Synopsis F, Korea - Developments in the United Nations, December 1950-February 1951
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KOREA - Synopsis F: Developments in the UN,
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December 950-February 1951
U.S. SERVIORS
RECURDS
AND
The General As-
As a result of the Soviet veto in the UN Security Council on
sembly Takes
November 30th of the six-power resolution that would have con-
Up the Chinese
demned Chinese Communist intervention in Korea and WO uld have
Intervention
pledged that the Chinese frontier remain inviolate (see Synopsis D),
many UN delegations were studying in early December, jointly and
separately, what new action might be taken in the UN to halt the
Chinese Communist aggression in Korea and to forestall the possi-
bility of a general war in theFar East. On December lst General
Assembly President Entezam, after noting "the gravity of the
present hour" and that "the situation is, indeed, extremely
grave, " observed that the General Assembly was obliged to con-
sider the Korean problem in the light of the Soviet veto in
the Security Council.
Also on December 1st Indian Delegate Rau conferred with Chinese
Communist Representative Wu. This was the first private contact
that Wu had had with any UN member, except the Soviet Union,
since his arrival at Lake Success. Afterwards, Rau said that
he had received the impression that the Peiping government "also
would like a peaceful settlement. "
US Delegate Dulles, in a statement to the press on December 2nd,
said in part: "The UN is having to cope with a diplomatic
offensive deliberately timed to coincide with the military offen-
sive in Korea. The Soviet and Chinese Communists are shouting
at us at the precise time that they are committing
aggression The UN should, and I believe will, stop the
political aggression. I shall urge the Political Committee
to clear its decks of these charges so that it can be ready to
act on the real issue before the world the full-scale entry
of Chinese Communists into Korea. "
On the 4th the delegations of Cuba, Ecuador, France, Great
Britain, Norway, and the US requested two days later that a
new item entitled "Intervention of the Central People's Govern-
ment of the People's Republic of Chinain Korea" be placed on
the agenda of the General Assembly "as an important and urgent
question."
The desire to settle the Korean question by negotiation was
voiced in many quarters. On December 5th Pearson addressed
himself at length to this point, saying that "Iwe should try to
begin negotiations with the Chinese Communists by every means
possible. " Then, said Pearson, if this does not work, at least
"we would have done our best and the responsibility for failure
could be placed where it would belong."
On the 6th Nehru, in an address to the Indian Parliament, pointed
out that the world was "in the middle of a very grave crisis. "
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