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Vol. CXIX, No. 259.
MacArthur Blasts Truman
Administration Policies
Differ Greatly
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Nov. 14—
(AP) — Southern Governors re
turned to their homes today with
deep and bitter political differ
ences still clouding the future
yurse of the Democratic party in
:w South.
The three-day Southern Gov
srnors Conference was non-politi
cal In its purposes. But it
spotlighted the rift between lead
ers of the States’ Rights Democrats
and those who support President
Truman and his administration.
One thing appeared certain in
the aftermath of the conference:
Political peace in the South can
be achieved only by a compromise,
either on the Democratic party
platform or the party’s president
ial candidate.
States’ Righters
States’ Rights leaders made it
clear they will not accept Mr. Tru-.
man as the Democratic standard
pearer in 1952. They equally were
emphatic: that the price of party
peace must include elimination of
the Clvil Rights issue from the
party platform.
On the other side, the pro-Tru
man forces displayed a willing
ness to challenge openly any move
to organize a Southern revolt
zgainst Mr, Truman.
There was some speculation that
Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose par
ty loyalty plea Monday night cre
ated an uproar—may have held
out hope of a compromise on the
Democratic platform.
Rayburn said he did not believe
there would be a split in the South
and that possible agreement might
be reached on a platform.
Gov. James F. Byrnes of South
Carolina — one of Mr. Truman'’s
chief political foes—said this might
mean the President will not seek
re-election.
Platform Agreement
Piatform agreement, Byrnes
said, would mean cencessions of
the Civil Rightß and National
Health Insurance issues. He
called the insurance proposal “so
cialized medicine.” And he added
he did not believe Mr. Truman
would run on such a platform.
The conference had been wide
lv Keralded as the possible start
ing point for an organized “beat
Truman” campaign. But Byrnes
and others made it clear they had
come te the conference with no
intention of launching such a
move.
Gov. Herman Talmadge of
Georgia told reporters this was
neither the time nor the place to
begin such a drive. Other States’
Rights leaders declared they will
have plenty of time in which to
decide a course of action after Mr.
Truman discloses his intentions,
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Viany Activifies
At"Y" This Week
The Athens YMCA, in keeping
with its tradition of full schedules
of activities for youthful Athens,
is celebrating the 100th anniver
sary of the national YMCA move
ment with multitudes of activities
for the members.
The week was started off with
a bang with the well-known Scor
pions of the “Y” meeting an out
of-town team at the local field in
a football game Monday evening.
On Tuesday members of the
Cub Class enjoyed one of the fav
orite activities of all YMCA’ers.
They were taken on a field trip
to Pinetops, scenic and rustic camp
for boys located on the Mitchell
Bridge Road and overlooking the
Oconee River. A number of the
boys attended the regular camp
session at Pinetops as_well as the
session at the Big “Y” Camp at
Tallulah Falls.
Kindergarten Boys
Today the Kindergarten boys,
the youngest participants of the
“Y” program who are between
four and five years of age, got
their outing at Pinetops. The
youngsters left the “Y” at 11
¢’clock and returned at 2.
Tomorrow evening the 110~
pound team will go to Elberton to
play the Elberton team of the
same weight class. The Elberton
boys should put up a very good
fight as there exists much rivalry
between the two cities in football.
(Continued on Page Two.)
Or. Vinson To
Appear On TV
Dr. J. Chal Vinson, assistant
brofessor of History at the Univer
sity of Georgia, will appear to
nicht on the Views of the News
programr over WSB-TV. He is to
be interviewed by James E. Fain,
Jr., news editor of the sAtlanta
Journal, The interview will cover
"Phases of the Recent British
Election.”
The {alk is based on the column,
“Our World Today,” which is pub-~
lished by the Journal. Last Mon
day’s issue earried an article writ
ten by Dr, Vinson on the British
elections,
The column was designed to
teach high school students with
world events,
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
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By JACK BELL and
EDWIN B. HAAKINSON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—(AP)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's newest
blast at the Truman administra
tion increased talk among some
Republicans today of his possibili
ties as a 1952 presidential candi
date.
