Evening star., 1954-01-12
Allies 10 Meet
Reds on Bid 10
Reopen Talks
Young Sending Aide
To Ponmunjom for
Discussion of Terms
BY the AssoeIatsd Press

Discussion Of Terms
BY the AssoeIatsd Press
SEOUL. Jan. 12.-The United
Nations Command today agreed
to meet with Communist liaison
officers Thursday to discuss re-
sumption Of negotiations to ar
range Korean peace conference.
United States State Depart
ment Representative Kenneth
Young stipulated in a note to
the Communist high command
that he was sending his liaison
secretary to Panmunjom "for
the purpose of discussing condi-
t1onS for resuming conversations
as well as the date for their re-
sumption"
The Communists proposed yes
terday that liaison officers meet
at Panmunjom tomorrow to dis
cuSS resumption of preliminary
political talks to set up an over
all Korean peace conference.
Mr.. Young sent the Red re-
quest to Washington and the de-
ciSion was made by the State
Department there.
The preliminary conference,
which was to work out the time.
place and composition of a peace
conference. was broken off De-
cember IL when United States
Special Envoy Arthur Dean
walked out after Red negotiators
accused the United States of
"perfldy."
India Offers Plan.
Earlier. India offered the Ko-
rean repatriation commission a
secret plan for solving the tense
war prisoner problem after the
group turned down a Swedish
proposal to free all POWs as
civilians January %.
Rejection of the Swedish plan
does not mean the POWs will
be held past that date but only
that the specific proposal was
not acceptable.
India voted against 1t with
the Communist Czech and Polish
delegates against the Swedes
and the Swiss.
After hearing the new Indian
proposal. the commission ad-
journed until Thursday.
The commission did not reveal
any details of the Indian plan,
but it appeared possible 1t might
be similar to one revealed yes
terday by q top source.
The source said an Indian plan
under consideration would give
the prisoners back to the allied
and Red commands, getting the
Indians and the commission of
the hook without an out-and-out
ruling against either side.
Indians Have Deciding Vote.
The Indians have held the de-
Gliding vote all through the COM
missions existence with the other
nations almost always lining up
2 and 2.
The defeated Swedish pro-
posal paralleled allied demands
that the 22,500 prisoners be re-
leased as civilians after midnight
January %. The Reds insist
they be held until a Korean
peace conference discusses their
fate.
Although the United States
agreed to discuss reopening of
the stuck preliminary talks on a
peace conference. the actual con-
ference still appeared many
weeks-and perhaps months-in
the future at best.
The liaison officers meeting
Thursday would only be to talk
over another session which
would only draw up the plans
and set the date for the peace
conference.
The Reds had asked a meeting
only to discuss the time for re-
sumption Of the political talks.
Mr.. Young, who is Northeast
Asia expert for the State De-
partment. said he had postponed
the meeting from Wednesday,
when the Reds wanted it, to
Thursday "for convenience"
He addressed his message to
North Korean Delegate Ki Sok
Box. who had been meeting with
Mr.. Dean in the political talks,
and Huang Hua, Chinese dele
gate who also attended the talks.
At brief news conference Mr..
Young was asked if the United
Nations would demand retrac-
ton Of the "perfldy" charge. Mr..
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