CONTROL IN KOREA

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21850, 22 October 1945, Page 4

CONTROL IN KOREA

U.S. DISSATISFIED

DIVISION WITH SOVIET

KOREAN LEADER’S CLAIM (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. Mr. John Vincent, director of the State Department’s of Far Eastern Affairs, said that at present the division in Korea between Russian and American troops is manifestly unsatisfactory. He proposed the establishment of an international trusteeship of the Allies principally interested until the Koreans are ready to assume the administration. “Our policy is to co-operate with China and Russia for stability in the Far East,” he added, “but we will not co-operate with either in a policy antagonistic to the other. The United States recognises that Russia has important interest in the Far East but she expects Russia to recognise that the United States also has important interests there Divided Control Opposed Dr. Syngman Rhee, the former President of the Korean Provisional Government, who returned to Seoul after 33 years in exile in the United States, voiced publicly for the first time the Koreans’ determination to resist the country’s present division into Russian and American zones. Dr. Rhee, addressing dO.OOO Koreans, during a welcome celebration for the American troops, said “We remained unconqueiv J and undivided under Japanese oppression. We will fight to remain so at the cost of our very lives. The Allies may as well know this. “Now, are we going to l ave the whole of our country back or shall we remain divided'' This question is being asked me day and night. It will get the answer if we co-operate with each other and also the United States forces. I hope before very long that we will show the world the United States Government and the American Army that we are quite able to run our own affairs.” Dr. Rhee snoke spontaneously. Lieutenant-General John Hodge, commander of the American forces, paid a high tribute to Dr. Rhee’s work. Dr. Rhee welcomed the Americans as liberators to whom Korea would be for ever indebted. General MacArthur announced that all Japanese military forces in Korea will be withdrawn by November 1. The repatriation of 470,000 Japanese civilians will depend on shipping.