Evening star., 1954-06-03
Geneva Conferees
WrestIe With Issue
OF Policing Truce
BY the Assoeioisd Press

GENEVA, June 3.-Western
and Communist delegates wres-
tied with new deadlock today
over the thorny question of Red
participation in the policing Of
an Indo-C China armistice.
Agreement on this key point
appeared remote rs the nine
party Far Eastern conference
prepared for another secret SeS-
sion today.
The deadlock developed at
yesterdays closed-door meeting
when Russia insisted that the
Communists must be represented
on any truce supervision COM
mission. The Western powers
firmly demanded exclusion of
any Red representatives.
MOIOtov Indicates Gravity.
RusSia's Foreign Minister v.
M. Molotov reflected the gravity
of the problem when he told
the conference it would be diff
ficult to reach agreement on
truce supervisory machinery un-
less Communists were repre-
sented on the proposed agency.
Another difficulty arose yester-
day when Pham Van Dong, vice
premier of the Communicated
Wet Mimi, declared the proposed
neutral nations supervisory COM
mission should be given only one
task-controling the entry of
arms and troops from the out
side.
He got quick support from Mr..
Molotov, but Frances Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault de-
clared that the commission
should control all phases of a
cease-fire. including regrouping
of forces, policing of ports.
watching Red China's frontiers
and checking on all war ma
terialS.
The new difficulties were re-
garded as extremely serious in
view Of the Importance attached
to the policing problem. West
ern diplomats have insisted from
the beginning that there can be
no ceaSe-fire unless there is a
truly neutral body to supervise
implementation of agreements
reached in Geneva.
Neutrality Disputed.
Western officials argue that
Communist nations cannot be
neutral in a dispute where one
of the parties is Communist.
The Reds indicated yesterday
they want the major burden Of
supervising the cease-f1re to be
borne by mixed French-V1et
Mimi commissions rather than
the broader international body.
Mr.. Bidault, on the other hand,
said France would agree to have
the neutral commission set up a
small mixed subcommittee for
local duties. But this, he added,
should be limited in this func-
ton and should remain under
control of the international
group.
Method of Choosing Studied.
The Western powers, mean
while, continued to study the
question of how the proposed in
ternational body should be COM
posed..t They generally agreed
that it should be made up mostly
of Asian nations, but the exact
terms of their proposal have not
yet been worked out.
Russia's scheme for a four
nation commission appeared to
have been killed off by Western
opposition. The plan called for
a Korean-type body-part Com
munist the rest non-Red-for
Indo-Chlna. The Soviets nomi-
mated Communist Poland and
Czechoslovakia along with India
and PakiStan.
The West quickly objected.
charging that Poland and Czech
oslovakia-both members of the
old Korean supervisory group
had been anything but neutral
in that dispute.
Britain's Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden suggested yester-
day that the whole question of
supervision be shifted to a tech
nical committee, just as the