WAR JITTERS IN SEOUL: TREK TO THE SOUTH
SEOUL, This Day (Rec. 1 p.m.). —The .Korean 'legislative system faced a complete breakdown today as panic-stricken deputies fled southward and left the National Assembly without a quorum..
At a meeting of the Assembly yes-, terday, only 65 out of 206 members were present. The Assembly has not been able to hold a formal meeting for four days because the necessary quorum of more than half the members—at least 104—has not been present. The Government is now faced with the choice of either making attendance compulsory or moving the Assembly further south. The jittery population of Seoul has not been slow to realise the implication of the Assembly’s continued inactivity. Many people, previously undecided whether or not to flee the capital, have now joined the thousands of refugees already on the road south. -
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1950, Page 5
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