Evening star., 1953-09-26
More j. n. Fireworks
Likely as Vishinsky
Drafts Korea Reply
BY the ASsocicfed Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Sept. 26.-A new United States
Russian exchange was building
up today as the United Nations
General Assembly took a week.
end recess. The fireworks were
expected to explode next week
with the end of the policy
speeches that opened the cur
rent Assembly session.
Although the Soviet bloc al
ready has had its five-nation
say, RuSsia's Andrei Vishlnsky
was reported readying an over
all answer to questions raised by
more than 40 other members in
their opening statements on
Korean peace and other areas
of world tension. Mr.. Vishinsky
follows the practice of asking for
the floor at the end of every
debate-and always gets it.
This time, however, Henry
Cabot Lodge, chief United States
delegate, was reported planning
to follow him under the Assem-
bly's right of reply rule.
The verbal battle was expected
to break next Tuesday after the
nine nations still on the speak
er's list have had their say.
France Asks Peace Negotiations.
France, last of the Western
big powers to speak, came out
yesterday for high-level negotia-
tions with Russia and Red China
to end the Indo-China war.
Frances deputy foreign min
lister Maurice Schumann also
said France wanted India at the
Korean talks and favored con-
Sideration of the Indo-China
question during the conference.
Among speakers to be heard
Monday is India's V. K. Krishna
Menon. He is expected to re-
iterate charges by Indian Prime
Minister Nehru that the AS
sembly is ignoring Asian opin-
ion in dealing with Asia's prob
lens.
Mr.. Nehru also has strongly
criticized the United States for
opposing India's participation at
the Korean peace conference.
Wants to Release Guard.
Mr.. Menon has emphasized in
recent weeks that India is anx-
ious to get the scheduled peace
talks under way because it
doesn't want its 5,500-man pris-
oner repatriation guard tied up
indefinitely in Korea. He has
given no hint, however, whether
he will support Communist de-
mands that the peace conference
include Russia, India, Burma,
Pakistan and Indonesia as "neu-
trails" in what the Reds insist
should be a round table" con-
ference.
A United States spokesman
said American policy on the
course the parley should take
after it gets underWay-if it
doeS-has not yet been decided.
Commenting on reports that
United States Government Of
ficials were planning to give the
Communists a choice between
an independent Korea under
guarantee of neutrality and the
continued maintenance of United
States troops in South Korea.
the spokesman said this was
only one of a number of
ideas that had been discussed.
Concrete Proposals" Sought.
The New York Times quoted
Mr.. Vishinsky as saying that
the Soviet Unions attitude to-
ward a unified Korea under in
ternational guarantee of its
neutrality would depend upon
concrete proposals"
In a dispatch from the United
Nations, the Times said Mr..
Vishlnsky told an interviewer:
For instance, who would do
the guaranteeing? What forms
would the guarantees take?"
The United States and it's Is
Korean allies are still waiting
for Communist China to reply to
an offer for a meeting to arrange
the peace conference site and
date. The October % deadline
set by the Korean armistice is
considered unlikely but a mid
November date was now thought
possible.
The offer went out last Mon
day, along with suggestion that
the conference itself could talk
about expanding its membership
to a round table" after it got
under way.
It was understood, however,
that the United States would
continue to oppose inclusion of
So-called "neutrals" but would
agree to their participation in
any Far East conference that
might follow a successful Korean