Evening star., 1951-01-15
Red China's S Answer
Awaited 10 New U. N.
Cease-Fire Proposal
By the Associated Pres,

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United Nations diplomats pacec
the corridors today, waiting fol
Communist China's reply to theil
latest peace bid.
| If previous experience is any
criterion, their vigil promised tc
be long. The Communist Peiping
regime twice kept the U. N. on
tenterhooks for over a week be-
fore it rejected two previous ap-
peals. sf
| Some were optimistic this time
The new offer, adopted by the
f60-nation Political Committee
Saturday. gives the Chinese Reds
much the kind of a deal they have
been demanding.
Previous resolutions only asked
for cease-fire in Korea. The new
proposals offer the Communists,
after fighting is halted, political
conference on Far Eastern ques-
tions including Formosa's future
and Red China's demand for a
U. N. seat.
Considering Proposal.
Diplomatic advices received in
New Delhi from Peiping said the
Communists are carefully con-
sidering the new U. N. proposal
and consider it an advance or
anything yet put forward.
This information said Peiping's s
first reaction was that cease-fire
negotiations should be part OF
the political talks, rather than a
preliminary to them.
The new proposal was spark
plugged by India's Sir Bengal
N. Rau and supported by the
British Commonwealth countries
The United States also voted for
it, primarily. Delegate Warren r.
Austin said, to maintain the
united non-C Communist front and
to go on record as having made
every possible move for peace in
the Far East.
If the bid is spurned, the United
States plans to press for drastic
U. N. action against the Red
Chinese. A majority of dele
gates here have said that they
then would support the United
States move.
State Department Under Fire.
The State Department, however
already is under fire from its
critics for having given even re-
luctant support to the latest peace
plan. These critics echoed Ma
tionalist China's charges that the
offer is a sellout to the Reds.
If the proposed conference
with Britain. Russia, CommuniS,
China and the United States talk.
ing-comes about, observers pre-.
dict an American political explo.
sion.
The United States has main
tanned Nationalist China's right tc
both Formosa and the seat in the
U. N. Sources here refused tc
speculate whether there would be
popular American support for q
retreat from that policy in return
for peace in Korea.
They pointed out. however, thai
should Peiping accept the U. N
conference bid, any American re.
fusal to join the talks would
ALLEVIATE many countries, particu.
larly in Asia and the British
Commonwealth.
Senator Smith Disturbed.
In Washington, Senator Smith
of New Jersey. a top-rankine
Republican on the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, said he was
"gravely disturbed by the United
States agreement to the cease -firs
formula.
Senator Smith said in a state
ment that the provision to include
Communist China at the confer
ence table seems to mean blunt
ly that the U. N. has sacrificed
moral principle for expediency.'
How the U. N. can deal with
the defiant aggressor and nego-
tiate the possible reward of ag-
gression is beyond my comprehen-
sion," Senator Smith added.
He said the tissue of the very
survival of the U. N" is at stake
and outlined a program of un-
compromising opposition to this
(Red China's) fragrant and de-
flant Korean aggression" He SAID
the other U. N. members should
support such a program.
In the event they do not sup
port it. Senator Smith said, the
United States may be compelled
to re-examine it's whole relation
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