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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1950.
SOME LEGAL
The basic questions in the Far East crisis are simple ones. Is aggression, to be checked? Can the United Nh- tions vindicate the right of small countries to live un- molested?
deal will
But the crisis has given rise to all sorts of subsidiary legal ques- 24354tions, some of very great com- 82812 plexity. They were not all of them perceived in the first few Korean crowded, days of the episode. But they are now pre- senting themselves, and a good probably be heard about them in future weeks, es- pecially if the Korean problem is debuted at length in the Security Council and in the General As- sembly of the United Nations.
About
questions there has already been a great deal of
discussion. These were the two
points put forward by Russia to try to show that the Security Council had acted lo- Fally.
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CHINA AND NORTH
KOREANS
There is one closely-guard- ed secret which is of vital im- portance, but on which no comment has been made and,
far as we know, no ques-. tions have been asked. It is this; was the People's Govern- ment in China consulted be- fore the North Koreans in-
two of the
First I claimed that the Coun- cil could not function in the ab- sence of one of the great powers; and Russia had been absent from the meetings at which the de-
eiston to condemn North Korea
and support South Korea was
taken.
it claimed
that
Secondly, Amerien had taken military action in advance of being au- thorised by the Security Council.
These particular charges by Russia have been replied to in great detail by both Great Bri- lain and America. The replies wero convincing, especially in the form in which they were stated
by Mr. Alfiée în the House of Commons debate.
Intricate questions
The other questions are much more intricate and much less easy to decke convincingly one way or the other. The prin- North and South Korea separate Sovereign states?
fore the
QUESTIONS
By "Windrush" Special correspondent
is n Into
came
The Red Goebbels
Southwards
ན...
Good Morning
•
.båtleved I'cinain
Japanese princes have afarted
called the a marriage burenu "Pure Pence Club,"
The Japs, of course, have always had a reputation for irony.
The Russians have, however, Great Britain recognised South
"Edward 11. Lanier. that Korea-did they recognise it as
that the
public would put forward the argument
is not an
two things the conflict in Korea
the state of South Korea, or did International war
but
elvil they recognise the
The Russian people did not grounded' until government
These wero;
the open slowed war. Korea, they soy, is a sine of South Korea as the do jure realise the full meaning of plane operation were overcome. gle country. The division into government of all Korea.
the Korean war when the cups' fail." two countries at the 30th parallel Hare the
divisions circumstances must North Korean
When I'm in my cups I get has, say the Russians, no basis be recalled in which Dr. Syng- swarmed
on brilliant solutions like that too. in International agreement. There rann Rhee's government
Tune 25. present ghting
being. A United Nations different fac-Commission had been appointed struggle between
to try to unify North and South tions in Korea to decide which of them is to be the government of Korea. Because North Korea had an undivided Koren,
refused to admit the Commission The Orst thing to notice about into its territory, the Commis- this argument is that, even if it slon had supervised the demo- were conceded to be correct, it cratic election of a national as- would not, as the Russlans sug-sembly for South Korea only,
out action by the gest, rule Security Council to bring confilet to an end. The Charter of the United Nations was speci- fically drafted to make it pos- sible for the Security Council to intervene whenever there was a grave disturbance
of the peace, whether or not due to war be- tween nations.
the
Articia 34 reads as follows: The Security Council may in- vestigate any dispute, or any situation which might lead 20 international friction Orive
rise to a dispute...."
Indonesian issue
It was under this article that Australio and India In 1947
brought the Indonesian situation before the Security Council. If Koron had been dealt with in the same way it is by no means that ike Security would have recommend- ed, precisely the same netlon as It did on the basis on which in fact acted. The result would have been the same though the approach was different.
But is the Independent state- seriously
In this assembly one third of
the seats had been left vacant for the absent delegates from North Korea. The tile adopted for the government which resulted was that of the "Republic of Korça.” Ita constitution stated that the territory of the state was the whole peninsula. The question is whether the outside powers which recognised Dr. Syngman Rhee's government recognised also these claims.
Lawfully established
It was treated first as a local Incident in which the USSR was not directly concerned.
Three days later, American re- strong that actions had been so "Pravda" was ordered to voice Moscow alarm and indignation. radio picked up the abuse and
of America
"Alreet
Accused
aggression against the Korean people's reputile and the Chinese people's republic."
In other words, Russin wants to got her biggest satellite, China, mixed up in the quarrel. Stalin won't commit the USSR itself.
