The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-12
Rhee GiUes No
Sign Of Changing
Stiff Opposition
To CeaSefire Plan
Dy ROBERT 8 TUcKMAN

heir fourth straight day Of anti.
ruce demonstrations today as Al
led and Red staff officers worked
b secret on the last details of an
Armistice that appears almost a
certainty.
The stubborn South Korean ma
aon-and its unbendJng President,
Syngman ,Rhee-gave no outward
Iign of changing, the violent oppo-
Iition to a ceasefire that would
leave the battered peninsula divid-
I'd politically.
However, a truce appears only
q matter Of days away-the time
Il takes the staff officers to finish
the final document In morning and
afternoon sessions at Panmunjom.
The U. N. Command apparently
ID proceeding dndauDted with its
armistice plans in the belief that
South Korea won't make good its
threat to reject the truce and fight
the Reds alone.
Two staff officer groups from
each side have been meeting at
Panmunjom since the historic
prisoner Of war exchange agree
ment was signed Monday.
One group believed to be draw
ing a final line to separate the
forces in a truce, met late Friday
afternoon after its morning session.
The other group, believed writing
details of an overall prisoner ex-
change, recessed until II a. m.
Saturday g p. IN. Friday EST.
There still appeared to be a few
days of work before the lower-level
officers would call the top nego-
tiators back to approve it. Three
Of the four American delegates
were away from the Munsan base
camp-two in Tokyo and one visit
ing a frontline division.
AS the staff officers worked on,
South Koreans marched noisily in
Seoul and sat down in Pusan to
protest the impending truce.
Four hundred men paraded in
front of Allied correspondents
billets in Seoul, pushing past a
single line of metropolitan police to
the gates of the compound, where
they chanted Go north! Go
north"
And Seoul school girls paraded
In several demonstrations, chant
ing Give US uniflcation'' and
March north"
About 400 girls visited the cor
respondents billets where they
sang, shouted slogans and broke
into loud crying on signal from
their leaders.
The marching girls passed out
leaflets to Allied soldiers which
read:
1--WE are dead agains. any truce
without unification. Give us unfit
cation or death. Do not hand us
over to the Communists. Set anti
Communist prisoners of war free. .
In Pusan, shots were fired in the
air in front Of a u. S. Army En-.
gineers unit near the British le-
cation compound, but no one was
injured and their origin was not
known, the u. S. Army Provost
Marshal's office said.
In front Of the American EN-.
bassy in Pusan, sitdown and
hunger strike by about 80 crippled
and wounded South Korean veter-
ans continued Friday.
The Notwithstanding ampu-
tees in wheelchairs-began the
demonstration Thursday night and
insisted ii would continue until
they receive answers to messages
given embassy officials for deliv.
cry to President Eisenhower. Con.
tents Of the messages were not
made public.
President Rhee returned TO
Seoul after a trip to a southern
airfield where he presented the
LIST Marine Air Wing with second
South Korean presidential unit ci.
tation.
He spoke briefly, praiSing the
Marine fliers for lighting side by
side with us in defense against a
common enemy" but made no
mention Of the truce situation.
While there, be met with the
chairman designate Of the u. S.
Joint Chiefs Of Staff, Adm. Arthur
Radford: u. S. Ambassador to Ko-
rea Ellis o. Briggs: former U. S.
Ambassador to Russia William Bul.
lit: Vice Adm. Robert BriScoe,
commander az Far East naval
forces, and Vice Adm. J.. j. Clark.
U. s. Seventh Fleet commander.
AT the Seoul airport. Rhee was
50 heavily guarded that newsmen
were unable 10 approach him.
Briggs, who returned with him, re-
fused comment on the armiStiee.
Government officials said they
knew nothing Of a reported threat
by q. N. officials to cut off mill.
tary and economic aid to South
Korea unless Il accepts the truce.
South Karea's AMBASSADOR 10 the
Z. S, Or, You Chan Yang. made
the charge In q speech Thursday
night at Philadelphia.
Or. Yang said emphaticaIly be
referred "a III n NfffaEnls .n5 naf