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The War of the Words
20. A U.N. resolution recommending that "all appropriate steps be taken to ensure conditions of stability throughout Korea" implicitly instructed MacArthur to:
1. Cross the Manchurian and Soviet borders if necessary.
2. Restore the Syngman Rhee government to power throughout Korea.
3. Begin the trials of Red war criminals in North Korea.
4. Cross the 38th parallel.
5. Use any weapons he needed to win the war.
21. In November the U.S., Russia and Great Britain were in rare agreement when they voted to invite Chinese Reds into U.N. discussion of:
1. A possible Chinese trusteeship in Korea.
2. MacArthur's report on Chinese intervention in Korea.
3. Outlawing of the atom bomb in the Korean war.
4. A general settlement of the Korean war.
5. Plans for extending the U.S. Point Four program to Manchuria.
22. And while the Peking radio called for more conscripts to drive the U.N. from Korea, Russia's Vishinsky insisted that:
1. There were no Chinese in Korea.
2. Russia was strictly neutral in the whole affair.
3. The Reds had no intention of driving U.S. forces from Korea.
4. All Red Chinese troops in Korea were volunteers.
5. Red China had been forced into the war by Allied bombing of Mukden.
23. The Chinese Reds coldly refused this invitation but suddenly accepted a previous invitation to send representatives to discuss:
1. Charges of U.S. aggression in Formosa.
2. Their possible election to membership in the U.N.
3. The future status of Hong Kong.
4. A U.N. program to check opium-smoking.
5. The Pakistan Plan for Peace in the Orient.
24. When this Chinese representative finally appeared at the Security Council meeting he made a speech which:
1. Was remarkably conciliatory.
2. Clearly disassociated Red China from Russia.
3. Condemned Red China's position.
4. Made it clear that Mao could not be weaned away from Moscow.
5. Was in the typical scholarly Mandarin manner.
25. After weeks of anxiously avoiding anything likely to upset the Chinese, the U.N. adopted and sent to Peking a third cease-fire plan which contained all but one of these proposals:
1. Immediate ceasefire.
2. Re-establishment of the 38th parallel boundary.
3. Withdrawal of all "non-Korean" troops.
4. Establishment of a new Korean government under U.N. guidance.
5. A Four-Power conference to discuss Formosa and other Oriental problems.
26. The Peking government rejected the cease-fire and demanded as a prior condition to any negotiations:
1. Their admission to the U.N.
2. The original copy of the White Paper.
3. Withdrawal of all "non-Oriental" forces from Korea.
4. A U.N. pledge to stop interfering in any part of the Orient.
5. Recognition of Red China by the U.S.
27. After one more message from Peking, this U.N. delegate pushed through a resolution which:
1. Imposed mic sanctions against Red China.
2. Adjourned to the bar.
3. Branded Red China an "aggressor."
4. Successfully negotiated new cease-fire terms through India's Sir Benegal Rau.