But
His propaganda mouthpiece, the Red Goebbels of the Kremlin, ja Comrade Poskrebyshev, one of the
the least known of
Russian leaders, but a man who is emerg- in; now as a power in the land.
Not known
All that can be done to answer this is to quote the terms of the
"We have never heard of him," resolution of the General Assem-
sold the brorian of the Soviet bly of the United Nations in re-
Embassy in Londen yesterday. the commending that
South Korean government should be regando in Moscow. Propaganda la
There is no Ministry of Propa-{ cognised. This resolution stated
so comes "The government of the Republle a party affair, and of Korea in
the lawfully sub directly uniter the Politure in fished
brunch of the Central Committee government having ef- fective control
of the Communist Party, known and Jurisdiction
as the Agitation and Propaganda over the part of Korea where the Department. United Nations Commission oh Koren was able to observe and consult."
mean that the This seems to South Korean government is the de jure and de facto government
vaded the South? If the ans-i cipal question is really this: Are? hood of the two Kore it seems of South Korea. In the Security
wer is in the affirmative, one is forced to ask another ques- tion. Did it approve or dis- approve? The effect of this aspect of the general situation has great bearing not only on the diplomatic efforts of Pan- dit Nehru, and the question of China's admission to the United Nations, but on the future of the Communist blocį insofar as the Far East is con- cerned.
If
in doubt? In strict law. that,
Kören
still really n part of
demonstrated be, radoxical though it may | Counell resolutions
Japon: this is because there has been no peace treaty with Japan to regularise its cession.
In
It could be that they had been internationally recognised as independent states, the position would be much
clear-cut than more would be clear, that the North Korean state was making war on the South Korean state. The Security
It is
Council would then have come in to deal with a dis-
pute of a kind with which it was envisaged from the start that it would have chießy to do--a war bolween sovereign states,
kept the Chinese at arms' length there for 30 years.
actual fact, the South Korean government has been re- cognised, by the United States, Great Britain and certain other slates, acting on the recommen- dation of the General Assembly of the United Nations; but it has
bren not
recognised by Russia and the countries of the Iron Curtain.
The North Korean government has been recognised by the Rus- slans and the satellites but not by anybody else.
ago
Poskrebyshev, chief of the de- partment, la not more than 50 and
monthe was appointed 18 after a purge of party chiefs. He took over when Alexandrov was sacked.
+
•
"The midget plane....can land and take off from an area of 50
ads on."
Let's see now, thuit would mean it'd be only about 20 square feet
wide.
•
Speaker says he has heard of a' mouter plece of jude carved in the shape of a tiger.
П However, rumour lo Tien htke,
"Sollier flued for assaulting waitress."
Sounds like u hit and miss affair.'
•
#
Good-looking women marines have been called up for active duty in the US, army.
With their usual eficiency, the authorities are cireulating" G.1,'s with o then,
Loskiet on what to tell
No, Myrtle, corpsmen is not an Amerlean termi for military casualties. On the other hund, they have "veterans" scarcely out of their teens who may never have seen a shot fired.
•
•
He used to be head of Stalin's "If you take a drink with. Chancellery with the personal Antabuse in your system, your doss dossiers of all Soviet leaders in fact turns red, breath shortens, his care. He is well-educated, { "herit pounds and terrible worry with a University career behind him like Goebbels, but he lacks the rhetorical gifts of the "Doktor" and has to make up for It by executive ability.
Newspapers all over the Soviet while mock indignation meetings Union responded to his directives
were being reported far and wide.
Phoney prelude Incidentally Poskrebyshev was responsible for propagating the international peace petition this
Korcan war,
gun.
*
eviceps syer you.”
Just the same. I'd welish Ble dwink, wight now, now! Chap passing through from Hollywood tells me confidentially Durante's moustache doesn't grow that the reason Jimmy (Schnozzle)
Is that it never gets any a
"I find definitely says Mrs. Becton, was that my script very Fact, Tam horrified that women might have wept."
Strong men, too,
she goes over a Dewspaper like Myrtle Bays of a friend that
cleaner, picking up vacuum
In June of this year, there is no mention of Nortli Korean government. Is mention of "North There Korean authorities" and "forces from North Korea."
The
possible importance these rather legalistic questions is plain. If it could be said that Dr. Rhee's government had been Internationaly recognised as the de jure government of all Korcs, then, it it was accepted that the conflict was a civil war and not an international war, the North Koreans would have no status except that of rebels. But it looks as if this would be an over-sim-summer-phoney prelude to the plification,
It was backed by the British Communist Party,
The peace stop has now been pulled full out. Factories are reported by "Pravda" to be dis- playing such placards os "End Aggression against Korea," "Re- pulse the War-mongers" Artd
Support
Peace" banners hung out by the party for bewildered factory workers.
