Evening star., 1952-12-22


February "a, after the Inaugural
ton of President-elect Eisenhower.
Red-eyed after a tense all-night
debate, Assembly delegates voted
IS mays" to S Soviet bloc yeas"
against the Russian proposal.
Ten members of the Arab-Isian
bloc abStained. The other three
in that group -Iraq, Lebanon
and Thailand-voted against the
Soviet move.
The Soviet bloc gained no sup
port outside of it's own tight little
group for the resolution, which
was denounced by United States
Delegate Ernest A. Gross, as a
"sickening" and shabby midnight
propaganda stunt"
Kremlin Cover Charged.
Mr.. Gross. replying to charges
launched at midnight Saturday by
Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromy-
ko, said the riot on December IA
in which 81 persons were killed
was engineered to help the Krem-
lin cover up the fact that 1.-The ag-
gressors and their sponsors have
rejected peace in Korea" He said
the guards fired at the rioting
Reds to Quell them and to avoid
greater casualties.
Mr.. Gross referred to the blunt
rejection by the Communists of
the Indian peace plan approved
by the General Assembly Deem
ber 3 by a vote of 54 to (Soviet
bloc) with Nationalist China alb
staining.
"The Soviet government" Mr..
Gross said, may now recognize
the mistake it made in so brutally
rejecting the Indian resolution for
peace in Korea and in so con-
temptuously fiouting the will of
the United Nations.
There is a lesson to be drawn
from this midnight maneuver by
the Soviet government. 1t is proof
that when members of the United
Nations unite on a moral issue
and rally from all corners of the
earth around the cause of peace
and defense of the charter-the
enemies of peace are driven into
corners of desperation. We do
not believe that our unity can be
broken or undermined by acts of
lying desperation such as those
we have witnessed here"
Indignantly Repudiated.
Selwyn Lloyd. British Minister
Of State: Henri Hoppenot. France;
Selim Sarper. Turkey; Alexis KY
rou, Greece; David johnson,
Canada, and Leslie K. Munro,
New zealand-whose countries
have troops fighting in Korea
assured Mr.. Gross they were
standing with him in indignant
reputation of the Soviet tactics
and allegations. Mr.. Lloyd said
1t lis matter of bitter regret OH
the eve OF Christmas to have this
poisonous propaganda injected
here" He expressed confidence in
the q. N. command in Korea.
Mr.. Gromyko, looking natty in
q blue suit. also linked the riots
with the U. N. adoption of the
Indian Korean plan. He said the
United States wanted to perpetu-
ate the Korean war and the
Indian resolution was part of that
scheme.
Mr.. Gromyko said the Interna-
tional Red Cross report on last
springs prison outbreak at Koje
Island criticized the United States
for using weapons against rioting
prisoners. He said use of force
against the prisoners was part of
an American scheme to coerce
prisoners into saying they did not
want to go home. Those who re-
fused, he added, were brutalized.
Mr.. Gromyko charged that in
May, 1851, the United States
shipped 400 Chinese and North
Korean prisoners to the United
States to serve as guinea pigs in
atom experiments; that on May
10, 1852, American hangmen
gouged out the eyes of 18 prison.
ers. and that on May 80, 1852, the
United States burned 800 prison.
ers alive in f1ame-thrower expert
ments.
Mr.. Lloyd burst out laughing at
these claims and American Dele
gate Philip Jessup and Mr.. Gross
Joined him.
Looking at the British, Mr..
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