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The United Nations Command Staff Officers told the Commun-
ists that their proposal of 5 March, formally presented on 21
March, might, with adjustments, constitute a suitable basis for a
solution. The adjustments contemplated concerned civilian internees
and other cases. The Communists indicated that they might con-
sider such adjustments, but on the following day, 26 March, they
reversed their ground and resumed their usual verbal attacks on
the United Nations Command.
The Staff Officers of the United Nations Command outlined
the concessions the command was willing to make in order to achieve
agreement. The United Nations Command would accept the Communist
principle for the release and repatriation of all prisoners of war
on the basis of the 18 December 1951 data; the Command was willing
to deliver to the Communists the civilian internees and prisoners
of war whose residence was formerly in the area of the United
Nations Command if the individuals desired to return; the United
Nations Command was prepared to consider the 50,000 missing and
unreported United Nations Command personnel once claimed captured
by the Communists as beyond reach in the same sense that personnel
released by the United Nations Command because they were subject
to a special situation would be beyond the reach of the Communists;
and the United Nations Command had modified its position of no
forced repatriation to the extent that all prisoners of war would
be repatriated whose return could be effected without physical
violence.
These real concessions the Communists rejected in continued
tirades against the United Nations Command. They made what they
called a "great concession" by proposing that all Korean prisoners
of war whose residence was formerly in the territory of the de-
taining side "shall be repatriated with the exception of those who
desire to return to the area of their original residence". The
Communist brazenly attempted to make it appear that their willing-
ness to accept a concession by the United Nations Command was a
concession on their part. The Communists still demanded that the
forced repatriation of all non-Korean prisoners of war held by the
United Nations Command. They refused to make any attempt to
solve the problems remaining other than on their own unsatis-
factory terms.
DA IN 132825
(28 Apr 52)
- 979 -
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