"Pravda" repeats its accusa- tlons that Korca and China are the victims of aggression. There's ing a stable and lasting peace.
But there is another question. These and other legal ques- It may reasonably be assum-
When the United States recoglons, must be thrashed out Ju
the next few weeks. ed that the Kremlin relented nised South Korea - and when about Outer Mongolia only because it badly needed some show at least of China's off- cial
association
with the
'No' to Moscow
Taipeh, ever ready to fish in troubled waters, put out a story that the Kremlin had remitted supreme direction of the North Korean opera- tions to Mr. Kao Keng, the head of the Manchurian Gov- ernment. It is a story that is completely untenable. Another Taipeh report spoke of
a North Korean aggressors. "momentous scheme"
in Peking Radio has broadcast which Stalin and Chairman detailed stories of the formal Mao Tse-tung were to take ceremonies which followed personal charge of a show-the opening of diplomatic re- down of force between thelations with India, the satellite Communist bloc and the De-countries, and even capitals so mocracies. There is no evi-distant as those of Scandi- dence to sustain such a story, navia. But we have heard What we do know is that nothing of any exchanges of Peking resented the introduc- any compliments either in tion of Taiwan into the
Peking or in Pyongyang. No Truman statement and has word of sympathy has been repeatedly expressed that re- uttered from Peking about the sentment officially and un-"aggression" of which North officially. Statements
the war ended, have Korea complained. No public been made that it will go assurance of moral or material ahead with its plans regard support has come from any less of the military neutralisa-Peking Government leader. tion of Taiwan. It has also
and
By David Lee
Dressed in their Sunday{ To the port, shipyards, oil re- best, 15,000 shipyard work anery, steel mill, fishing ers, wives and families cheer-
Indus- try. To new industries such as ed as a bottle of sickly sweet factory where smokes at
shoc factories and 3 elgarette Italian champagne shattered and-sixpence for 20 will be made. ong- against the hull of a new liner in Trieste's largest ship:_oll refinery, largest. In that part When the war ended the city's yard the other day,
of Europe, way
after gutted numerous accurate pin-point at- The 13,000-ton motor-ship Aus-tacks by British low-level fight- tralla sild Adriatic the Arat ocean-going
confidently into the er-uombers. ship to be built in this well- Known Balkan.danger spot since
cargo
Too busy to riot
It
I looked down on the launching scene from a near-by crane, was difficult to believe that this cheering, well-dressed crowd three years ago was largely Com- munist.
was then This shipyard
in the strecis.
time for Communism.
✡
Three years ago Trieste had the figure is around 15,000, work- come 30,000 unemployed; today less employabies.
Today, the refinery, exceeding pre-war production, is a vital cog in the over-all European re- covery machine, refining British crude oil from the Middle East.
Evidence that today Trieste
A
men
aro
other
not the sparkle and fizz in these Kremlin handouts that Joseph Goebbels concocted when he was behind the big desk in the Wil- helmstrasse.
A Russian war widow is holsted up before party reporters to speak to a workers' meeting about the "unbridled American imperial- ista," Resolutions are being passed in many industries, all on the same theme, Poskrebyshev is evidently a due-note man.
Their trumpet
only the dirt.
w
Why doesn't some bright type invent a hollow cake of soap? Then when the bar is used up there wouldn't be those annoying little pleces left.
tion of armaments and of ensur-
"As long ago as 1946 the Soviet Union proposed the prohibillon of atom weapons, but the leaders of the imperialist camp rejected, the proposal.
Mad arms"race" "Instead of disarming. the Anglo-American imperialists de veloped a mad arins race." Instead of the conclusion, of a peace 'pact, they started to organise oggres- sive alliances and blocs."
I don't need to trouble to tell
what
Poskrebyshev has told
The Soviet Government has "Izverila" to say, pursued a policy of peace and co- operation among nations Armly and consistently at all ages of 1is existence," says "Pravda."
"Soon after the end of the wor
He hasn't yet been allowed by Stalin to declare that the Allied. action in Korea is aggression. ngainst the peoples of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
No
the Soviet Government, through
doubt the Politburo aro the United Nations, put before thinking twice before they give ter where policemen dared enter the Governments of all nations Comrade Poskrebyshev permis- only by the truck-load arined the question of a general reduc- 'sion to pull out that stop. with carbines.
