Evening star., 1953-11-23
Appeal for U. N.
ToAct in POW.
StaIemate Seen
Indian in Charge
Expected to Give
All Sides of Dispute
BY the Assoc,oted Press


UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, Nov.
ga diplomatic informant in
the United Nations disclosed to-
day that 1t. Gen. K. S. Thimay-
va is preparing to ask the U. N.
General Assembly to step into
the Korean prisoner repatriation
Stalemate.
The source said that the
Indian chief of the Neutral Ma
Reds Are Rebuffed on Plan to Hosten
POW Explanations. Poae "A
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tions Repatriation Commission
In Korea has completed lengthy
report, giving all sides of the
repatriation deadlock. The re-
port is expected here late this
week.
One copy is going to Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold. He
will circulate it to all U. N. men,
berS, opening up the question
for another heated debate.
The informant said it is un-
derstood Gen. Thimayya's report
will make no Judgment on the
deadlock, which in it's latest
phase has halted prisoner ex-
plantations for a week. But he
said it would put the whole ques-
tion in the hands of the Assem-
bly, for decision.
81 Per Cent Spurn Reds.
The Communists failed to con-
vince 81 per cent of the Chinese
and North Korean prisoners they
have interviewed that they
should return to Red territory
They halted the explanations on
q technicality.
About 10000 of the $4,000
prisoners captured by the Unit
ed Nations forces remain to be
questioned.
Gen. Thimayya'S report, it was
said, will carry statements by the
Polish and Czechoslovak repre-
SentativeS on the repatriation
commission. who support the
Communists; by the Swiss and
Swedish delegates; and a review
by Gen. Thimayya himself.
There was no advance indica-
ton what, if anything, Gen.
Thimayya's report would say
about the conflicting views of
India's Prime Minister Nehru
and United States Secretary of
State Dulles on the future of the
prisoners.
Mr.. Nehru has said that, un-
less the Korean political con-
ference gets under way, the U. N.
and Communist commands must
again negotiate the disposition
of those prisoners who still re-
fuse to go back to Communist
territory on next January %,
the end of the 120-day period of
explanations and conference pro-
Yided by the armiStice agree
ment.
Dulles Insists on Release.
Mr.. Dulles contends prisoners
still held on that date should be
released as civilians to go where
they wish.
The Thimayya report is ex-
pected to be made public here
about the time the U. N. Political
Committee is ready to again de-
bate the Korean question in its
debate.
The committee was involved
again today in discussion of
RuSsia'S long-standing proposals
for atom and hydrogen bomb
prohibition and SlaShing arma-
ments by a third. That discus
sion was expected to go through
Wednesday-With the plan due
for another overwhelming de-
feat.
In brief Thanksgiving holi-
day session Thursday, the COM
mittee hopes to get rid of the
question of moving unwanted
Nationalist Chinese guerrilla
bands out of Burma.
The 60-nation Assembly plans
plenary sessions next Friday and
Saturday to debate United States
atrocity charges against the
Communist Chinese and North
Koreans. A 150-page white
paper" will be distributed to
delegates before the sessions to
furnish additional ammunition
for the major policy speech
United States Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge, jr., is writing
The Political Committee could
take up the Korean debate early
next week.