Negotiations May Last 10 Weeks
Save American Lives-Aim of Peace Talks
(Editor’s Note:—The following uncensored interpretation of
the Korean Armistice Conference was written by Frank H. King,
AP general executive, upon his return Monday from a three-month
assignment in Korea and Japan. He has been a frontline observer
of the fighting and has talked with top allied military and
diplomatic leaders.)
By FRANK H. KING
AP News Staff
CAN FRANCISCO, July 10—(AP)—The saving of American
Olives, both battle casualties and war prisoners, is the basic
U. S. objective behind the cease-fire conference at Kaesong.
It has placed the United States in a strange and unpre
cedented role, that of appearing, in Communist eyes, at least,
as suing for peace—as having come into Communist territory
seeking terms that will enable the United Nations to with
draw its forces, preponderately American, from the Korean
peninsula.
Actually this is not true, but it is true that the United
States has accepted a “face losing” role. It carries with it a
degree of humiliation in Oriental eyes.
Authorities Accept Role
The American authorities have accepted this, during the
preliminary negotiations, at least, just to make sure that no
opportunity will be lost to try to end hostilities and save the
lives of men on, the battle line and prisoners in the hands of
North Koreans and Chinese Communists.
The tragic fact is that the U. N. command doesn’t know
how many of the 10,000 Americans listed as missing are
alive, where they may be concentrated, their care and health,
or anything else about them.
The Communists have never permitted International Red
Cross representatives to enter North Korea. In contrast, at
Pusan and elsewhere, 160,000 North Koreans and Chinese in
United Nations prison camps are fed and cared for better
than many of the refugee population of South Korea.
American prisoners in North Korea, with bomb raids
continuing, and another cruel Korean winter not too far off,
make an unforgettable picture before the eyes of t ( he Ameri
can truce envoys. A few American prisoners have been used
for the purposes of Communist propaganda, by the sending
of messages and broadcasts, but these are isolated cases.
Likewise, a few have been sent back to the United Nations
lines carrying Communist propaganda. They bring it to as
sure their escape. Occasional prisoners elude their Red cap-
tors, but most of the long list of the missing have not been
accounted for.
The fate of prisoners is only one of the unsolved riddles
of the Korean war. It is feared that the American public may
be in for disappointment, disillusion and letdown on others.
Peace Talks May Take Weeks
First, it may take weeks, many weeks, to stop the fight
ing, even if the talks go better than expected.
One estimate in Tokyo Saturday was that ten weeks
might be a reasonable time—if Armistice terms can be
reached at all.
Secondly, cease-fire on the basis of stalemate near the
38th parallel will not bring the boys home by Christmas, or
even the next Christmas.
Rotation of soldiers will continue, but American divisions
will be tied down on the present strongly-held and fortified
line until the whole question of the future of Korea is clear.
This would include the training of an effective Korean na
tional defense force, which would take a long time. This is
an authorative military view.
The present Eighth Army under Lt. Gen. James A. Van
Fleet is a tough and formidable fighting machine. It is
poised and ready for instant offensive action on a large scale
shouldj there be treachery on the part of the Communists
during the truce talks.
Meanwhile, the shooting war goes on uninterrupted, es
pecially by air and sea, with the land forces carrying on minor
operations across a 100-mile front.
Overt Action Not Expected
Overt Red acts to destroy the negotiations are not ex
pected.
However, based on the day to day chronicle of exchanges,
broadcasts and maneuvers since the first move was made by
Soviet Russia to start the talks, the Communists have not
acted in good faith. This is the conviction held by the highest
United Nations authority.
Every Red move has been a propaganda move, twisting
and misrepresenting the actual steps taken. The result is
that the Communist world and its satellites are informed that
the United Nations have petitioned for an armistice to avoid
defeat and thus have brought near fulfillment the Commun
ist boast that the U. N. forces would be driven out of Korea
into the sea.
