MR. FRASER LEADS AN ATTACK IN U.N.O. ON RUSSIA IN KOREA

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 December 1948, Page 5

MR. FRASER LEADS AN ATTACK IN U.N.O. ON RUSSIA IN KOREA

(N.Z.P.A.—Reuter- copyright) PARIS, Dec. 6.—Russia was challenged heatedly in the United Nations today to show that Soviet-occupied Northern Korea has a free Government. Mr. Fraser (Prime Minister of New Zealand) .ed the attack on the Rus- ! sian-sponsored regime, which shut out United Nations observers when they tried to supervise elections there earlier this year. Observers were admitted to American-occupied Southern KoreaMr. Fraser told the political committee that the Russian bloc attacks on the methods used in the American zone were “claptrap.” Thumping the committee table, Mr. Fraser said: “If there is a free Government in North Korea, produce it.” He reca led that the United Nations commission was barred from entering Soviet-occupied Northern Korea to supervise the elections. He called upon the Russians to show that the Northern Korean Government was a democratic Government and not an autocratic Government or a dictatorI ship. | Mr. Manuilsky. of the Soviet UkI raine, and Mr. K. V. Kisselev. of ■ White Russia, declared that the | Southern Korea elections were illegal ’ and held under a wave of terror. PROOF WANTED 1 Mr. Fraser replied: “It is no use giving flambuoyant speeches. There is not one scrap of evidence. What we want is proof. The United States cannot be expected to lie down in Southern Korea and take it. Why attack Southern Korea? Why attack the United States?” Mr. Fraser asked the Russian group to tell who saw the elections in Northern Korea and who observed them. “Who knows whether they were not puppets puiled by a string?” he said. He was most concerned over whether the Government of Northern Korea would accept United Nations decisions or treat them with contempt. If the United Nations agreed to the practice of frustration of its decisions, it had better get gut of business.