Milford chronicle., 1950-12-22
U.N Should Brand
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upon the Chinese Communists to get out of Korea
spotlights the slow and hestant way in which the
U.N. has dealt with this threat to world peace.
1t is more than threat to world peace. 1t is q
threat of complete failure of the United Nations as
organization and an idea putting the world back
many years in its search for sensible peaceable
way of ordering affairs among nations.
Yet with such tremendous issues at stake, the
United Nations has tried to keep up the pretense
that aggression by Chinese Communists is different
from aggression by North Korean Communists, and
that it would be unwise to do anything that might
annoy the Red Government of Mao Tze-tung.
The wshful theory that Mao, or his bosses. in
Moscow, could be made to see reason by kid glove
handling in the U.N. should have been abandoned
weeks ago. Certainly, now that Soviet delegate
Andrei Vishinslzy has blasted the latest proposal
of 13 Asiatic nations for halt at the 38t Parallel
the delegates from the free nations ought TO con-
clude that there's nothing to be gained by refusing
to face the fact of Chinese Red aggression.
Even with upward of half-a-million Chinese
troops in Northern Korea, and more pouring across
the Manchurian border VishinsIy sticks to the fam
tastic lie that the armed forces of Communist China
are not fighting on the side of North Korea.
That shows what Russia and her stooges have
been trying to do in the U.N BY dealing in lies so
stupendous as to defy all reason, they have elimi-
mated any chance that reasonable compromise
could be reached.
1t is fact that the Chinese Communist troops 3
have been fighting in Korea for more than a month.
They have not been fighting simply against the
United States, they put it, but have been oppos-
ing United Nations Army acting under United
Nations orders.
But it was not until last week that the Security
Council got around to voting on resolution asking
them to get out of Korea and assuring them, at the
same time, that their own legitimate interests would
be safeguarded 1t was obvious from the start that
Russia would veto this move
The delay in pressing for Security Council action
was bad enough. 1t was worse that time was lost in
presenting the same resolution to the General As
sembly, where the veto cannot block it. But worst
of all is the REFUSAL even now, to name the Chinese
COMMUNISTS as aggressors, and to demand firmly
that they get out.
No realistic person expects the Reds to obey any
U.N. mandate that they don't like A strong resolu-
ton from the General Assembly at this late stage
probably would have little effect on the fighting III
Korea.
But the U.N. has to maintain the principles it
stood up for SO courageously at the beginning of the
Korean war; It could survive military defeat in
Korea, if that should come, but it could never sur
vive a compromise of the very principles on which
the world organization was founded
The 81 nat voted recently to take up
the questic nese intervention know that It
is deliberate naked aggression They know that
the Chinese Reds and their Russian hackers are
defyng the will of majority of the nations of the
world They know too, that there will never be any
collective security if the free nations refuse TO take
stand on the principles that have brought them
together
tits time the members of the U. N recognized that
the fate of the world organization and its hopes for
the future depend on how it meets the question of
the Chinese in Korea. At least there should be no
more delay in branding the Chinese Communists
as aggressors, and telling them to get out (ro The
Philadelphia Inqurer)