But Senator Bricker, a backer of
his Ohio Senate colleague, Robert
A. Taft, told reporters if the GOP
National Convention “was held to
morrow Bob Taft would be the
nominee.” Taft is the only an
nounced candidate.
Backers of a third possible can
didate, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, said they are setting up
national and state organizations
to conduct a campaign to obtain
the Republican nomination for
him. The announcement was made
by Senator Duff (R.-Pa.)) and
former Senator Harry Darby of
Kansas, who said details will be
published shortly, Both contend
Eisenhower is a Republican and
will be available. The Generai has
not committed himself on either
point.
Warren
In Sacramento, meanwhile, Gov.
Earl Warren is expected to answer
“yes” today to the appeal of some
GOP leaders in California that he
make a try for the country’s top
job. Warren, No. 2 man on the
Republican ticket in 1948, reveals
his decision at a press conference.
MacArthur has said publicly he
is “not a candidate for the office
of President” and has “no political
ambitions of any sort.” He is
known to have said essentially the
same thing to Republicans who
have urged him privately to make
himself available.
Those who have talked to him
report the General intends to take
an active speaking part in next
vear’s presidential campaign, in
something of the role of an elder
statesman. In a Seattle speech last
night MacArthur spoke of “diplo
matic blunders abroad and reck
less spend-thrift aims at home”
much as Taft has done. i 08
Despite his disavowals of in
terest, a segment of the Republi
can party continues to believe that
MacArthur, whe will be 72 next
January, offers the Republicans &
glamorous figure and a dramatie
speaker who might well find a
place on their ticket.
Bricker, longtime political ally
of Taft, told reporters that a
swing through the east and mid
west has convinced him Taft will
be the GOP nominee. As for
Eisenhower, he said: £
“A lot of people talk about
Eisenhower but they don’t know
what to expect. They don’t know
if he’s going to be a candidate or
even if he’s a Republican.”
Rep. Cole (R.-N.Y.), just re
turned from a six weeks’ trip to
Europe during which he talked to
Eisenhower, said he has a “very
strong” feeling the general is not
a candidate for the GOP nomina
tion.
Tke Interests
Cole told a reporter he came
away convinced that Eisenhower
is interested primarily in stopping
Communism and that “everything
else, I feel, is secondary to the
General—and that includes the
presidency of the United States.”
MacArthur demonstrated in his
Seattle speech that he and Taft
foresee similar sorts of danger in
the administration’s foreign and
domestic policies.
Referring directly to the Tru
man administration, MacArthur
asserted:
«We cannot be satisfied with a
leadership which declaims a devo
tion to peace with constant plati
tudinous statements and phrases
while taking steps which inexora
bly tend to lead us to war.”
As Taft has done, he accused the
Truman administration of piling
“expenditure upon expenditure,
extravagance upon extravagance”
to the point where if the “reckless
policies of government continue
unchecked, the direct confiscation
of capital” is in the offing.
New Yorker Dies
On Visit H
Un Visit neré
\. Paul Delano King, 53-year-old
; resident of Hamburg, New York,
:died in a local hospital after a
| short illness today at 6 a. m. He
| was & native of Buffalo, N. Y.
i~ «Mr, King 18 survived by his
’lwife, Mrs. Gladys King, and one
| son, Edward P. King. »
‘ The son is a member of the
| Junior Class at the University of
| Georgia and Mr. and Mrs. King
were in Athens to visit him when
the father became ill.
Mr. King was connected with
General Mills in Buffalo, where
purial will be.
Bernstein Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
it
TITO-U. 8. AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—(AP)
—The United States and Yugosla
via today signed an agreement
which will check on the use made
of munitions supplied under the
new foreign aid program.
