Evening star., 1951-08-14
Kaesong Par|eys
Snaggedo U.N.
Air, Sea Power:
Van Fleet Is Ready
To 'CIobber' Reds
If ToIks Collapse
By the Associated Press

MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. IA
Kaesong armistice talks Snagged
today on an argument over the
Importance of Allied air and naval
supremacy.
If cease-fire negotiations break
down, the United Nations ground
-~~~-~~
Allies PIones Strike Communist BuiIdup
Neor Pyonqyonq. Poee AZ
commander, Gen. James A. Van
Fleet, said his troops are ready to
"clobber" the Reds.
In Tokyo Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway, U. N. supreme COM
mander, said the Reds have been
steadily building up and are in a
materially better position to at
tack than they were when truce
talks started July 10.
Enemy 'in Bad Shape
Gen. Van Fleet, commander of
the 9th Army, commented:
The military feels we would
like to have the opportunity to
meet the Communists if they at
tack. 1t would be a real clobber.
Il don't know of a better way
to get it over faster.
The enemy is hurting. He is
in bad shape. He needs peace"
Gen. Van Fleet said "the arro-
gance of the Communists at the
KaeSong talks is making the men
of the 9th Army a little mad"
The generals opinion of the
ability of the 9th Army to meet
Red onslaught conceded with
views expressed by Gen. Ridgway,
when the top Allied commander
told about the Red buildup.
Gen. Ridgway said the U. N. po-
sition was not inflexible, but that
his troops must have a defenSible
position during a truce approx
mately along their present battle
line. He said the U. N. won't go
back to the 38th Parallel, where
the Reds want to set up buffer
zone.
Reds Firm in Demand.
At Kaesong, just before nego-
tiatorS adjourned until IL am.
tomorrow g pm. today EDIT
North Korean 1t. Gen. Nam II,
top Red envoy, wound up todays
2-hour- -and- minute session by
announcing the Red demand for a
truce on the old political boundary
line is unshakable.
It was the demilitariZed zone
deadlock which generated the ar
gument at Kaesong over U. N.
air and navy might.
Vice Admiral C. Turner JOY,
head of the U. N. delegation, told
the Reds that Allied planes and
warships "are prosecuting war
behind your front lines which is
not duplicated behind our lines. )"
A U. N. spokesman said this
was a reply to a one-hour and
13-minute attack by Gen. Nam
attempting to "diScredit the inde-
pendent effectiveness of air and
naval power which the U. N. COM
mand would relinquish in an ar
mistice."
In one. breath the North Korean
said they weren't doing much good
and in the next he said the Reds
would run U. N. troops out Of
Korea except for Allied planes
and warships.
Speech Termed Emotional
Gen. Nam said his speech was
a detailed analysis" The U. N.
spokesman said it was mostly an
emotional attack.
The spokesman, Brig. Gen. Will
liam P. Nuckols, who attended the
session, said Gen. Mans speech
was sprinkled with such words as
irresponsible" "beligerent," "a
busive," and "intolerable."
Gen. Nuckols said Admiral Joy
in one hour and six-minute re-
ply, emphasized air and naval
power in an effort to convince the
Reds of the reasonablessness of
the U. N. proposals for a de-
militarized zone along approx
mately the present battle lines.
Admiral Joy pointed out that the
U. N. would have to relinquiSh its
air and sea supremacy in the event
of an armistice. Therefore, he
said, U. N. ground forces would
have to be left in positions that
could be defended.
A U. N. communique said this
logical military reasoning was
without tangible results"
Gen. Nuckols said Gen. Nam