UNITING AND TREEING KOREABEVIN IN FAVOUR OF CROSSING THE 38th PARALLEL

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 September 1950, Page 5

UNITING AND TREEING KOREA—BEVIN IN FAVOUR OF CROSSING THE 38th PARALLEL

NEW YORK, September 29 (Rec 11.10 a.m.).—The British Foreign Minister, Mr Ernest Bevin, said today that he favoured the United Nations forces crossing the 38th Parallel in Korea. Mr Bevin made the statement aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth in which he left for London after attending the Foreign Ministers conference in New York and the General Assembly at Lake Success.

“If you proceed to deal with Korea as Korea and if you want a united, free Korea, the 28th Parallel almost automatically disappears,” Mr Beyin said. He thought the Korean situation was “evolving”. He added: “Everybody wants to keep his head now. The time has come to have a united Korea —elections and all the rest of it. “The more frontiers you get rid of,

the bettei’ it is. There should be no artificial perpetuation of the division between the North Koreans and the South Koreans. They are all Koreans.” Mr Bevin prdised the United Nations decision for prompt counter-ac-tion when the North Korean aggression began. He said it was a decision “which in our wildest dreams no one would have believed possible a few years ago.”