It provides for an American
advisory mission &t Belgrade
coveting terms on which Ameri
can military aid will be extended
to Marshal Tito's Communist re
gime.
Other provisions likewise fol
low the pattern of agreements the
United States has entered into
with other nations receiving Am-=
| erican arms assistance.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORCIA OVER A CENTURY.
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By The Associated Press
A series of tornadoes and violent
electrical and wind storms struck
damaging blows across wide areas
of the mid-continent yesterday.
The twisters killed at least one
person and injured eight others,
Property damage was expected to
run in hundreds of thousands of
dollars,
The mid -~ November storms
lashed most of the midwesi. Heavy
rain hit many areas. Winds of 100
miles an hour whipped across com=
munities in the path of the torna
does which struck in Illinois, Mis
souri, Indiana and Kentucky.
Weather Bureau forecasters at
tribute the severe storms to the
clash of cold air against the warm
southern air which had extended
over the Midwest the last few
days.
Homes Damaged
Scores of homes were damaged.
Communications were - disrupted,
trees uprooted and traffic slowed
in many cities and towns in the
path of the destructive gales and
electric storms.
The Federal Weather Bureau at
Chicago said at-least two or three
tornadoes struck in Illinois. Winds
reached 100 miles an hour veloci
ty in some areas.
The large intense storm cen
tered in northern Wisconsin last
night. It brought showers and
thunderstorms from the Southern
Great Lakes Region southward
through the Lower Ohio Valley to
the Middle Mississippi Valley.
There was heavy rainfall in the
Northern Great Lakes Region
which changed to snow over the
Northern Plains States and parts
of the North Central Region. Up to
six inches of wet snow covered
Southern Minnesota, making traf
fic hazardous. Many telephone
lines snapped as the heavy flakes
froze to the wires and felled poles.
“The eight persons “injured in
tornadoes were in the Southeast
Missouri-Southern Illinois Region.
The twister skirted a narrow path
through rural areas east of Parma,
Mo., injuring one person. It
skipped northeast across the Miss
issippi river and struck the busi
ness district of Campbell Hill, lIL,
a community of about 800. Seven
persons were injured, two serious
ly.
Illinois Twister
Another twister hit in Central
Illinois, in a narrow belt from
Mason City, about 3¢ miles north
of Springfield, to Hudson, 12 miles
north of Bloomington.
Between 40 and 50 houses were
reported damaged in the tornado
which swept the Glen Park resi
dential section of Gary, Ind. Fire
men and police estimated damage
at about SIOO,OOO. Four inches of
rain fell during and after the tor
nado. el ¢
A freak tornado hit Kentucky
Dam Village State Park at Gil
bertsville, Ka., killing one man,
destroying two buildings and dam
aging another.
There were several wet spots of
rain and snow today.
Thundershowers extended over
areas west of the Appalachians
with heavy falls in some regions.
It wag colder in most of the
nothern and central plains but it
was warmer from the Gulf Coast
northeastward into New England.
Temperatures were around normal
levels in the western part of the
country.
Dairy Leaders Attend
Market Milk Course
’ An Athens firm has made the
only cup vending machine for
milk in the United States that has
been approved by the New York
health authorities, dairy leaders
attending the Market Milk Short
Course on the University of Geor
gia campus were told today.
Pointing out that there are won
lderful possibilities in the South
and elsewhere of selling milk
through vending machines, Dr. R.
F. Holland, Cornell University
dairy professor, said that Ld WL
| Leathers of Athens has a cup
' vending machine that comes up to
! standards set by health authorities,
and that this is the only such
machine in the nation approved
for use in the city of New York,
| Dr. Holland
| Dr. Holland 1s experimenting
| with the use of vending machines
to sell milk in his state and is
enthusiastic concerning results
thus far in his work. He says one
concern has 150 vending machines
operating in New York City, pro
ducing good results.
