Evening star., 1948-11-28

visional government to operate en-
tirely within the area south Of thu
3Sth parallel, providing no immedi'
ate decision as to ultimate SOW
ereignty for all Korea until q gen.
eral settlement with the Soviets car
be reached. To appeasing members
Of U. N. this action will have Ger.
tain appeal. For example, 1t viii
be said that this offers q method
of preventing the permanent divi.
sion of Korea. however, such q
solution repudiates specifically the
authority Of the United Nations
which called explicitly for the estab-
liShment of q sovereign national
government. Thus, it would legiti'
matize the unilateral refusal Of the
Soviet government to abide by the
decision of the United Nations
Further, any such proposal violates
goth century concepts of the right OF
self determination and would put
iany such provisional government in
the position of having tenuous
authority.
3. Appointment Of United Ma
tions mediation committee, not un-
like those operating precariously in
Palestine and Indonesia, to reconcile
differences in the two parts OF
Korea. No real mediation would be
possible as the protagonist in the
north in effect would be the Soviet
Union as 1t has been since the
initial occupation Of Korea.
Soviet Also to Bid
4. Request by the United Nations
that all occupation troops, both
north and south, be withdrawn i'm
mediately 30 that the Korean peo-
pie may be left to settle their own
affairs in their own way. Argument
rests on the principle that with
drawal Of occupation troops from
free and neutral territories is essen
tial regardless Of the realistic pos
sibility that it would result in chaos
and destroy the very freedom to
operate which is the basis Of this
concept and principle.
S. Approval by the United Nations
of the Democratic Peoples Repub-
lie" organized unilaterally by Russia
in North Korea as . puppet gov
ernment.
The last proposal will almost cer-
tainly be the first advanced by the
Soviet bloc. 1t will receive scant
attention, but will be the first Ibid
price" Of the auction which the
Soviets will endeavor to create over
the fate of Korea.
ANY evslustion Of the proposal
that troops be withdrawn at once
must recognize the failure of the
Americans in South Korea to en-
courage or permit the development
of any substantial military force
until very recently. The small con-
stabulary which was developed was
in the nature of 9 police force for
civil security A Communist army
of an estimated 100000, well trained
and armed. established In North
Korea by the Russians, negates the
concept that Russian and American
troop withdrawal would do anything
but victimize South Korea.
Solid Grounds Prepared
ANY consideration of the PROPOSE
tion Of forming q U. N. mediation
committee would be unrealistic in
the extreme and would, by indirec-
ton. give official recognition to the
puppet regime in North Korea.
Assuming that the debate on the
Korean question brings forth nc
different hiStorionicS than hereto
fore INDUCED in by the Soviet dele
CATION, lit is probable that the re-
suit will be the full recognition OF
the republic of Korea.
1t is expected, as q result Of re-
cent reports from Paris, that the
delegates of the republic of Korea
will ask approval Of its sovereign
and independent status primarily
on the following grounds:
1. The sovereign status of Korea
is an inherent and 'inalienable fact,
established by the homogeneous and
unified existence of the country
substantially within its present
borders during a historic period OF
some 1000 years.
2. The re-establishment of Ko-
rea's ancient sovereignty has
been solemnly pledged by the great
powers in the Cairo declaration, In
the Potsdam Conference and in
the Moscow Conference OF Decem-
ber, 1945.
3. The Republic Of Korea has
been established completely in ac-
cordance with the procedure voted
by the United Nations, insofar as
it was possible in view of Russia s
refusal to permit the participation
of North Korea.
Few Bulwarks Left
OF course, 1t is too late to save
China from the agonies of partial
conquest. 1t is not too late for
the people Of the United States
to accept the lesson which has
been demonstrated at such cost
to guard remaining footholds in the
Far East without which our total
existence ultimately will be threat
ened-certainly as a free nation
Largely by fortunate chance
rather than wisdom demonstrated
Western, land especially United
States. craftsmanship has been given
another chance in Korea and there
has been some recovery from ths
previous policy Of appeasement.