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    "ocrText": "5.\n\"NATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\nc SERVICE\"\ns\n(Synopsis D, page 4)\nRhee objects\nAs soon as the resolution of the committee restricting the\nauthority of his government was made public, Rhee expressed \"serious\nconcern. Following a meeting of the ROK cabinet on October 15th,\na message was sent to all UN members stating that \"the Govern-\nment of Korea finds these proposals unacceptable as being wrong in\nprinciple and untenable in practice, since they disregard the\nsovereign status and right of the Government of the ROK... Rhee\nsaid two days later that his government was sending civil adminis-\ntrators into liberated areas of North Korea as a temporary measure.\nA bloc of 100 seats in the National Assembly had been set aside for\nrepresentatives of North Korea, and governors for the five northern\nprovinces had been appointed in 1948. Rhee explained that the\nofficials had been carefully picked from among North Koreans who\nhad fled from the Communist regime, and he declared that if they\nwere unpopular with the people or unfit for their jobs, they would\nbe replaced.\nIt was reported without official confirmation on October 30th that\nMacArthur was taking steps to prevent the South Korean government\nfrom extending its authority into North Korea. The report said\nthat the five governors appointed for the northern provinces had\nnot been allowed to assume their posts. On the same day, Rhee,\nduring his first visit to Pyongyang since the fall of the northern\ncapital, told a gathering of an estimated 10,000 Koreans that\nKorea \"automatically\" had been unified through defeat of the North\nKorean Communists by the UN. He told the Koreans that they soon\nwould participate in the government of all Korea.\nThe UN Tackles\nOn November 6th the UN received the special report (see Synopsis c)\nthe question\nof MacArthur which took note of \"the continued employment of\nof Chinese\nChinese Communist forces in Korea.\" Also on the 6th Austin read\nIntervention\nthis report to the members of the UN Security Council and asked\nthat a special meeting of the Council be called as soon as possible\nto consider the Korean situation in the light of the report. On\nthe 7th, the Interim Committee unanimously adopted a Philippine\nresolution calling on representatives of its members in Korea to\n\"lend all practicable assistance in respect to questions relating\nto the North Korean frontier. \" The resolution stated that the\ncommittee believed \"it should concern itself with questions relating\nto the northern frontier of Korea in order that the frontier may be\nfully respected. \" Romulo, Interim Committee chairman, pointed out\nthat the intervention of Chinese Communists in the North Korean\nfighting \"may be occasioned in part by [their] concern in regard\nto --interests in the Korean-Manchurian frontier\" and that for this\nreason he thought it important for the committee to \"issue an\nimmediate declaration with the end in view of reassuring the Chinese\nCommunists regarding the intentions of the UN.\"\nOn November 8th the Security Council met to consider the special\nreport from MacArthur. Malik opposed placing the subject on the\nagenda, but it was adopted by a vote of 10 to 1. Malik then\nproposed that a representative of Communist China be invited to"
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