U.S. Note To Russia On Korean Independence

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1947, Page 5

U.S. Note To Russia On Korean Independence

(Recd. 10.50 a.m.) ' WASHINGTON, August 29. The United States sent a new Note to Moscow calling for a four-Power conference of the United States, Britain and China to speed Korean independence. The Note said the present deadlock on the joint Russian-Ameri-can commission to arrange for a provisional Korean Government could not continue.

■ “The United States Government cannot in good conscience be a party to any such delay in the fulfilment of its commitments for Korean independence,” the Note says. The United States proposed that the four Powers adhering to' the Moscow agreement should meet to consider how that agreement may be speedily carried out.

. The Note said the contention -that Russia had a right to exclude some Korean political parties from participation in the decisions on Korea’s future was “contrary to the democratic . principle of freedom of opinion.” The Note pointed out that the

United States had been devoting the utmost effort for almost two years to implement the Moscow agreement on Korea and said the present stalemate made it abundantly clear that bilateral negotiations on the subject of consultation with the Korean political parties and organisations would only serve to delay implementation and defeat the announced purposes of bringing about early independence for Korea.

Copies of the American Note were sent to the ' British and Chinese Foreign Ministers with an invitation to attend a four-Power conference on Korea with Russia and the United Slates at Washington on Septembei’ 8.