International: Wanted To, But Didn't

Red propagandists tirelessly charge that the South Koreans started the war. A fortnight ago, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky told the U.N.: "The leaders of the South Korean government . . . were preparing to attack North Korea; they were preparing for war. They said so . . . They were working toward it, not in secret but with the support, protection and connivance of their protectors from beyond the seas."

Last week before the U.N., South Korea's peppery little Foreign Minister, Y. T. Pyun, answered the charge quite honestly. Substance of his remarks: we would have attacked the North Koreans if we could,...

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