Dr. Holland is checking the use
of 12 machines to dispense milk
on the Cornell University camups,
and reports that man{ students
who eat a light breakfast or no
breakfast at all are good milk
customers during the morning
hours. He says chocolate milk out
sells regular milk, not only on
! the college campus but every
where, by about three to t{){l\e.
He Is experimenting with other
! flavors of milk and has found that
they have good acceptance. ‘When
other flavors are added, however,
they cut into sales of regular milk
and chocolate milk. Total sales do
ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1951,
FICHTING WAR
U. N. Warplanes
Cripple Enemy
Railroad System
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Nov. 14 —
(AP) — Allled warplanes today
swept North Korean skies without
challenge and dealt new blows to
‘the crippled Communist rail sys
tem.
Far East Air Forces (FEAF)
said B-26 light bombers destroyed
eight locomotives in pre-dawn
raids. Ten others were reported
destroyed in the 24 hours ended
at midnight Tuesday.
An Air Force spokesman said
he hesitated to claim a total of 18
since there might be some cver
lapping. But he said he felt cer
tain at least some of the eight
were in addition to the previous
10.
Allied fighter sweeps through
MIG alley in Northwest Korea be~
fore noon Wednesday failed to
turn up any Communist jets. It
was the fourth straight day the
Reds refused to tangle with U, N.
planes. 4
Reds Repulsed
U. N. ground forces Wednesday
threw back two company-sized
Red probing attacks on the West=
ern front and scattered a Com
munist platoon on the eastern
front.
An Eighth Army Wednesday
evening communique said there
was no other significant action
along the front.
Allied troops Tuesday beat back
two vicious Red attacks at oppo
site ends of the line.
Late Tuesday night the Reds
used about 10 tanks in a moon
light assault on U. N. forward po
sitions west of Chorwon on the
western front. Red infantrymen
followed under cover of mortar
and tank fire.
The Chinese Communists were
driven off after a 25-minute bat
tle. At least two of their tanks
were claimed destroyed by U. N.
armor.
The fight ended shortly after
midnight. By dawn Wednesday
the Communists had withdrawn
from the battlefield.
Observers said they saw Chi
nese “dragging away hundreds of
dead and wounded.”
An Allied spokesman said Chi~
nese stripped clothing off their
own and U. N. dead. He said, “It
looks like thev’re running out of
equipment and clothing.”
Eastern Front
On the eastern front:.Allied
troops counted 618 North Kcrean
bodies on the battlefield after
hurling back a coordinated attack
by five Red battalions.
FEAF warplanes mounted 895
sorties as skies cleared over Ko
rea Tuesday. Primary targets
were Red rail facilities.
An operational summary said
the sighting of locomotives were
among the %nghest of the war,
“The Communists are striving
so hard to put their rail lines in
shape they are: using many loco
motives to haul flat cars loaded
with steel rails to the areas affect
ed,” the Air Force spokesman
said.
Pilots also reported direct hits
on tunnels, rail lines, fuel dumps
and bridges.
PRINCE’S BIRTHDAY
LONDON, Nov. 14.—(AP)—DBri
tain’s best-loved little boy—royal
grandson Prince Charles—is hav=
ing a birthday today.
He's got stacks of presents—and
there’s only one thing to mar the
occasion., His parents can’t get
home in time for the big day.
Prince Charles is a sturdy, self
possessed three, just old enough
to really enjoy a birthday.
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not climb a great deal, he says.
Dr. Holland continues that vend
ing machines are serviced with
fresh milk daily, although the milk
remaing good for three eor four
days when stored under such low
temperatures as are found in the
machines.
Dr. Holland was in Ataens three
years ago when the meeting of the
‘American Dairy Science Associa
tion was held on t.e University
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COMIN’ AND GOIN’ — Marine replace
ments, bending under the burden of their
duffle bags, stream off a transport at a
Korean port. They move through lines of
Gl's waiting to be rotated back to the
United States. Oddly, there was little
wisecracking between the newcomers and
those waiting to leave, perhaps because
County Unit System Withstands
First State Supreme Court Test
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pleisto find a gold mine and then
rest on their ores.
