Evening star., 1950-11-10
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to pour thousands of troops across the Yalu
River against our American and allied United
Nations forces in Korea, there is every reason
why todays meeting of the Security Council
should deal with the situation as matter of
utmost urgency. At the moment there is still
lull in the fighting on the ground, but all signs
indicate that this may soon end in way that
could set off a large-scale war threatening the
peace of the entire world.
The only thing the Council has done up to
is to Invite" Peiping to send representatives
to Lake Success to be present during discussion
of General MacArthurs report on the nature
and scope of Red China's lawless intervention
an intervention involving the dispatch of no
fewer than 10000 Communist troops to the North
Korean battle area with an equal number
= thought to be on the way and with possibly
100000 more massed in Manchuria as reinforce
ments that Mao Tse-tung can throw in almost
at will against the U. ~
In such circumstances, and especially in view
of increasing doubts that Mao intends to send
any representatives to Lake Success at this time.
the Security Council must at least take prompt
action on the resolution proposed by the United
States. Mildly phrased in an effort to deal as
reasonably as possible with Peiping, the resolu-
tion-n adopted-would call upon the Chinese
Communists to withdraw give them additional
specific assurances that the U. MS forces have
no aggressive designs whatever but seek merely
to establish peaceful, democratic and unified
Korea, and offer to work out fair settlements
of any frontier problems bearing upon either
Manchuria or Soviet Siberia.
So Jacob A. Malik's words and demeanor indicate
that this resolution is likely to be subjected to
Russias veto. If so, then the General Assembly.
in line with its new powers will have to cope
70 T1r,ito from
paralysis in the Council. After that, assuming
that the Assembly takes affirmative action and
that Peiping continues with its war against the
u. NJ action will have to be taken to transmit
to General Macarthur new instructions as to
what should be done-miltarily and otherwise
to cope with situation that might well become
critical.
At present as the u MS supreme commander,
General Macarthur is under orders to confine
his operations to Korea. But II the Chinese
Communists, instead of withdrawing, keep on
pouring across the Yalu from Manchuria, 1t may
quickly become imperative for our American and
allied forces to strike heavily and without letup
at China's supply sources and its Manchurian
centers of strength. In that case-since Mao
has a military alliance with the Kremlin-the
danger Of an all-out war viii be very grave, but
that will not be the fault of the United Nations.
Actually, this situation can be controlled If
Peping and Moscow want to control it. The
crime will be on their hands If they Illustrate
the efforts of the United Nations to keep the
war from spreading That is the pressing task
now before the Council, but we ought not to
delude ourselves about the u. Ms ability to
handle it successfully if the Kremlin and its
Chinese puppet regime have set their minds
against peaceful solution. There can be no
such solution If international communism is
against it. That is the big and terrible "if" of
the moment.