Evening star., 1955-02-01
u. n. Holds Up
Talks TO- Await
Peipiing Reply
Possibility Is Seen
Thot Chou May Join
Formosu Debute
BY the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. r,
Feb. Limited Nations Security
Council discussion Of a cease.
fire in the FormoSa Strait today
awaited Red China's answer to
the Councils bid for Peiping
spokesmen to join in the debate.
U. N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold cabled the invi-
tation to the Chinese Communist
capital last night after the
Council voted to:
l. Take up New Zealand's re-
quest for debate on "hostilitieS
in the area of certain islands"
off China;
g. Invite the Chinese Reds to
participate in the debate; and
8. Delay until after the New
Zealand proposal Council con-
sideration of renewed Soviet de-
mands for immediate withdrawal
of United States Armed Forces
from the Formosa area and sur
render Of the coastal islands to
Peiping.
Peiping Silent on Bid.
The Council then recessed its
sessions until Mr.. Hammarskjold
hears from Peiping. Some dele
gates speculated that Red
Chinese Premier Foreign Minis
ter Chou En-lai himself might
decide to attend.
A Peiping radio broadcast today
made no mention of the council
invitation but said that New Zea-
land should withdraw its pro-
poSal-which is aimed at q
cease-fire-in favor of the Rus
sian resolution. Quoting from
the official Chinese Communist
newspaper. the Peiping Peoples
Daily. the broadcast repeated
Red Chinese pledges to "liber-
ate" Formosa. the Pescadores
and the coastal islands and as
serted interference" would not
be permitted. 1t added that only
United States withdrawal from
the area will ease the tension
there.
United States Chief Delegate
Henry Cabot Lodge. jr.. voted
with eight other Council mem
bers to extend the invitation to
Peiping. But Mr.. Lodge quickly
made plain to the Council his
vote meant no change in United
States opposition to seating Red
China in the U. N. or in Ameri-
can refusal to recognize the
Peiping regime.
Must Deal With Peiping.
Mr.. Lodge said because Red
China is a party to the armed
conflict. the United States has to
deal with Peiping just as it had
to on the Korean and Indo-
China truce questions at Geneva.
The U. NJ Charter also requires
that both sides in a dispute be-
fore the Council must be invited
to debates, but Red China would
have no vote.
Mr.. Lodge indorsed the New
Zealand proposal, which envi-
sions the writing of a Council
cease-fire resolution after Red
China and all other parties have
been heard in the debate. The
United States delegate called the
Soviet resolution a "preposterous
cold war fraud"
Nationalist China's T. Fl.
Tsiang voted against the invi-
tation to Peiping, saying that
the Chinese Communists were
still on the U. N. books as con-
demned aggressors in Korea. He
also opposed addition of the So
Wet resolution to the agenda
and abstaiued on the vote set
ting debate on the New Zealand
proposal. which he termed SUI
perficial
Soviet Delegate Arkady A. So
bolev abstained on the invitation
vote because it called for the
Red Chinese appearance during
consideration of New Zealand's
proposal rather than his own.
He voted against giving priority
to the New Zealand motion.
Mr. Sobolev argued that the
Soviet proposal should be con-
sidered first because it dealt
with the causes of the Formosa
tension. These, he charged, were
the protection OF Chang .Kai-
shek's government by the United
States and Nationalist attacks on
the Chinese mainland.
New zealand's Sir Leslie
Munro. ending a months term
as Council president yesterday, =.
said his governments sole OBJ
jective was to get the fighting
halted in the hope that other
peaceful steps would follow a
relaxation of tension.
Sir Leslie told the Council he
realized there would have to pe
lull in the debate until Red
China makes known its reaction
to the invitation.