University Stunt
Night Successful
University students and Athen
ians alike were amply entertained
last night at the 25th annual stunt
night, which was sponsored by the
Men’s Glee Club. A varied pro
gram was afforded with the Uni
versity group skits being inter
spersed with an array of vocalists
competing in the love song con
test.
Standout performances in the
love song contest were given by
Mary Jo Andrews and Margaret
Church who were awarded honor
able mention. The winner of the
contest was Cas Hoffman, who
sang “Some Enchanted Evening.”
Winning stunt of the evening,
presented by the Kappa Alpha
fraternity, - was entitled “Caesar
and Cleopatra.”
Second and third place, respec
tively, was awarded to Zeta Tau
Alpha for their skit entitled “Wo
men Soldiers Never Die” and Chi
Omega for their version of “An
Exert From Carmen.”
Entertaining the attendants at
the Stunt Night during the inter
mission and for a spot on the pro
gram was Ray Warren'’s Orches
tra.
Also giving stellar perfornrances
were Joan Yow and W. C. Owen,
who regaled the audience with
comic versions of two songs. The
initial song by Miss Yow and Mr.
Owen was “Row, Row, Row,”
which received such a tremendous
ovation that the duo was called
back to sing again, the second se
lection being “I Wanta’ Be Loved
By You.”
Directed by Byron Warner, the
Men’s Glee Club presented.a short,
varied program of vocal music,
The climax of the evening with
the exception of the judges’ decis
ion was the singing of the Georgia
Alma Mater by the Glee Club.
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Considerable cloudiness and
warm today with some chance
of showers, followed by partly
cloudy and cooler tenight and
Thursday. High today 74; low
tonight 532; high tomorrow 68,
Sun sets today 5:30, rises to
morrow 7:05.
GEORGI A — Consider~
able cloudiness and warm today
with scattered showers likely
over north portion; partly cleu
dy and mild tenight and Thurs
day; somewhat lower tempera
tures over west and north por
tions tonight.
the combat veterans were thinking of
what was in store for new arrivals, Mean
while, Red truce negotiators appeared to
be showing an eagerness to get a buffer
zone created and end the shooting was in
Korea.— (Photo by NEA-Acme Staff Cor
respondent Bill Purdom.)
ATLANTA, Nov 14 — (AP) —
Georgia’s County Unit System has
withstood its first test in the State
Supreme Court and is headed for
argument in the U. S. Supreme
The Georgia high court ruled
unanimously yesterday that a
party primary is not an election
and therefore the county unit
Democratic primary system viol
ates neither State nor Federal
constitutions.
The first test of the system to
reach this court was a damage
suit by W. M. Cox, Cherokee
County farmer, against James S.
Peters, chairman of the State De
mocratic committee and Mrs. Irish
Bliteh, former acting secretary of
the group.
Governor Herman Talmadge,
contacted at the Governors con
ference in Hot Springs, Ark., said
he was “delighted” at the decision.
Previous Attacks
He pointed to previous attacks
in the courts on the system and
said, “the veters of Georgia will
get a chance to put the law into
the State Constitution in the next
General Election. This will prevent
any future Governor or leftwinger
from junking the law, which pro
tects all Georgia counties.”
Federal Courts ruled in earlier
suits that the matter was out of
their jurisdiction.
Cox said he voted for M. E.
Thompson in 1950 but was damag
ed when his county’s unit votes
went to Herman Talmadge.
In writting the opinion, Jus
tice J. H. Hawkins said, “not a
single article, section or paragraph
of the (Georgia) constitution of
1945 dealiag with elections makes
any reference to a party primary.”
