PERSECUTION ALLEGED
COMMUNISTS IN KOREA U.S.-SOVIET DEADLOCK (11.30 a.m.) MOSCOW, Aug. 24. M. Molotov, in a letter to the United States Secretary of State, Mr. G. Marshall, complained that the United States military authorities had subjected pcliticiil parties in Southern Korea to “persecution contrary to democratic principles.” The letter said: “The police raid the premises of such parties and organisations, arrest their leaders, and suppress tlieir newspapers.” The letter added that if the persecutions were not stopped immediately, the United States representatives on the joint commission in Korea should be reminded of. the understanding which the United States and the Soviet reached in April of this year. M- Molotov’s letter was a reply to Mr. Marshall’s note of August 12 complaining of the continued deadlock over Soviet-United States negotiations on Korea, and calling on the joint commission to report progress by August 21. M. Molotov said he had instructed the Soviet delegates to prepare a progress report.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22416, 25 August 1947, Page 5
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