Wha
I saw only one policeman in the whole district. unarmed and chiding ů jay- walking pedestrian.
Bomb incident
I sat at a gay side-walk cafa and drank coffee. Fifty yaris up the street, I recalled, In 1940, a
headquarters. on a British army jeep. A British lieutenant had a leg blown off.
bomb tossed from Communist
Now-thanks to that £21 A head Marshall Ald-all was quiet in.")
"Lille Stalingrad."...
The launching of the Australia and -bullt to carry E00 passengers the Australia оп run for the famous Trieste ship-breathes caster is seen every.
where. Peking has been most vocal ping Inc-Lloyd Telestino wis attacked the "armed interven in its indignation about the, Communist-held Problem City's four years ago ill-famed Com-
Langible evidence of this former
I revisited "Little Stalingrad," tion" in Korea-which has neutralization of Taiwan, and shaken Peking as well as the it has broadcast a great deal covery and normalcy.
progress down the road to re-
munist-dominated workers' quar- Kremlin to the core-and the of anonymous comment about "interference" with what it the "American aggression" in calls the people's liberation Korea. But the silence on movements in Indo-China and North Korea conveys its own the Philippines.
condemnation too. One can But there is seldom any re-well imagine the real indig- ference to the action of the nation in Peking if it were not Security Council about Korea, consulted, or, if consulted, had
while Peking Radio been overruled. The resent- Communist stronghold. Red flags broadcasts plenty of pro- ment would not be limited, dew from idle cranes Unem- paganda about events in that of course,
to the North played workers armed with rocks country, no official statement Koreans themselves, for the the battled with police whatever has been made. Kremlin would never be able Today these same workers are There is in fact room for the to persuade Mao Tse-tung too busy working a 48-60 hous suspicion that Peking was not that it had also been ignored ne ocean laers to have much (six day) week on four mora consulted, that relations be-in, the matter. tween the People's Govern-
The position as it has since ment and North Korea scarce developed has vitally affected ly existed, and that the Chin- the People's Government at ese deeply resent what hap- every point. It has affected ita pened-all the more so now whole programme of econo- that it has involved them, too, mile re-organisation, and its in the dangers and risks im- military dispositions, and un- plicit in the entire crisis. folds the risks of manifold] North Korea did not rush complications, not merely on to recognise the People's the long frontier of Manchuria Government. If it had any with North Korea, but in the passionate desire to do so general international situa and there is no evidence it did fion. It is a vastly different --Moscow restrained it. It position from that which was not until about the same Chairman Mao Tse-tung sur- time as Britain offered reveyed with such serenity and cognition, that Pyongyang assurance in his speech to the made this gesture. On closing sesalon of the Nation In the past two years ERP hasing this ship, rank, Peking's alde there was no al Committee of the Political reaponse. And when it did Consultative Council only a send a mere Charge d'Affaires few hours, before the North to Pyongyang, a fortnight Koreans struck at dawn! ERP ald has amounted to 021 after the invasion had begun, There was in fact no head of the population in com it was not until a Chinese shadow of a hint whatever in other countries, including Britain, parison with the # average in Ambassador had at last boen either the tone or outlook of or a 4. Parton., 200 grarited a footing in Urge (or that speech to indicate the Those milijone ir įdollars have Ulan Bator as it is now call- vast change that came on the been distributed diary jadi pemerken ik kan Indyako ?? The Busslang:bad. morrow.
o'p industriali polenialga
undecided. Every solution hax Yet politicallyTrieste is all its spags.
Meanwhile ill-feeling between Italians and Stays in forever of potent racial brew bolls over almmaring: periodically this pot
Stalin and neo-Fascist fanatles Allied authorities must keep a briefing watch on pro-Tile, Pro
waiting to exploit any all all with hidden, arma dumpa weaknes
sign.at
By the end of 1050.Trieste may nulled as now of skulled workers na now indus trial projects got under way.
During the same period, the strength of the local Communists could be mustored in a few hours has shrunk. Then 100,000 Reds for mose demonstrations which resulted in riots and bloodshed: today: after weeks of agitation in 1,000 might appears the fted prem a crowd of some
On the economic fronts still Trigite: owen, its conversion, the worker. has: reason lu com- from a post-war Red trouble spot plain. Up on the crane watching to its traditional role of prosper the launching ship-builder An trial centre to Marshall Aldige earned 25 a 18-hour wook-build- ous port, shipbuilding and Indus tonlo Blanchi toid
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