1951-01-09 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1951.

ACCEPTANCE OF

OF BRITISH PLEA United Nations Postpones Action On China No Drastic Measures To

Be Decided Yet

Lake Success, Jan. 8.

The United Nations Political Committee tonight accepted Britain's plea that they should adjourn until Thursday to seek a basis for a Korean settlement before taking drastic measures against China.

By a vote of 44 to five, with seven abstentions, the Committee ac- cepted Sir Gladwyn Jebb's appeal for one last effort for an honourable settlement.

Mr Jacob Malik, the Soviet delegate, opposed an abettors, sponsors and finally adjournment, declaring that the Chinese People's Republic partners in that aggression into its humbled bosom. The alter- agreed with the Soviet view that the only way of settling native is to be driven into the the Korean problem was to withdraw immediately all sea." foreign troops and allow the Korean people to settle their own affairs.

"If the United Nations does so capitulate, it will have an- nounced to the world that there

This was the only solution which could "release the is one moral principle of re- people of Asia from the plague of war."

drawal of all troops.

Even if this were not ac- ceptable to Peking, the United Nations should be on record as accepting these Reuter.

principles.

in result

a

sistance to aggression when the aggressor is small, and quite another and quite opposite principle of resistance when the aggressor is sufficiently power- ful and arrogant. To make that admission is to put an end to the moral value of the United

Nations Charter."

The Herald Tribune

said:

to

ag-

Sir Gladwyn suggested the jup arms and which it still is delay to give the three-man determined to assert. cease-fire.group time to con- "It is not unnatural, when sider all possible approaches. He faced with a situation in which urged an acceptance of the it is becoming increasingly un- Israeli plan for a stage-by-stage likely that Peking is prepared settlement of all Far Eastern to consider an honourable solu- issues, starting with a cease-fire tion, that United Nations memi- in Korea and the gradual with-bers should be pondering what "Some hope apparantly per. to do next and what way is best sists among the non-Commu- to manifest their unity of pur-nist nations. that in spite of all, cease-fire arrangements can pose. We know it may be neces- sary to take action which might be worked out. That hope is real cleavage so slim as to be negligible. between China and the-free Moreover, if the Chinese were world. That would be fraught to find it in their interests | CAUTIOUS SUPPORT with dangerous possibilities for call a truce, a charge of

deter Lake Success, Jan. 8.

all the world and not least for gression would hardly China,"

them. As for fear of an Britain

all- today expressed

out war, the definition of cautious support for the Sir Gladwyn indicated cau-China's offence does not in any seven-point Israeli programme tious support for the program-way commit the United Na- for ending the Korean war, me proposed by Israel. The chief tions or the United States but. Russia rejected it on points of that programme call such an engagement. With the grounds that it did not demand for an immediate cease-fire, the immediate withdrawal of progressive withdrawal of

aggressor recognised for what all United States forces

he is, it then becomes the task from non-Korean troops from the Korea!

peninsula, the establishment of by what means and to

of the policy-makers to decide what Declarations by Britain's Sir a unified Korea under United extent he is to be checked and Gladwyn Jebb and Russia's Nations auspices with Com-

punished. Jacob Malik in

United munist China and Russia par- of moral courage and intellec- Meanwhile, by acts Nations main Political Com- ticipating in the supervisory tuál lucidity the United Na- mittee were doubly significant commissions, and as a final step tions will at least have done a because the Israeli plan

consideration "as was

a inatter of

plain thing which the free understood to be the basis of urgency" of all outstanding the cease-fire. formula expected problems between Peking and United Press.

peoples of the world expect." to be put forward eventually the United Nations. by the United Nations three- man negotiating committee.

the

LAST-EFFORT

Sir Gladwyn said: "I think. The proposal of the com-most of us agree with the general mittee of three was forwarded criticism of the Peking slogan last week to the Indian Prime of 'negotiations, first and cease- Minister, Mr Pandit Jawahar- fire afterward. lal Nehru, who was expected cease-fire

to discuss it at the Common-conditions.

don.

Of course, a

must be on certain

Trouble In Indonesia

ders.

Djakarta, Jan. - 8.

to

35

Eleven-year-old Sita Eskandt flew from London Airport to see her mother for the first time for a year." The trouble started when her mother met an American soldier in Berlin two years ago. He came to England and Sita's mother followed, obtained work and after- wards married her GI. He was discharged a year ago and took his wife home to San Francisco, but Sita could not travel with them, the quota law stopped her. Sita has been staying in Yorkshire for the past year.-----.

London Express Service.

