GRAVE ISSUE BEFORE SECURITY COUNCIL

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 November 1950, Page 5

GRAVE ISSUE BEFORE SECURITY COUNCIL

Intervention Of Communist China In Korea; Hope Is That It Is A Local Action

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (Ree. 6 pm).—There was no indication at Lake Success tonight of what action the United Nations Security Council will take when it meets in special session on Wednesday to consider, at the Unted States request, Chinese Communist intervention in Korea.

An American spokesman gave the impression that the United States did not wish to exaggerate the situation. The hope is growing in United Nations circles that the Communist move does not represent an all-out determined intervention in the Korean war. The Associated Press Washington correspondent says that America’s attitude toward the grave new crisis was pictured tonight as favouring a side-stepping of an immediate showdown over the intervention of Chinese Communists. Diplomatic informants

said the United States had begun consulting with other Governments on a proposed United Nations resolution to that effect. The informants added that the United States Government favours having the Security Council demand a halt in Chinese aid to the North Koreans but wants no branding of the Red Pekin regime as an aggressor at this uncertain stage. Simultaneously. State Department officials said there was no change in the attitude of July 1, when Chiang Kai-shek’s offer of 33.000 troops to fight in Korea was rejected on the grounds that they were needed for the defence of Formosa.