Evening star., 1953-02-26
Vishinsky Drafts
Singing Answer
ToLodge in U. N.
BY the Associated Press

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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Feb. 26.-Stung by United States
charges that Russia is prolong-
ing the Korean war, Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Y. Vishin-
sky worked today on the reply
he will make before the United
Nations.
Mr.. Vishinsky promised he
would answer the charges made
yesterday by United States Am
bassador Henry Cabot Lodge. jr.,
in the Eisenhower adminiStra-
tion's first major policy state
ment to the U. N. Mr.. Lodge
said the Russians could stop
the war at will.
When the sharp tongued
Kremlin lawyer would try to
parry the American thrusts was
not indicated. But his absence
from yesterdays brief afternoon
session Of the General Assembly
Political Committee indicated he
already was poring over the
2,0O0-word Lodge address.
No other speaker chose to fol-
low the opening American blast
Immediately. Despite pleas by
Committee President Joao Carlos
Muniz of Brazil that delegates
of the 60 member nations get
on with their work, none had
asked for the floor in the meet
ing first scheduled for the fore
noon today and then postponed
to this afternoon.
Soviet Move Awaited.
The diplomats appeared to be
waiting for the Soviet Union to
make the next move. None indi-
Gated any positive new action to
propose in the U. N.
Mr.. Lodge declared in his 12-
minute speech yesterday the new
Republican administration in
tends to stand by the Indian
resolution adopted by the AS
sembly in the first half of it's
seventh session last fall as the
avenue to peace in Korea.
Past performances by Mr..
ViShinsky indicate this compar-
atively brief outline of American
policy would produce two hours
or better of vitriolic rebuttal.
The Soviet Foreign Minister
usually takes his time to work
up such replies after conferring
with the Kremlin by cable.
Mr.. Lodge directly challenged
Mr.. ViShinsky to diSprove a list
OF charges that Russia planned
and instigated the aggression in
Korea, and supplied the North
Koreans and Chinese Reds with
Jet planes, tanks and heavy mil
1tary equipment.
Vishinsky Promises Answer,
Soviet Foreign. Minister An
drei Y. Vishinsky Immediately
took the floor to respond angrily:
~ take up the challenge which
he flung and after study of the
verbatim record I will answer the
questions he asks.
The Kremlin diplomat de-
manded that the u. N. invite
representatives of North Korea
to take part in the debate. but
the committee turned him down,
35-16, with 6 absentions.
The rulers of the Soviet
Onion can stop the war when
ever they want to-" Mr.. Lodge
declared, "and Mr.. Vishinsky
knows it."
Driving home his point, Mr..
Lodge told an eagerly listening
group which has been waiting
for word from President Eisen-
hower's administration on it's
Korean policy:
Failure to end the fighting in
Korea is not due to. any lack
OF cleverness with words here
IN the United Nations. It is
due to the frankly announced
desire of the Communists to
continue the war"
He called on the world to face
the following 10 facts:
1. Soviet planning instigated
the original aggression, which
was subsequently maintained by
Soviet training and equipment.
2. The North Korean forces
were virtually destroyed in the
fall Of 1850 and later reappeared
reconstructed. reorganized and
almost completely equipped with
weapons of Soviet manufacture" :"
3. The flow of Soviet equip
ment is constant and steady and
accounts for the increase of COM
bat effectiveness of the enemy.
4. The Chinese Communists