Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-14
ASIA
Little Geneva ToIks
Drog as Chino Reds
Stall on 40 Cuptives

Those who think of Communist
China as routinely abject Soviet
satellite are due for a little re-
thinking in the light Of the little
Geneva" conference of American
and Chinese ambassadors.
Red China is noticeahly less eager
than the Soviet Union to make up.
She has been stalling for two
weeks on releasing 40 odd Ameri-
cans still held in Jail or under house
arrest. The effect, of course, has
been to revive misgivings about the
Reds peace offensive in the Far
East
Flyers Torture
Other reminders of Peiping's
hostile attitude toward the free
world were provided by the II
American airmen just released
from Communist Chinese jails.
While Premier Chou En-lai was
talking peace in Banding last
April, his henchmen back home
were inflicting medieval tortures
on an American B-29 bomber crew
to extract military secrets from
them.
Col. John K. Arnold, jr., of nearby
Silver Spring, the B-29's COM
mander, bore the brunt of the
barbarism. He admitted sorrow
fully that the Chinese got out Of
him some of the military Informal
ton they wanted-but not all.
Koreo FIoreup
South Korea's President Syng-
man Rhee did his bit last week to
keep before the world his philosophy
that there can be no compromising
with communism.
Last week end he had issued an
ultimatum to the five neutral" ma
tons inspection teams policing the
armiStice in South Korea. Get out
OF the country in one week, he said.
The deadline was yesterday.
DR.. Rhee made it clear he was
aiming his custer order mainly at
the Communist Poles and Czechs
on the teams, whom he accused of
spying. Spontaneous" demonstra-
tons against the Communists broke
out in Pusan. United States guards
and some Korean demonstrators
were slightly injured.
President Rhee pleaded with his
countrymen to keep their protests
peaceful. But the demonstrators
got more and more emotionally in
VOWED as the week wore on. Ameri-
can troops set UP machine guns at
the gates OF the compound where
the Pole and Czech "neutrals" live.
Yesterday DR.. Rhee extended the
deadline indefinitely.
In Washington Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles Sympathized
with the Korean attitude toward
the CzechS and Poles, but he said
South Korea ought not to use force
to revise the truce terms.
Next month the United States
may ask the United Nations Gen.
eral Assembly to sanction a sus-
pension or modification of the
truce-team operations in Korea.
II the U. N. consents, of course, it
will still be necessary to get the
North Korean and Chinese Com
munistS to agree.
South Wet Nam
South Wet Nam also resisted the
peaceful co-eXistence wave last
week by publicly announcing it
would not participate in prepara-
tons for nationwide elections un-
til there was some assurance Com
muniSt North Wet Nam would per-
init people under its control to
make free choice.
Pokiston
In Pakistan Prime Minister Mo
manned Ali, former Ambassador
here, lost his job to another Moslem
League leader, Chaudri Mohammed
Ali. The new government will be
coalition of Moslem League and
United Front. Chaudri Mohammed
Ali was formerly Finance Minister,
Philippines
In the Philippines, President
Ramon Magsaysay used his great
personal prestige to push through
special session of the legislature
a new land reform bill, which will
permit breaking up some of the
country's large estates, by expropri-
alton if necessary. for distribution
to tenant farmers. He also won
from his Nacionalista Party re-
sounding vote of confidence in his
American foreign policy.