Hawkins added that “when a
political party in Georgia volun
tarily elected to exercise the op
tion of holding a primary for the
nomination of party candidates
such primary is not an ‘election’
within the meaning of that term
as used in the constitutional provi
sons and codesections relied on by
the plaintiff.”
Unit System 5
The unit system gives each
county two units for every re
presentative it has in the lower
House of the Legislature. All of
a county’s unit votes are cast for
the candidate getting a majority
vote within the county.
Twao suits were filed against
the validity of the County Unit
System in this latest attack. Ed
Methvin, weekly newspaper ed
itor of Eastman, Ga., filed the
second. Tl ;
Both Cox and Methvin lost
when their suits were fried in
Meriwether County Supreme
Court. The Supreme Court up
held the lower court in both cases.
However it wrote an opinion only
on the Cox case. The decision on
Methvin’s case merely noted that
it was controlled by the Cox case
opinion.
Regents Action
ATLANTA, Nov. 14. — (AP) —
The Georgia University Board of
Regents today postponed action on
the application of an Atlanta ne
gro to enter the University of
Georgia Law School.
The application of Horace Ward,
Atlanta, who has been trying for
nearly a year to enter the Uni
versity Law School, was referred
to the Regent's education commit
tee ‘“for a full study.”
Ward previously had been de
iied entrance by University Chan
cellor Harmon W. Caldwell. Com
mittee members did not indicate
when they would report back to
the board.
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Aves
C.B. §. Sponsors
Blood Marathon
Thursday will be the day that
CBS Radio network sponsors the
giant Bleod Marathon to solicit
pledges of blood for the preser
vation of American lives in the
event of an emergency. Arthur
Godfrey, popular radio star, will
have charge of the Marathon.
He will make a minute plea 2t
the end of each fifteen minute
program.
The slogan of the Blood Mara
thon day is “Pick up your phone
and pledge—Go to battle in a
bottle.” The CTBS affiliate for
this area, Station WGAU, will
carry the appeals and will
broadcast the teiephione number
of the local Red Cross office.
The Red Cross is cooperating
fully with the Blood Marathon
and will be prepared at all hours
of the day to accept pledges.
Search On For
Missing Plane -
BY RICHARD K. O'MALLEY
WIESBADEN, Germrany, Nov.
14.—(AP)—Heavy icing and thick
pea-soup clouds hampered the
aerial search today for a missing
U. 8. Air Force Flying Boxcar
feared down in the mountains of
southeast France with 36 Ameri
can military personnel aboard.
More than 60 planes, including
some from U. S. air bases in Eng
land, took off at dawn to look for
the big twin-engine C-82 trans
port which disappeared yesterday
while flying 30 passengers and a
crew of six from Frankfurt's
Rhine main airport to the big U. S.
supply base at Bordeaux.
Air Force officials said the pas
sengers were 29 enlisted airmen
and one soldier, while the crew
included six officers.
The airmen were being flown to
Bordeaux to organize a motor pool
and._ the soldier was returning
from a furlough in Germany.
The plane was last hzard fromr
shortly before noon yesterday,
over the Moulins area of central
France, 160 miles southwest of
Paris. Air Force officials feared
the big ship might have hit a
mountain peak.
Thick fog blanketed mountains
in that section yesterday. Aerial
searchers last night could find no
traces of the missing transport.
The search was concentrated on
a 40-mile-wide strip between Di
jon and Bordeaux, with some
planes scanning the sea off the
southwest French coast in case
the missing aircraft overshot Bor
deaux,
Two ground rescue crews, one
from Wiesbaden and the other
from Paris, were enroute by car
to the southern France region
where the plane may have crash
ed. —
At Clermont-Ferrand, near the
Mont Dore ski area where resi
dents said they heard what might
[have been a plane crash yester
day, French search parties said
ltoday they had found no trace of
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EDITION
Allies Insist
BY WILLIAM JORDEN
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 14,
—~— (AP) — The Communists
challenged the Allies today
to break off truce talks if the
United Nations want to keep
on fighting in Korea, a U. N.
spokesman reported.