Nehru Attack On War Hysteria

Mr Jawaharlal Nehru,

London, Jan. 8. wealth Prime Ministers' Con- "I think a last effort should

the Indian Prime ference now in session in Lon-be made before we stant think- A Dutch spokesman said Minister, said here tonight that he came to the

ing of more drastic measures, here today that Ambonese Sir Benegal Rau, India's If we are to make one final members of the former Royal Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in chief delegate to the

United effort to make Peking see reason, Netherlands Indonesian Army London in the hope that it would help in Nations and chief cog in the I do not want today to favour were restless and that there mediation movement, was ex-lone particular approach....But had been minor incidents and strengthening the forces of peace in the world and pected to fly to London prob- the (Israeli) plan should receive cases of disobedience to or-in avoiding war. ably on Tuesday to discuss fullest debate." the plan..

Sir Gladwyn asked the Com- The spokesman denied that He told a gathering of over a question of some liking it or To allow time for the seven-mittee to take a few more days, the Ambonese had rebelled 15,000 Indian nationals at an disliking it; it was a fact, point programme to materialise, perhaps adjourning until Thurs and had started shooting at the Indian Embassy reception: In Many people outside Asia the 60-mation Political Com- day, "before we entirely despair population as a Hague des- that hope I came; in that hope were not able to realise these mittee adopted Sir Gladwyn's of a solution which would enable patch, quoting "reliable sources,' we are still labouring."

changes in Asia; they were suggestion and adjourned, until us to live in harmony with the had reported on Saturday.

He said that some of them going by old slogans.-Reuter, Thursday. But before it quit for new regime, at Peking. This He also denied that Colonel

had seen two world wars; yet the day, it heard Mr Malik's break may take place. If it Van Santen, the Dutch Com-1

people were talking about an- attack of the plan for ending does, it must be clear that it mander in Indonesia, had

other the Korean fighting and settling will in no way be the fault of orders to use. force if necessary like the atom bomb.

war, in the worst terms the Far Eastern crisis. Mr Malik those nations whose one objec- against the Ambonese, as The

"I do not said: "The Israeli proposals do tive has been not to attack China Hague despatch had stated. not contemplate the immediate but to show that aggression The spokesman added, how inevitable," he withdrawal from Korea of all does not pay..

Nor will this ever, that Colonel Van Santen I hope it will

the most dangerous foreign troops. They make it break in any way immediately had discretion to take necessary. possible for the United States assist the efforts of our soldiers, measures if the Ambonese that people sometimes become interventionists. to maintain We must and shall

give those make trouble because Holland hysterical or fatalistic about it, their troops in Korea as soldiers all support while the was responsible to the Indo-as if it is bound to happen long as they deem fit. We hostilities continue.

We must nesian Government for their and there is

nothing we can of also, however, recognise that a conduct.

do about it.” suppose the representative Israel, more than any other de- collective break with China will

Colonel Van Santen, how- Mr Nehru said: "We must legate, is aware of the inconsis- not help those soldiers."United ever, had reported on Satur- meet the situation logically and tengy of such proposals. In Press.

day that the situation in the reasonably without allowing Palestine the United Nations re-

Ambonese camps was quiet.ourselves to be swept away by peatedly passed cease-fire re-

The Dutch authorities did not passion or anger." solutions, but these brought no result."

བ་

NOT UNNATURAL

BOLD DEMAND

New York, Jan. 8. A New York Times editorial, regard the incidents in the commenting on the Korea de camps as serious.-Reuter, bate in the United Nations, said the Chinese Communists. "not

merely risk but boldly demand A Discordant Note the complete moral disintegra- tion of the United Nations.”

think war is declared, "and

be avoided, but thing is

He said that no government or people wanted war; but the odd thing was that they were finding themselves, in a feeling being swept towards it. of passion, prejudice and anger,

They should try and prevent that process of being swept to a

Sir Gladwyn said: "I think I am expressing the views of the great majority when I say that all honourable ways out

Paris, Jan, 8, should be explored but that, in The paper said: "The United The Communist-led "Action the last resort, we cannot Nations is told upon what terms Committee's" meeting here to war. arrive at

peaceful and if can capitulate in face of night voted a resolution calling He stressed the great changes a "patriotic strike at 10 that were taking place in Asia honourable insists on cease-fire terms grievous and illegal error in a.m. tomorrow in protest against Particularly he referred to which ignore the principles for denouncing that aggression in General Eisenhower's visit to China as one of the major which the United Nations” took the first place and take the Paris- teuter

changes in history. It was not

if Peking | aggression. It can admit its for

Hongkong Telegraph

Morning Post Building, Hongkong,

per

Published daily (Mid-Day) except Saturdays & Sundays.

Price. 20 cents

edition.. Subscription: $5.00 per month. Postage: China, Macao, UK Bri- tish Possessions and other coun- tries. $1.10 per month..

News contributions, always wel come, should be addressed to, the Editor, business communications and advertisements to the Secretary. Telephone: 26611 (5 Lines).

Printed and published by William Alick Grinham for and on behalf of South China at 1-3 Morning Post Limited Victoria in the Colony of Hong- Wyndham Street, City of

kong.