Evening star., 1952-12-17
Red Chino's Reply

10 the surprise OF NOBODY, communist CHINA
speaking through Foreign Minister Chou En-lai
has now formally rejected the resolution
adopted on December by the General Assembly
of the United Nations. The rejection adds up to
nothing but long -winded echo of the Kremlins
recent harangues to the U. N. on the same sub
ject, which is another way of saying that it is
merely crude mixture of guttersnpe vitupera-
tion and monumental lies
To appreciate this, one has only to keep in
mind just what the ASSembly's resolution is. It
Is a mot .ified version of the prisoner -of-war
proposal introduced some weeks ago by India
with the tacit encouragement of the Chinese
Reds-in an effort to break the Korean truce
deadlock It's main feature is that it recognizes,
as matter of international law and international
morals that there should be no forcible repatria-
ton of the many thousands of captives who have
told the United Nations Command that they are
desperately afraid of being handed back to their
Communist masters and that they will violently
resist any effort to return them
Drafted in accord with the dictates OF COM
mon decency and simple humanitarianism and
with the earnest hope OF bringing about an
armstice, this peace promoting formula reflects
the sentiment of almost the entire membership
of the U. N. Adopted by the overwhelming vote
of 54 to 5, it has been opposed only by the Soviet
Union and its four StoogeS in the General
Assembly. Yet, despite the fact that it has thus
won near unanimous international backing, the
Chinese Communists having shown signs
of favoring it in the beginning-have turned 1t
down. In doing so, moreover, they have quite
obviously played the part of puppets, for the
Kremlin-through Foreign Minister Vishinsky-
announced Peiping's decision even before Peiping
itself was heard from. And the same holds true,
of course, for the tatterdemalion Red regime of
North Korea. Never has there been more abject
display of satellite subservience to Moscow.
Further, it is difficult to recall any past
Communist statement more brazen than Red
China's reply to the U. N. Contemptuous,
mendacouS full of vulgar insults, it is reply
that repeatedly describes the Assemblys resolu-
ton as "illegal"-"illegal" even though adopted
by 54-to-5 vote, with the Soviet bloc alone
dissenting. Chou En-lai has been lavish with
his lies and vitriol. He has not heSitated to
speak Of our country as sinking to the lowest
depths of moral depravity" And the United
Nations-because virtually the whole Of 1t has
supported India's modified truce proposal-has
been lambasted by him for degenerate actions"
and for increasingly becoming tool OF the
ruling clique of the United States in its prepara-
ton for war and for the expansion of aggression"
Clearly enough, as long as such an attitude
prevails in Peiping-or as long as Moscow is
determined to make it prevail there-the truce
deadlock will remain unbreakabe and further
negotiations will be a complete waste of time.
In any case, it is hard to see how our Govern
ment, or the U. N. as whole, can take position
basically different from the one just outlined by
the State Department that there can
be no compromise on the prisoner issue and that
II armiStice talks are to be resumed at Panmun-