The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-01
Dulles, StGssen
VIII Report To
Session Today

WASHINGION VT - "A Speclal
meeting of the National Security
Council gave President Eisenhow-
top military and foreign policy adj
ViSers today the critical problem
posed by South Korea's rejection
Of the latest truce terms submit
lAd to the Communists in Korea.
A threat by Syngman Rhee'S
Government to break up any armi-
mistice reached on United Nations
terms as presented to the Reds
. week ago threw gloom over
what Pickering hopes existed that
an end to the fighting might be
achieved.
The announced purpose of the
security council session was to
hear a report from Secretary of
State Dulles and Foreign Aid Adj
ministrator Harold E. Stassen on
their 20-day tour of the Middle
East and South Asia.
But it appeared to be a virtual
certainty that the truce situation
would come up for discussion at
the meeting of the governments
top foreign-military planning body,
Dulles viii report to the public
on the trip which he and Stassen
made. His department described
as a major foreign policy pro.
nouncement the speech Dulles
planned tonight Is p. m, EST
over ABC radio and television and
over Du Mont television networks,
with a rebroadcast by NBC $3.50
p. NO. and possibly others in differ
ent time zones.
Dulles, Secretary Of Defense VIII
son and Gen. j. Lawton Collins,
the Army chief Of staff, conferred
Saturday with Eisenhower. Declin-
ing to give details, the White
House said the session was de-
voted to Korea.
South Korea's ambassador, You
Chan Yang, declared on an NBC
television interview yesterday that
his country viii Ego it alone" if a
truce is reached which leaves Ko-
rea divided. He said u. S. efforts
to enforce compliance with such
a truce would be tragic and
short-sighted."
when thief comes and kills
your wife and family" he asked,
"do you punish him, or do you
just tell him: "Stay over there'?"
Noting that the u. S. and the
United Nations are on record as
favoring a united Korea, Yang said
agreement on anything less would
mean that the Communists have
definitely won the war"
Questioned about South Korea's
threats to fight on alone il a truce
not satisfactory to them is reached,
Yang conceded that its capabili-
ties of resisting the Communists
are limited. But he said the Ko-
reans would rather die than be
enslaved. and he added:
1--WE would hope and pray some.
one would see it our way and
help"
James H. Cromwell, former us.
ambassador to Canada, who is now
military adviser to South Korea,
said on an ABC television pro-
gram from Philadelphia yesterday
he, doesn't think that country is
in position, materially, to boycott
the U. N. armistice plan.
He said he would advise Rhee to
accept the armistice terms because
Rhee "has the personal guarantee
of President Eisenhower that the
actual and final peace terms viii
meet all reasonable and fair OBJ
jections of the Republic of South
Korea"
Yang said that II the prisoner of
war issue were the only one pre-
venting a truce, South Korea would
not be too much concerned about
how il was settled. But the Com.
munists, he said, are only using
the pow issue ito delay matters
and build up their strength. The
truce talks are in recess until
Thursday. the u. N. having grant
ed a Red request for a three-day
delay in resumption.
Eisenhower is understood to have
dispatched personal message to
Rhee. While il was cloaked in Sc
erecy, II was said by officials to
have stressed that:
/. The U. S. win not be deferred
from making an arm.Stice on what
1t regards as honorable terms.
z. The security Of Y, N. forces
In Korea must be the determining
factor in truce talks.
5. The U. S. continues ready 10
support the South Korean govern
ment.
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