The military facts are that the allies have a more power
ful fighting machine in Korea than ever before; it is getting
stronger; and it is ready for instant action.
The key to the Kaesong negotiations will become evident
only after the American envoys present their cease-fire pro
posals. The reaction of the Communist delegation at Kaesong
will indicate the future pattern. Reaction may not come
quickly. Red negotiators may have to refer back to Peiping,
and even as far away as Moscow, before answers can be
given at the conference table.
The Communists themselves may demand such things as
the immediate withdrawal of all UN forces from Korea; with
no. thought that such a demand would be accepted at this
time. ♦
One Proposal—Succeed or Fail
From the United Nations side will be presented one pro
posal that will hold firmly as a demand upon which Kaesong
peace talks will succeed or fail.
The American envoys will demand an effective “right of
inspection” to determine at all times whether a military
buildup is being carried out in Communist territory.
Presumably the right of inspection would have some ap
plication also in the Manchurian sanctuary, the storehouse
and reserve base of the Chinese Communists.
The inspection would be carried out by United Natioiyl
teams. IWI
Another American demand will deal with a neutral
or buffer zone to be established between United Nations and)
Red lines. 119
The neutral zone is of great importance to the American
command, but the right of inspection clause is likely to be
the real test of Communist sincerity.
Battalion Editorials
Page 2
TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1951
SOMEBODY’S GOT TO DECIDE- SOON
‘Death to Court of justice \..
I ET’S Pretend.
First let’s pretend that Iran never signed
that clause that established the International
Court of Justice. She did, of course, but that
was before the Court ruled on the oil crisis
question.
And the ruling, said Iran, was “fantastic
and unfair.” So Iran is just going to play like
she never signed the clause, one of the stip-
Why Take Advantage
Of Our Servicemen?
WCOAK the Serviceman”—it’s a good old
American motto.
It Y a s brought to mind by recent protests
in Houston that certain Houston lawyers had
been charging airmen from Ellington Field
excessive fees for services rendered in civil
ian criminal proceedings. The charge was
made by Col. William L. Lee, Ellington com
manding officer.
The Houston Bar - Association has an
nounced that it “may launch” investigations
into the charges.
The incident reminds us of several re
ported swindles of servile folk during the last
war. Even the “friendly South” left an un
pleasant taste in the mouth of many a serv
iceman stationed in this part of the country.
A lot of merchants and others seemed to
take delight in fleecing soldiers and sailors.
This area is soon to have an influx of
service personnel. It’s up to both College
Station and Bryan citizens to determine now
to see that no serviceman suffers injustice
from the merchants or others of this area.
Today’s serviceman can be tomorrow’s
permanent resident and constructive citizen
—if he finds the pleasant community each
citizen wants for himself and his family.
ulations of which requires signers to abide by
the rulings of the court.
The World Court had advised that Iran
hold up nationalization moves until a five-
man board of two Britons, two Iranians and
one neutral could try to reach a compromise
in the situation.
Just to make the refusal impressive a
few of the Iranian rabble-rousers—and they
seem to be abundant in that country—stirred
up two demonstrations. One shouted “Death
to Anglo-American Imperialists, death to the
Hague Court.”
Now that sounds like rational thinking.
Just about as rational, in fact, as the brain
storm of the second demonstration—.the for
mation of a “National Defense Committee”
in Iran to fight a Holy War, 'if necessary to
defend Iran’s rights.
Even President Truman’s offer of help in
the crisis was turned down by the Iranian
premier with the simple explanation, “It’s too
late.”
And why all this stubborness? Iran does
n’t like those nasty old Britons. And she’s
not going to do anything that would in any
way tend to favor them.
And while that little nation flaunts the
/judiciary arm of the U. N., the oil production
that is the cause of the fight drops to one-
half. It may drop to nothing with the now
almost certain withdrawal of British tech
nicians from Iran.
Shrugging this fact off Iran continues
to plead for her rights to oil nationalization.
