Evening star., 1953-07-09
Top Delegates
Reopen Truce
Talks Tonight
Clark Still Unable
To Win Rhee, but
Ultimutum Is Denied
By the Associofed Press

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The United Nations Command
said full-scale truce talks-re-
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pm. EDT today.
The meeting presumably was
arranged during a 15-minute
liaison officers session at Pan
munjom today. But the official
U. N. spokesman refused to say
more than that the meeting was
held for administrative pur-
poses only"
Talks With Rhee Fail.
Announcement that the truce
talks would resume came a few
hours after a top-level u. N
delegation headed by Gen. Mark
Clark tried again to win Presi-
dent Syngman Rhee's support OF
a truce They apparently failed.
A highly-placed South Korean
source said Mr.. Rhee still is
holding out despite United
States offers of a military Sc
curity pact, substantial" eco
nomic aid and equipping and
training of four more divisions
for the 16-diviSion South Korean
army.
The source told Associated
Press Correspondent Bill Shinn
that Mr.. Rhee still is insisting
that his country must have
from America concrete assur-
ance that Korea will be unified"
peacefully or by force. He
added that the 15-day talks be-
tween Mr.. Rhee and President
Eisenhower's special truce envoy
are deadlocked.
Ultimatum to Rhee Denied.
An authoritative source said
Gen. Clark handed Mr.. Rhee an
important letter dealing with
South Korea's objections to an
armistice. But an official spokes-
man said emphatically that the
letter was not an ultimatum to
Mr.. Rhee to accept present truce
terms.
Informed quarters here specu-
lated that allied liaison officers
asked the Reds at Panmunjom
today when Polish and Czech
members of the neutral nations
supervisory commission can start
work.
Gen. Clark, in a June 20 letter
to the Reds proposing that a
truce be signed now, suggested a
meeting to discuss when the neu-
trail commission can start func-
tioning.
Representatives from Switzer-
land, Sweden, India, Poland and
Czechoslovakia will supervise an
armiStice.
It was possible the Reds would
call a truce meeting Friday.
Clark Returns to Tokyo.
The U. N. command asked for
today's liaison session after the
Reds said yesterday they were
ready to resume the full truce
talks, which were recessed June
20 after Mr.. Rhee ordered the
release of some $1,000 anti-Red
North Korean war prisoners.
Gen. Clark flew back to Tokyo
late today after his 22-minute
conference with Mr.. Rhee.
Assistant Secretary of State
Walter Robertson, President
Eisenhower's truce emissary,
leaned from his car as it sped
from Mr.. Rhee's hilltop mansion
and told newsmen:
"The same as yesterday"
U. N. generals and statesmen
have failed to bulge Mr.. Rhee's
insistence that the United States
agree to resume the war unless
a post-armistice political con-
ference progresses toward unfit
cation of Korea in three months.
Attending the conference with
Gen. Clark and Mr.. Robertson
were United States Ambassador
to Korea Ellis o. Briggs and
Robert Murphy. political adviser
to Gen. Clark.
The chairman of the U. N
truce delegation, 1t. Gen. Will
liam K. Harrison, flew here for
conferences with Gen. Clark be-
fore the U. N. commander re-
turned to Tokyo.
The letter Gen. Clark delivered
to Mr.. Rhee was secret, but re-
liable sources said it dealt with
the 14-day-old secret talks be-
tween Mr. Rhee and Mr.. Rob-
ertson.
The Presidents truce envoy
said fatty that the letter was
not an ultimatum.
When he arrived in Korea
Gen. Clark told newsmen he had
received no new instructions.
But Washington reports said
President Eisenhower and his top
advisers had been closeted to
draft new instructions for Gen
Clark following receipt of the
Communist letter saying the
Reds were prepared to restart the
machinery for completing an
armistice.
The Red letter made it clear.
however, that the U. N. COM
mand must shoulder the respon-
sibility for seeing that South
Korea observes the terms of an
armistice. It also called for the
allies to see that no more anti
Red prisoners escape and to as
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up the $1,000 now at large. 4