Evening star., 1952-11-28
u. n. toAdopt
India POW Plan
Despite Reds
Overwhelming Vote
Seen, With Support
Of U. S. Promised
By the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y, Nov.
28-The United Nations pushed
toward a vote today on India's
Communist-condemneed plan for
ending the Korean war. With
United States support pledged, its
adoption in the face of bitter So
Wet bloc opposition was expected
by an overwhelming majority.
Despite the rejection by Peip-
ing, Moscow and Pyongyang, the
Indian compromise prisoner of
war resolution was being showed
through by the non-Communist
nations to place responsibility for
throwing down a Korean peace
Squarely on the Reds.
India's V. K. Krishna Menon,
who drafted and introduced the
resolution. was to give his final
arguments-apparently in another
attempt to overcome the Com
munist objections - before the
General Assembly'S Political Com
mittee this afternoon.
Committee Chairman Joao Car
los Muniz of Brazil told the dele
gates yesterday he was eager to
have a vote on the Indian resolu-
ton during today's session as
soon as Mr.. Menon speaks.
U. S. Accepts Changes.
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son let it be known through a
spokesman yesterday that the
United States delegation has &C
cepted the changes Mr.. Menon
has made in his resolution spelling
out in more detail the final des-
tination of prisoners who resist
repatriation to their Red-ruled
homelandS.
The Americans had demanded
these changes before supporting
the Indian plan. AS amended,
1t calls for a repatriation COM
mission to take charge of all pris-
oners. and for the U. N. to take
over the resettling of all POWs
not repatriated within five months
after a Korean truce. United
States support and that of the
20 allies who co-sponsored an
American resolution on Korea as
sured the passage of the Indian
plan by a wide margin.
An American spokesman said
his delegation would favor a
Danish amendment shortening
the period to four months but
would not press for it. Other
amendments on details and me-
chanics were expected to get the
support of many nations in the
committee.
Reds Accused of Trickery.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky also has introduced
amendments to the Indian reso-
luton. Western delegates charged
yesterday they only transformed
it into RuSsia'S own demand that
all prisoners must be forced to
go home whether they want to
or not.
The debate became increasingly
vitriolic yesterday when France,
Australia, Canada and New zea-
land accused the Russians of
wishing to prolong the war in
Korea and charging that Mr..
Vishinsky had tried to trick the
Assembly into perverting the sense
Of the Indian resolution.
Mr.. Vishinsky scathingly replied
that these delegates, by attacking
him personally. had taken the
position of 'lap dogs barking at
an elephant"
He and his allied delegates from
the Ukraine and White Russia
held out that the Russian resolu-
ton, calling for an immediate
cease-fire followed by a political
conference to settle the POW and
all other Korean questions, was
the only way to peace in that
battle-scarred peninsula.
Mr.. Vishinsky heaped more
scorn on the Indian resolution,
saying it was rotten" and would
not solve the Korean problem.