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Perhaps the clearest answer to the question of truce v. right came from South Korea's Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. You Chan Yang. Facing reporters on NBC's Meet the Press television show this week, Dr. Yang expressed a truth that the U.N. has not yet accepted. Said he: "If the [Communists] are talking about peace it is not as you and I are talking about peace. When we talk about peace we're talking about real peace. When the Communists are talking about peace they're talking about something else; they're talking...
...Should the U.S. accept a Korean truce opposed by the South Koreans...
...part of what Senate Majority Leader Taft wrote about the United Nations and its role in Korea. Said he: "I believe we might as well forget the United Nations as far as the Korean war is concerned. I think we should do our best now to negotiate this truce, and if we fail, then let England and our other allies know that we are withdrawing from all further peace negotiations in Korea . . . It seems to me that from the beginning we should have insisted on a general peace negotiation with China, including a unification of Korea under free Koreans...
...once make this present truce, no matter what we put in the agreement about further negotiations for a united Korea, it is no more likely to occur than a united Germany . . . I believe we might as well abandon any idea of working with the United Nations in the East and reserve to ourselves a completely free hand...
Specifically, South Korea's aging (78) President was objecting to the new U.N. truce plan, submitted to the Communists in a secret session last week. But his real complaint was as old as the truce talks themselves. Rhee's foreign minister, Pyun Yung Tai, summed it up: "We cannot accept any premise that leaves Korea divided and makes North Korea a Chinese colony." For decades Patriot Rhee and his followers have dreamed of, planned, suffered torture and exile for an independent and unified Korea. Now, a few miles away from his wistaria-covered terrace, U.N. negotiators were bargaining...