CHINESE INTERVENTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27567, 8 December 1950, Page 7

CHINESE INTERVENTION

Debate By Assembly Supported NEW YORK, Dec. 6. Fifty-one member nations decided today that the General Assembly should debate the Chinese Communist intervention in Korea. The matter will be sent to the main Political Committee for debate. Only the Soviet group of five voted against the adoption of the item. India, Indonesia, Afghanistan, and Burma abstained. It was the first reference in the General Assembly to the appeal issued last night by 13 Asian and Middle Eastern nations calling for a guarantee that the Chinese Communists would not push southward across the thirtyeighth parallel in pursuit of the retreating United Nations troops. Opposing the question of Chinese Communist intervention in Korea being put on the agenda for a full-dress debate, the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Vyshinsky said: “The Chinese People’s Government is anxious for a peaceful settlement of the Korean question. This is proved by various proposals made by that Government. All their statements contained warm appeals for a settlement of the Korean question by peaceful means and the withdrawal of American forces from Korea—which would be tantamount to an end of the Korean war.” Stating that the United Nations had not answered the Chinese Communists’ appeals, Mr Vyshinsky continued: “Having crossed the thirty-eighth parallel the American forces acted with the approval among others, of certain Powers who now have appealed for the Chinese People’s Government to halt at the parallel. At that time the Powers which have not made this appeal supported General MacArthur’s march northward. Now they make appeals for a halt at the thirty-eighth parallel. Mr Vyshinsky repeated the Communist contention .that Peking had not ordered its army into Korea and that only Chinese volunteers were fighting. ' He added: “General MacArthur, the evil genius of our days, speaks of some Communist armed forces in Korea, but even the notorious report of General MacArthur, that war maniac, does not contain a single word about the Chinese People’s Government." Mr Warren Austin, the chief United States delegate, confined his statement to a plea for putting on the agenda “ one of the greatest questions faced by the United Nations,” which, he said, may involve the whole future of the United Nations and the peace of the world.