Evening star., 1954-01-09
Red China Asks
Quick Opening
OF Korea Talks
Premier Chou Offers
3 Proposals, Some
Rejected Earlier
Sy the Assoeia.sd Press


En-lai today called for speedy
convening of the Korean peace
conference and offered three
proposals to get the long de-
layed talks started.
Chou suggested in a Peiping
radio broadcast heard in Tokyo:
/. Resumption of the ruptured
preliminary negotiations aimed
at setting up the conference. US
ing as starting point Red de-
mandS that Russia attend the
full-Scale talks as a neutral. This
proposal was turned down flatly
by United States Envoy Arthur
Dean before he broke off the
negotiations last month.
2. That the United Nations
General Assembly consider the
problem, but Chou attached a
string: That Red China and
North Korea-both non-U. N.
members-be entitled" to send
delegates.
3. That the forthcoming Big
Four conference in Berlin lead
to a conference of the five
great powers to promote the
settlement Of pressing inter-
national problems. The fifth
power would be Red China.
No Word on Earlier Denial.
The broadcast, billed as a
statement on Korean issues by
Chou. did not touch on North
Korea's denial a few hours
earlier of an official United
States announcement that it is
negotiating informally to re-
open the stalled preliminary
talks.
Much of Chou's long state
ment repeated blasts that the
United States had wrecked the
explanation program and was
to blame for the break-off in the
preliminary talks.
Chou declared:
I'VE deem that what is called
for today is not definitely to
terminate the explanations and
release the POWs. but to con-
vene speedily the political
(peace) conference on Korea and
seek a settlement of the ques-
ton of the DISPOSITION of the
POWs.".
Chou contended that the Com
mand is entitled to 80 days more
of explanations to WOO war pris-
oners home because Red per-
suasion teams talked with the
anti-Communist captives only 10
of the expired 90-day period.
And he insisted that nom
repatriated prisoners cannot be
released at midnight January %
as demanded by the U. N.
Command-but instead must be
held until a peace conference
decides their fate.
ROKs Rebuff Warning.
Meanwhile there were these
other developments on the Ko-
rean scene:
/. South Korea'S foreign min
lister Pyun Yung Tai rebuffed a
blunt U. N. Command warning
and refused to retract threats his
government might used armed
force against Indian troops
guarding anti-communist prison.
ers in neutral zone compounds.
2. -Four pro-Communist South
Korean prisoners who refuse to
over to Indian guards and asked
return home turned themselves
to be sent to Communist Poland
or Czechoslovakia. The Neutral
Nations Repatriation Commits
sion, of which Poland and
Czechoslovakia are members. will
act on the request.
3. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
commander Of the 9Th Army, said
his forces are fully prepared to
handle $4,000 Korean and Chi
nese prisoners who are expected
to leave their neutral zone COM
pounds January % with or with
out approval of the NNRC.
Gen. Taylor said that if the
Communists attempt to halt the
release of POWs it would most
likely start the Korean war over
again." The Reds have not
threatened force, but he warned
in a news conference the 9th
Army will be alerted for any
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