The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-12
IN. Agrees To Resumption
OF Conference Negotiations
" WILLIAM e. BARNARD
ana JOHN RAapcLPH

:
SEOUL 1.-THE U.N. Command
today agreed 10 meet with Com.
mHnist IIaIsoa oftleers Thursday
% discuss resumption Of negotia.
tons 10 arrange . Korean peace
conference.
u. S. State Department repre-
sentative Kenneth Young stipulat-
cd In q note to the Communist high
command that be was sending his
IiaiaOn secretary 70 Panmuniom
s'for the purpose Of discussing con-
ditions for resuming conversations
as well as the date for their re.
sumption. =
ne Communists proposed late
yesterday that Haison officers
meet at PanmunjOm tomorrow to
discuss resumption Of preliminary
political talks TO set up an over
all Korean peace conference.
Young sent the Red request to
Washington and the decision was
made by the State Department
there.
The preliminary conference,
which was TO work out the time,
place and composition Of q peace
conference, was broken off Dee. II
when u. s. special envoy Arthur
Dean walked out after Red neg0-
tiat0Fs had accused the United
States Of ''perfidy,"
Earlier, India offered the Ko-
rean repatriation commission a
secret plan for solving the tense
war prisoner problem after the
group turned down Q Swedish pro-
posal to free al P0Ws as civilians
Jan. -.
Rejection Of the Swedish plan
doea not mean the P0Ws viii be
held past then but only that the
specific proposal was not accept
able.
India voted against il with the
Communist Czech and Polish dele
gates against the swedes and the
Swiss.
After hearing the new Indian
proposal, the commission adj
journed until Thursday.
The commission did not reveal
any details Of the Indian plan,
but II appeared possible II might
be similar 10 one revealed Mon
day BY top source.
The source said an Indian plan
under consideration would give the
prisoners back to the Allied and
Red commands, getting the indiana
and the commission off the hook
without an Out.and.0ut ruling
against either side.
The defeated Swedish proposal
paralleled Allied demands that ths
22,5O0 prisoners be released al
civilians after midnight Jan. q,
The Reds insist they be held until
. Korean peace conference dis
eusses their fate,
Although the United States
agreed 10 discuss reopening Of the
stuck preliminary talks on q peace
conference, the actual conference
still appears many weeks--anG
perhaps months-in the future Al
best.
The liaison officers meeting
Thursday would be To talk over
another session which would only
draw Up the plans and set the
date for the peace conference.
AZ brief news conference Nouns
was asked II the United Nations
would demand retraction Of the
"perfidyn charge. Young Faplied,
I'VE win have to work that one
out"
His manner indicated that al
actual retraetion might not BE-
accessory,
He said. Something might BE-
done that would represent q re.
traction"
The original talks lasted seven
weeks before Dean walked out and
and returned to Washington.
They had reached an impasse
over U. 8. refusal to accept the
Communist demands that Russia
be seated at the conference as q
neutral.
Young said he assumed Dear
would return to Korea TO head the
political talks If they are resumed
The State Department Asian ex,
pert said he received orders from
Washington % 10 what to tell the
Communists today, and that he
sent the reply to the Reds at Pan,
munjom through the Military Arm,
istice Commission.
Young said the haiSon secretary
who viii meet with the Reds viii
be instructed 10 determine '.whai
the conditions are under which the
political talks viii be resumed. We
viii want to know whether she
atmosphere win be reasonable
constructive and respectable"
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