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    "ocrText": "40 vara MOTTA\nThe\nDAILY\nlews\nA SCRIPPB-HOWARD NEWSPAPER\n1013 13th St. N.W. (Zone 5)\nE\nPhone DIstrict 7777\nIn Metropolitan Washington: By Carrier,\n25c Per Week, $1.10 Per Month. By Mall:\n6 Months $5.50; Per Year $10.00 Foreign\nMail Rate: $1.50 Per Month, $18.00 Per\nYear.\nJohn T. O'Rourke Matt Meyer\nEditor\nBusiness Manager\n\"Give light and the people will find\ntheir own way.\"\nTOWARD\nWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1952\nMOSCOW SCORES AGAIN\nA\nFTER 53 of the 59 members of the\nUnited Nations-including the United\nStates-went out on a limb by voting to\naccept India's appeasement plan for a set-\ntlement of the Korean war, the Soviet\nbloc has rejected the proposal.\nThis leaves the Reds in the driver's seat,\nif and when peace negotiations are re-\nsumed.\nWith the India plan as a starting base,\nMoscow can bargain for further conces-\nsions, and the United States and its as-\nsociates haven't any trading material left.\nThe Reds couldn't want it any better\nif they had planned it this way-as per-\nhaps they did.\nThe apparent obstacle to a Korean set-\ntlement has been the repatriation issue-\nthe question of what to do with those\nprisoners in Allied hands who do not wish\nto be returned to the control of their\ncommunist overlords. The Indian 'com-\npromisa' proposed that this problem be\nCurned over to a commission of four mem-\nbers and an unnamed \"umpire.\"\nThe four nations were to be two Soviet\nrubber stamps, Poland and Czechoslovakia,\nand two neutrals, Sweden and Switzerland,\nSweden qualifying as a neutral in India's\neyes because it has recognized Red China.\nThe nations resisting aggression in Korea\nwere unrepresented, indicating the extent\nto which the United Nations was willing\nto retreat from its own position to buy a\nmeaningless peace.\nFortunately, time is running out on\nSecretary of State Acheson and com-\npany, and this may be the last time they\ncan sell the United States down the river.\nBut the eventual liquidation of this situa-\ntion has been made the more difficult by\nthis indefensible and humiliating kow-\ntowing to the Reds."
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