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Some members of the House were fed up at the failure of the United Nations to brand Red China an aggressor in Korea, and Ohio's Republican John M. Vorys decided to do something about it. As a senior Foreign Affairs Committeeman, Vorys got in touch with House Majority Leader John McCormack and Minority Leader Joe Martin and hammered out all the details on a bipartisan basis...
...hours before the U.N. was scheduled to meet on the China issue, John McCormack rose to present a resolution to the House. It was blunt and to the point: "The United Nations should immediately act and declare the Chinese Communist authorities an aggressor in Korea...
Byrnes urged the U.N. to 1) declare China an aggressor, and 2) authorize an air and sea blockade of China. If it did not, U.S. forces should be withdrawn from Korea. He firmly supported the President's policy of sending troops to Western Europe. "The people of America do not want to sit on the sidelines and permit Stalin to take control of all Europe," said the governor...
...hope that sprang in the United Nations following yesterday's conciliatory message from Peiping was a strong argument against the United States proposal to brand Communist chins as an aggressor. If the purpose of the U.S. proposal was to push the Chinese into a more tractable attitude than they had previously shown in their dealings with the United Nations, then it has already succeeded. But if its purpose was to end all negotiations between Peiping and the U.N. until the Chinese had publicly repented and withdrawn their troops from Korea, then it was doomed right from the start...
...divisions to it on a proportionate basisabout one for every 3½ European divisions. (If the Administration did not seek congressional approval in a few days, said Douglas, he would bring the issue to a showdown vote himself.) ¶ Press for U.N. condemnation of China as an aggressor. ¶ Begin a naval blockade of the Chinese coast. ¶ "Make no deal in Korea in order to get out . . . If we leave, let it be an honorable withdrawal under gunfire because of overwhelming odds." ¶ "Try to promote democracy, land reform and an increase in production and living standards...