Evening star., 1953-09-20
Russia Backs Peipinu
With Demand U. n.
Debate Korea Plan
By the Associated Press

UNI ELL MA 11OINS, N. Z,
Sept. 19.-Soviet Russia backed
Red China's inSistence on Ko-
rean "round table" peace confer
ence today with a demand for
United Nations Assembly debate
on Communist proposals to in
clude India and three other
Asian nations.
The United States and its Is
Korean allies. already picked as
the u. N. side in the conference,
have announced they oppose an
other debate on the peace con-
ference makeup. They are still
waiting for a direct reply from
the Communists on the time and
place of the proposed parley,
after telling them the U. N. de-
cision barring neutrals still
stands.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles was out of the city for
the. day. But a United States
delegation spokesman said the
Soviet move raised the question
of whether the Communists
really want peace in Korea.
CablegramS Are Subject.
Andrei Vishinsky, top Soviet
delegate, took the step to reopen
the question here by asking the
y N. to debate Communist Chi
neSe and North Korean cable
grams to the U. NJ. containing
the round table" demands. as
a special item on the Assembly
agenda.
His demand, accompanied by
notice that he wants to be the
first speaker Monday morning
when the Assembly resumes its
general policy debates, was made
public by U. N. Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold's
Office.
The Secretary-General'S aides
got in touch with Mrs. Vijaya
LakShmi Pandit, Assembly pres
ident, on a Connecticut outing
during the U. Ms week end re-
cess. She ordered a meeting of
the 15-nation Assembly Steering
Committee Tuesday morning to
discuss the ViShinsky demand.
Committee Advises.
The committee is composed of
Mrs. Pandit as chairman, the
AsSembly's seven vice presidents. !
and the chairmen of the AS
Sembly'S seven committee.
The committee passes on in /
GIusfon of agenda items, with
Out discussing their fundamental .
content. If it recommends their /
Inclusion, the full 6O-nation AS
Sembly can reject or ratify the
recommendations by simple :
mai jorlty vote. If the Steering !
Committee rejects an agenda
item, the Assembly itself rarely |
goes over its head.
Based on the composition of
the Steering Committee, it ap-
peared that the ViShinsky de-
mand would be beaten.
EsFhe U. N, in agreeing that
tie sB U. N. allies in Korea plus
South Korea could represent
the U. N. at the peace confer
ence.. barred neutrals but voted
to- Seat the Russians if ''the other
SIDE" wanted them.
+ Unauthorized the United States
to represent the U. N. side in t
dickering on the time and place,
and also authorized the secre-
tary-general to inform the Com
munistS directly of the U. N.
decisions.
The United States sent a re-
quest by way of Sweden to the !
Communists to confer on pick /
ing San Francisco, Honolulu or
Geneva as the site for the meet |
ing. Mr.. Hammarskjold sent |
copies of the U. N. decisions to
Peiping and Pyongyang by way
OF Moscow.
:. The Chinese Reds answered |
by cable last Sunday morning
that the U. N. decisions were
unsatisfactory; added that Rus
sla, India, Burma, Pakistan and |
1ndonesia must be seated as
neutralS; and said that if the |
round table" is agreed on, the
time and place could then be /.