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...speech on Korea five days earlier, Dean Acheson had quoted from 15 treaties made between 1918 and 1921 in which the Soviet Union had agreed to voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war. Vishinsky last week denounced them as having been "imposed on the young and weak Soviet state by its strong enemies," but he did not deny the voluntary repatriation principle as it applied in some of the treaties- e.g., the non-return of British soldiers, captured during the 1917 Civil War, who decided to stay in the new Soviet state. In Vishinsky's formal proposal, some French observers...
Only once did Acheson allow himself a lawyer's display of anger. As he told how the Reds refused to allow a neutral body to investigate their germ-warfare charges, he shook his finger and asked: "What do you think of people like that?" then muttered, almost to himself: "Unspeakable...
Russia's Andrei Vishinsky, just a few feet away on Acheson's left, listened intently on the new plastic earphones that look like a hearing aid and scribbled endlessly, his face impassive. Once, he leaned over to the Ukrainian delegate, jutted out his chin and laughed...
Deep Yearning. Summed up Acheson: "I ... wish to underline the fact that the U.N. . . . opposed by Communists, operating from outside of Korea, has limited the conflict to Korea itself. There have been many difficulties and vast provocations, but ... it is the intention of the U.N. command to continue that limitation" and "achieve an honest armistice." But, he warned, "the Assembly must come to some conclusion as to whether the aggressor really wants an armistice . . . We all share a deep yearning for ... peace. But we must not and we cannot buy peace at the price of honor. If the resistance must...
...audience burst into the loudest applause heard in the U.N. for several years. Acheson's speech apparently served to bring the waverers over to the U.S. side on the war-prisoner issue; it was not designed to do more at this point. Delegates rushed forward to congratulate Secretary Acheson. Australia's External Affairs Minister Richard Casey cried out: "One of the greatest speeches I ever listened to." The Netherlands' Daniel von Balluseck echoed: "Splendid!" Said Andrei Vishinsky: "No comment...