Evening star., 1953-06-07
Eisenhower
Continued From First Psge.)

tary Dulles Cancelled a COM
mencement address tomorrow at
Bucknell University, LeWisburg.
Pa. where he was to receive an
honorary degree.
President Eisenhower is re-
ported to have asked cabinet
members to stand by for confer
ences on the truce situation.
South Koreans Affirm Stand.
The concern of officials here
is first to get South Korea to
sign the impending truce agree
ment or, failing that, to prevent
any violation such as has been
threatened by South Korea's an
nonuced determination to fight
on for unification.
This determination was re-
affirmed here yesterday by AM
bassador You Chan Yang. He
said Mr.. Rhee land our people
will never sign" the truce agree
ment which has now been al
most completely negotiated by
the United Nations command
with the Communists. The Am
bassador said he felt that since
the United States and the
United Nations had set out to
unity Korea the proposed cease
fire on a line dividing the coun-
try meant that I'VE are being
sold down the river"
Seek U. S. Support.
When asked what his coun-
try would do if an actual truce
becomes effective in the immedi-
ate future, he said, Our people
will fight on unless we get some
thing definite and tangible lin
the way of assurances of United
States support) between now
and then"
President Rhee has been
quoted from Korea as saying his
country would have to go along
with the United States Oh the
truce though opposing it. But in
a statement issued by the en-
bassy here Friday night Mr.. Rhee
laid down fairly elaborate re-
quirements which would have to
be met before his country would
cooperate. The essence of these
was insistence that a mutual de-
fense pact be concluded between
South Korea and the United
States. to be followed by with
drawal of both Communist and
United Nations troops from
Korea. ..
Delay on Terminal Date.
Optimism here turns on what
is understood to be acceptance by
the Communists of a terminal
date for handling prisoners of
war who do not wish to return
home. The U. N. command is
holding 48.500 of the prisoners
and has insisted that post -armiS-
tice plans for dealing with them
must be limited to a period of
a few months after which they
would be freed.
At that time the $4,000 Korean
prisoners presumably will be alb
Sorbed in South Korea. Officials
here expect that the United Ma
tions will decide what to do
with the 14,500 Chinese POWs.
Truce Is Seen Near.
Agreement of the Reds on his
point-there has been no official
disclosure of details-leads au-
thorities here to assume that a
truce is undoubtedly at hand.
With details of the armistice line
yet to be negotiated by staff Off
GERS. there is a feeling that the
cease fire will become effective
soon.
Such a ruce would stop the
fighting in the position-cutting
across the 18th Parallel but
mostly north of it-in which the
armies have been stalemated
throughout the negotiations.
That would mean North Korea
would remain under Communist
rule and South Korea under an
American-supported government.
1t is primarily out of this fact
that the crisis with South Korea
has arisen.
Rhee Seeks Defense Pact.
For Mr.. Rhee would prefer to
trys to get unif1cation of his
country by military action in
stead of halting the fight and
trying to negotiate unif1cation at
political conference. He and
his associates have contende6
that such a conference would be
incapable of unifying Korea and
that the only hope lay in COM
pelling the Reds to get out.
The United States long ago
rejected this solution. While it
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