Evening star., 1953-02-26
The Political Mill
Administration Strikes
First in u. N. Debate
Lodge Seizes initiative,
Indicates New U. S. Policy
By Gould Lincoln

BY Gould Lincoln
The Els enh over administration.
through United States Chief Delegate
to the United Nations Henry Cabot
Lodge. Jr., moved quickly yesterday to
seize the initiative in the controversy
over the Korean war at the u. N. meet
ing in New York. Mr.. Lodges vigorous
attack at the opening session of the
U. N. Political Committee caught the
Russians off balance for a moment. He
charged that Soviet Russia started and
is continuing the war-and that until
Russia has change of mind there can
be no end to the war.
Obviously the policy of the new
dminiStratibn-and Mr.. Lodge was
quick to point out that a new admins
tration now controls in Washington-is
to hit first. and not sit back and wait
to answer vituperative addresses OF
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrew Y. VII
shinsky. The United States chief dele
gate listed 10 formal charges, which he
called facts, all tending to show that
the Korean war had been started at
Russian command, that Russia was
supplying the weapons to keep the war
going, first by the Communist North
Koreans and then by the Chinese Reds.
"The rulers Of the Soviet Union can
stop the war whenever they want to-"
Mr.. Lodge asserted, "and Mr.. Vishinsky
knows it," The United States delegate
minced no words.
Tables Turned.
The United Nations, so long used by
VishinSky and other Communist dele
gates as sounding board to spread
poison throughout the world against
the United States and the other free
nations, suddenly becomes the forum
OF attack on the Red spokesman and
the policies of Soviet Russia and Com
munist China. Mr.. Vishinsky's angry
reply that he will answer the Lodge
charges-the facts presented-gets him
nowhere. The facts can be demon
strated
Lodges refusal, the day before he
launched his charges against Russia's
Communist government, to have his
photograph taken shaking hands with
VishinSky is better understood in the
light of his attack on Vishinsky which
was to follow in a few hours. Also.
Lodges comment, when asked his rea-
son for not posing for such a photo
graph. is enlightening. 1t was: Don't
you know there is a new administration
in Washington" Social amenities ap-
pear to be out of the window, Tempo
rarily.
Mr.. Lodge was speaking at the U. N.
with the full knowledge of and for
President Eisenhower. OF that there
can be no doubt. The tactics of the
administration merely carry forward a
determination of the President not to
be outmaneuvered by the Reds-and
certainly not to be browbeaten by VII
shinsky at the U. N. meetings. The
attitude of the new administration now
expressed is all-of-piece with the Presi-
dents order to the 7th Fleet no
longer to prevent any attack the Chi
nese Nationalists on Formosa may
choose to launch against the Commu-
nist-held Chinese mainland. Also. it
is in line with his recommendation that
Congress enact a resolution setting
forth clearly that the United States
will never recognize agreements made
with Russia toward the close of the
war which have been ignored by the
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of peoples. .~
Not Forgotten.
President Eisenhower made it clear
at his second press conference here
that these enslaved peoples were en-
titled to know that We have not for.
gotten them. We cannot afford to let
them think so, he said.
President Eisenhower, while continue
ing aggressively to show the peoples Of
the world that we intend to carry the
cold war to the Soviet government and
its satellites, made it plain he is not
pushing toward a hot war. What he de-
sires above all is sound ground for
peace. AS evidence, he told his press
conference he would go anywhere to
meet any one-who would come half
way-for face-to-face talks, which
might lead to peace. Stain was quoted
not long ago as saying he would regard
favorably conference between Eisen-
hover and himself. The President is
not, however. thinking Of journeying to
any part of Russia, or back of the Iron
Curtain at any point.
AS matters stand, the Soviet govern
ment has now to prove to the world
and even to its own people and its
nations-that it has not been
guilty, as charged by Mr.. Lodge, of
training the North Koreans to fight
and urging them to attack the Repub-
lie of Korea, and of supplying them
and the Chinese Reds with the arms
to continue the war. So much the Eli
Senhower administration has accom-
plished with its quick action at the
United Nations.
Growing Red Recalcitrance.
Ever since the days of 1945, when
the U. N. Charter was written at a
United Nations conference in San
the recalcitrance of the Rus
slams toward all reasonable efforts for
peaceful settlement has grown. In the
early days of the peace organization,
however, the Russians, Vishinsky among
them, sought out the late Senator VAN
denberg of Michigan, delegate to the
United Nations, although Vandenberg
repeatedly warned against the agrees
Sive purposes of the Soviet government.
A story he told this correspondent sug-
geStS somewhat grim sense of humor
on the part of Vishinsky. who looks
more like an Iowa farmer than a ter
rorist. Vandenberg commented to VII
used an interpreter
that the then President of the U. N.
Security Council always looked with a
disturbed air at Vishinsky, before he
said or did anything at meetings of the
council. In fact" Vandenberg told
Vishinsky, 'you seem to have him ter
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