Evening star., 1950-11-30
Peiping's Mockery

II words are to be taken at face value, then
there seems no reason whatever to hope that the
Chinese Communists have any desire for
peaceful and honorable settlement of the grave
world crisis they have created by their criminal
act Of massive aggression against the United
Nations in North Korea For WI Hsiu- -chuan-
the chief of their representatives now appearing
before the Security Council-has delivered to the
Council speech that amounts to a kind of
ultimatum to the U. N. either to satisfy Red
China'S demands or face the prospect of having
Red China continue to wage war against 1t.
The full text of Wus speech must be read
by anybody who wishes to taste the real flavor
OF it-a very bad flavor. In fact. in terms Of its
insolence its butchery of the truth its vlication
Of the United States, its conversion of historical
realities into the opposites of themselves, its
threatening tone, its incendiary quality, and its
general contempt for the decent opinions and
common sense of free mankind it seems in some
ways to exceed even the most vicious outpouring
to date Of the most intemperate Of Moscows
propagandists. OF course, it faithfully echoes the
Kremlin, but it does so with extra Chinese Com
munist fiourishes that must make Mr. Vishinsky
himself just little bit envious.
Thus with appalling brazenness, as if So of
the so members of the U. NJ had never voted
for action to put down the aggression of the
North Korean Reds, the WI harangue-devoted
largely to a violently untruthful attack on
American policy regarding Formosa-reviles the
United States as the "aggressor' in Korea as an
old and brutal enemy of China, and hot-bed
of power-mad "imperalsts" intent upon domi-
mating and enslaving all of Asia and indeed the
whole world Then, after thousands of words
enlarging upon this theme and after demanding
that the United Nations Immediately GUST the
Chinese Nationalists and seat Peiping as men,
on1vy %I,n& 80
of Communist China's volunteers" will keep on
fighting in the Korean battle area unless the
U. N. agrees to the following terms:
(D That the Security Council openly
condemn" and apply "severe sanctions" against
the United States for criminal acts of armed
aggression" on Formosa and "armed interven-
ton" in Korea. (2) That the Council move at
once to bring about the complete withdrawal Of
American forces of armed aggression" from
FormoSa, where actually our Government is
represented by only about as many individuals as
are attached to the Soviet Embassy here in
Washington. And 60 that the Council adopt
measures to make the armed forces of the
United States and all other countries" get out of
Korea and let the Southern and Northern
Koreans settle their domestic affairs themselves.
1t is a measure of the dark fantasy of these
times that the United Nations-in whose name
and for whose principles our American and allied
troops have been fighting and dying in Korea
has had to listen to all this from the mouthpiece
of a regime that is flagrantly guilty of black
crime against the U. N. Here is mockery of
monumental proportions ns-mockery of the free
worlds intelligence and of the free worlds desire
for peace. Looked at in any light, Wus speech
since it actually is the Kremlin's-strongly sug-
gests that Moscow and puppet Peiping, far from
wanting to keep the present hostilities from
spreading may not be at all averse to precipitat-
ing general war. The outlook for an honorable
political settlement could hardly seem bleaker.