Evening star., 1953-12-12
u. 5. Breaks Off
Korean Talks
|0ver Insults
Dean Walks Out, Will
Not Return Unless
Reds Directly Ask
BY the Assoeioted Pres,

PANMUNJOM. Dec. IA
United States Envoy Arthur
Dean abruptly broke off nego-
tiations to set up a Korean peace
conference today and angrily
walked out in the midst of q
marathon Communist harrangue.
Mr.. Dean said the final straw
was a charge that the United
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States connived with South
Korea in the release of $1,000
anti-Red Korean war prisoners
from allied stockades last June.
Mr.. Dean said he treated the
Communist charge "as a reason
to break off the talks.
II said they had accused my
Government of perfidy and that
unless it was withdrawn I would
interpret it as a motion on their
side to indefinitely recess" the
United States envoy told news
men.
Reds Must Retract.
He emphasized that only di-
rect request from the Com
munists, coupled with a full re-
traction of the charge, could get
the seven-weeks-old preliminary
peace negotiations underway
again.
Asked If he was going to WASH
ington Mr.. Dean replied:
Il don't know"
A spokesman said Mr.. Dean
would hold a press conference
in Seoul at 9 o'clock Sunday
morning q pm, EST. Saturday,.
1t was reported yesterday that
the spokesman for II nations
which fought in Korea probably
would return to the United
States before Christmas, leaving
the stalemated negotiations in
charge of his chief assistant.
Qn Washington, a State
Department spokesman said
there would be no comment
before cabled reports of the
break-off had reached the
capital and officials had a
chance to study them.)
Session Longest of Series.
Mr.. Deans walkout ended q
5-hour 45-minute session, the
longest since the talks began
October 26.
The Reds became "ruder and
ruder, more and more insulting
and more arrogant" as the long
session wore on, Mr.. Dean said.
ut was evident" he added,
that they wanted to become so
rude and SO arrogant as to force
discontinuance of the talks"
Mr.. Dean said the Communists
may have wanted to break off
the negotiations because they
want Ito escape their RESPONSE
bility under the armistice agree
ment for a unified Korea"
1T is obvious that they are
now doing everything they can
to prevent the unif1cation Of
Korea" he added.
Shortly after the record session
opened Mr.. Dean accused the
Communists of holding American
and South Korean war prisoners
as slave laborers in China and
Manchuria.
He said POWs who have es-
capped from the Reds have fur
nished proof that this is true.
Agreement With Rhee.
Mr.. Dean told newsmen he
and President Syngman Rhee Of
South Korea reached an agree
ment in talks yesterday on a
course for the preliminary peace
negotiations, He said he re-
viewed the progress of the talks
during the past week and "Rhee
and 1 saw completely eye to eye
on the preliminary talks"
Mr.. Dean added, however,
that Mr.. Rhee reserved some
doubts about inviting neutral
nations to the conference.
South Korean Foreign Min
lister Pyun Yung Tai said the
Communists deliberately pro.
voked the breakoff to stall the
preliminary peace talks.
Mr.. Pyun said the Reds want
to blame the Allies if the nego-
tiations fail.
The ROK foreign minister