If the rules of the game of world affairs
don’t suit her, she’ll just ignore them—rather
uppity behavior for such an infant in that
game.
And, if she keeps up this behavior, Uncle
Joe may invite her to his playground. There,
everyone plays let’s pretend.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Earlier News
Editor, The Battalion:
May I offer a suggestion?
It has become increasingly an
noying to me to read “yesterday’s
Batt” today (because it is not de
livered until then) and find that I
have missed something of worth
the night before, for instance—
“Othello” (last night), announce
ment of movies at The Grove (last
night), etc.
Could it be possible for those of
us who do not receive our Batts in
time to have some announcement
before the day of the event in
your paper?
Thank you,
Mrs. John D. Dameron
(Editor’s note: We would like
to call Mrs. Dameron attention
to the three-column story on
page four of the Tuesday, July 3,
Battalion which announced the
“Othello” program. The Battalion
was not printed Wednesday, July
4, so a story could not be run
on the day previous to the pro
gram.
(We would also like to call her
attention to the complete list of
Grove activities for last week
which was published in advance
in that same Tuesday paper for
the interest of our readers. This
service, however, must be discon
tinued because restrictions have
been placed on announcing pic
ture show titles more than one
day ahead of time.
Johnson Warns of
Communist Feint
^TASHINGTON, July 10—td?)— four days looking into the rental
Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson situation for service men’s fami-
(D-Tex) of the Senate Prepared- lies around the six camps to be
ness Committee warned America covered in a future report,
yesterday that a Korean cease-fire Wouldn’t Pin Point Complaints
mijyit be a, Communist lemt. He tt„ . v , , • . ,
said the nation should look out for e , declined to pinpoint these
a possible “crushing body blow.” complaints untd the formal report
^ Tr * T . IS ready, but indicated that m-
Despite Korean peace talk, John- vestigators had found instances
S0 -Vi S i ai , committee probably -where shacks with no plumbing
■will cneck the possibility of boost- facilities were renting as high as
mg the nations military forces ^30 a nionth to service men’s fam-
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Reports on Gambling
In another field, Johnson told
reporters the committee had re
ports of open gambling and pros-
stitution near a number of army
camps.
He said committee: investigators
had found “serious” rent gouging
of sendee men’s families around
six army camps. The committee, he
added, plans to look into all this
in cooperation with the Senate
Crime Committee headed by Sen.
O’Connor (D-Md).
Johnson did not identify any of
the army camps.
“It 'seems that some of the slot
machine kings have moved in and
set up operations around some of
these camps,” Johnson said.
Johnson said committee inves
tigators had spent from two to
Lt. S. E. Tabor ’45
Killed in Korea
First Lt. Stanley E. Tabor ’45
died last October 8 near Pyong
yang in North Korea while a pri
soner of the Korean Communists,
Dallas relatives have been advised.
He was taken, prisoner during
the fighting at Taejon where he
was serving as a company exe
cutive officer with the 24th In
fantry Division. His relatives in
Dallas were notified last November
that he was missing in action.
Tabor was graduated from the
W. H. Adamson High School in
Dallas and from A&M with a B.
S. in Mechanical Engineering. He
was a World War II veteran of
four years.
Tabor is survived by his wife,
who lives in Dallas his mother,
Mrs. Gertrude Tabor, and a sister.
Miss Joy Tabor and his father,
S. E. Tabor, all of Dallas.
ilies.
In a statement summarizing the
committee’s work since it began
operations July 17, Johnson said
there appears to be “every indica
tion” a cease-fire may be agreed
on in Korea.
But he warned it would be “a
fatal mistake” for America to drop
its guard.”
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Editor, The Battalion:
This letter has reference to Mrs.
Castleberry’s article that appeared
in The Battalion yesterday, July
6, 1951.
Here is without doubt the sad
dest story that I have ever heard
and it may please her to learn
that I am including her article in
my collection of sad, sad stories.
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