Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-05
u. n. Sets Study
Of F|yerCase
For Tomorrow
Steering Committee
Will Act on American
Plea From Lodge

UNITED NATIONS, NY, De.

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An official memorandum
charged the Chinese Communist
Text OF U. S. Memorandum on jailed
Flyers. Page A-8
action in holding the American
flyers was "a clear-cut violation
of the (Korean) armistice agree
ment."
U. N. executives scheduled a
Steering Committee meeting for
Monday afternoon to consider
the demands.
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., chief
United States delegate, presented
the request for quick action to
Secretary General Dag Hammar-
skiold and Assembly President
DR.. Eelco N. Van Kleffens, of the
Netherlands.
The Steering Committee will
take up Mr.. Lodges plea for a
debate to be held quickly by the
Donation Assembly itself instead
of routing it first through the
main Political Committee.
Step Carefully Discussed.
The United States and it's Is
allies, in Korea carefully dis
cussed the step before Mr.. Lodge
came in with his letter, approved
by the other countries, asking
the Assembly to make a special
agenda item of the complaint
of detention and Imprisonment
Of United Nations military per-
sonnet in violation of the Korean
armistice agreement"
Actually the Peiping regime
had announced 1t was holding Is
Americans, but the United States
complaint dealt only with the II
flyers. Two civilians held along
with them were excluded because
the U. N. had no jurisdiction
over them.
Russia's Delegate Arkady So
bolev told reporters he would not
comment until he had a chance
to read the American letter and
memorandum.
16 Allies to Meet.
The Is allies planned to meet
Monday to frame the resolution
they will ask the Assembly to
adopt.
Mr.. Lodges memorandum did
not say exactly what steps will
be asked. It did not indicate
what other U. N. personnel were
involved, but the United States
had charged previously that
hundreds were being held.
A source here said the U. N.
command in Korea last May listed
prisoners still held as 526 Amer
leans, about As British soldiers.
5 or 6 Turkish soldiers. and a
scattering of prisoners of other
nations
A United States source said
that it would now be impossible
to end the U. N. Assembly by
December 10, a target date the
United States has been insisting
on. Saturday, December 10, just
a week before Christmas, was
now considered a more likely
cutoff date. the source said.
Shot Down Over Korea.
The explanatory memoran-
dunn, required for placing items
on the U. N. Assembly agenda,
detailed that the II United
States flyers were in a B-29
plane shot down near Sunchon,
in North Korea, January IL.
1858.
More than a year and a half
later, Mr.. Lodges memorandum
said, the men were brought be-
fore a Chinese Communist mill
tary tribunal and sentenced to
long terms in prison.
Red China's radio announced
the Communist action November
% and the United States imme-
dlately moved for release both
directly in Geneva and through
British diplomatic channels
based in Red China. The Com
munists rejected the pleas.
Mr.. Lodge conferred in WASH
ington earlier In the week on the
question. Secretary Of State
Dulles flew here yesterday to
consult further with Mr.. Lodge.
At a news conference, mean
time. President Eisenhower re-
marked that the United Nations
could hardly keep its self respect
and not try to do something
to get the flyers released.