land. Republican leader in the Senate, tonight accused India of having apparently become the floor leader for the Soviet drive to bring Communist China into the United Nations. The Senator, who is a member of the United States delegation to the General Assembly, handed a strongly-worded statement to reporters during the debate on Chinese representation. He claimed that Communist China had violated the Korean armistice and was still in occupation of North Korea.

Senator Knowland said that those who had contributed nothing to the first collective defence force in Korea "should think twice before rewarding the aggressor when by so doing, they would declare that the United nations dead and the American dead have died in vain.” "Who will be next on the Communist time-table?” he asked. "To whom and to what organisation will they expect to turn?”