An Allied ecommunigue
said it became “unmistak
ably clear” the Reds want
to end the fighting now—iun
the air, on the sea and on the
ground.
This was the first hint that the
Reds want to call off dameging
Allied Air and Naval attacks at
the time of buffer zone is esta
blished.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
spokesman for the U. N. command,
said the Reds conceded they con
template no changes once a cease
fire line i¢ established. Their pro
posal calls for alterations at the
time an armistice is reached if
there have been substantial ehan
ges in the battle line. Nuckols said
the Communist negotiators econ
ceded this was meaningless.
Chief Fear
This is precisely what the U. N.
command said it feared. It has
said repeatedly that fixing a buf
fer zone now, as the Communists
propose, would mean an immediste
cease-fire and an end to all shoot
ing, relieving the Reds of pressure
to agree on other armistice terms.
The Allies say acceptance of the
Red demand would mean an end
to hOfies for a truce settlement.
Nuckols said the new Communist
position was laid down in a mara
hon five hour and five minute
truce session Wednesday at Pan
munjom, Another meeti was
scheduled for 11 a. m. ’mug-:y
The Red stand, as ru}a‘ufiul by
the Allied spokesman, exactly
the opposite of their position as
reported by Communist newsmen
at the truce village and b{,ned
China's Peiping radio. o M
spokesmen say the Red propagan
da line is not reflected by what
:xegtot!atou say inside the truce
ent.
Peiping Radio
Peiping radio said:
“Our delegates made it clear
that after the defining of the mili
tary demarcation line, there would
of eourse be no ecarrying out of
the arrangement for a cease-fire
and withdrawal of both sides’
forces from the demilitarized zone
until after the signing of the arg.-
istice agreement.
“Moreover our Eroposul made
provision for the line of eontact
to be still subject to change after
the fixing of the military demar
cation line.”
U. N. and Red spokesmen said
the Communists would not con
sider other items of the armistice
agenda until there is agreement on
a buffer zone. Other points of the
armistice, which the U. N, wants
to discuss first, call for (1) ex
change of prisoners, (2) policing
the ceage-fire, and (3) recom
mendations to goverments on with
drawal of foreign troops from
Korea. "
Wednesday’s aneeting was car
ried on against & backdrop of artil
lery and machinegun fire on near
by hills. It was the longest gession
yvet held by the joint subcommit
tee, assigned the job of drafting a
recommendation of the buffer
zone.
Small Countries
Speak Up In UN
PARIS, Nov. 14 — (AP) —
Spokesmen from the smaller ceun
tries at the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly today urged the
great powers to compose their dif
ferences and avoid the dread de
struction of a third world war.
The most fervent and most di
rect appeal was made by Den
mark’s Foreign Minister Ole
Bjoern Kraft, who asked the lead
ers of the Soviet Union to gy
“the hand extended by the West.”
Speakers from Colombia, Uru
guay, and Paraguay pointed out
that small nations had to pay the
price of world war, although only
the big powers had the means to
start one. iR
Kraft told the Assembly: “Per
haps it is of no impertance what
a small country says and thinks,
but the small states more than wny
other feel the anxiety and dis
quiet of the present day.”
Therefore, he said, he “dared to
appeal” to the Kremlin to accept
the disarmament proposals sub
mitted by the United States, Bri
tain and France as “an adenquate
basis for work.”
The diplomatic leaders of the
Atlantic Pact—U. 8. Secrciuzy of
State Dean Acheson, British For
cign Secretariy Anthony Eden and
French Foreign Minister Robert
Shuman — were not present &=
Kraft spoke. <2
It was understood that they
were in their separate embassies
working on Atlantic Pact gb‘
lems for the North Atlantie Treaty
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