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Press Release, United States Mission to the United Nations, Transcript of a Statement by the Honorable Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, Before Committee I on the Korean Item
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OCR Page 1 of 33UNITED STATES MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS
THAN
Services,
2 PARK AVENUE
U.S.
NEW YORK 16, N.Y.
MURRAY HILL 3-6810
UNITED STATES DELEGATION
TO THE GENERAL ASSE BLY
Press Release #1566
FOR IMIEDIATE RELEASE
October 24, 1952
TRANSCRIPT OF A STATEMENT BY THE HONORABLE
DEAN G. ACHESON, SECRETARY OF STATE, BEFORE
COMMITTEE I ON THE KOREAN ITEM
AS I suggested yesterday, in considering the last two
Commission reports before us, it seems necessary that we should
take a long and broad look at the whole Korean question, starting
with the beginning of this matter and following it through to the
present day.
There are many things which we are likely to lose sight of,
things which should be present in our minds when we are considering
the questions before us. My Government has thought it important
to report very fully to the United Nations on all that we have done
in your behalf -- all that we have done as the United Nations
Command, organized by us at your request in accordance with the
resolution of July 1950.
we have had many reports: bi-weekly reports are filed.
On 18 October a longer report was filed by the Unified Command. Now
I propose to supplement that by a very full oral report and review
of the Korean question.
This will require looking at some history. It will require
going back to the early days and recalling, as I shall do in more
detail, the early hopes which were held by all of us for a free
and unified democratic Korea. We shall have to recall the
frustration of those hopes. We shall have to recall the persistent
efforts by the United Nations to bring those hopes into being.
We shall have to recall the establishment of the Republic of Korea
and its Government. We shall have to recall the attempts to sub-
vert that Government. Then we shall come to the actual aggression
by force upon the Republic of Korea, and we shall have to recall
again the role of the United Nations, making it very clear that the
role of the United Nations from the very beginning was to brand as
aggression what was aggression, to unify the world so far as it
could to resist aggression, and never at any moment to lose sight
of the possibility that efforts other than military efforts might
be able to restore peace and security in Korea.
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