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...Malik tried another tack. He submitted a provisional agenda which blandly ignored the rule of taking up unfinished business left over from the preceding session (a U.S. resolution condemning North Korean aggression). Malik proposed two items of his own: the seating of Communist China in the U.N., and "peaceful settlement" in Korea. His terms for "peaceful settlement" were immediate cease-fire and withdrawal of U.N. troops-i.e., the surrender of all Korea to its Communist aggressors...
From the first, there has been a suspicion that the Kremlin's motive in starting the Korean war was to bring about a "general settlement" in Asia, especially including the recognition of Communist China. If Stalin gets what Nehru wants to give him, the Kremlin will have won a far bigger prize than South Korea...
...same time, governments must press individually and through the United Nations for a just settlement by conciliation and negotiation ... We must not regard the worldwide conflict as inevitable. We stand for a just peace under the rule of law, and must seek peace by expanding justice and by attempting to reconcile contending world powers. The Korean situation need not be the beginning of a general...
Stalin's Russia can move forward, sideways or backwards. One smart Russian move might be an offer of a "general" settlement in which the Communists would move back of the 38th parallel in Korea, and the U.S. would recognize Communist China and accept Mao Tse-tung's nominee for the United Nations. That would be tantamount to handing Asia over to Communism...
Died. Ella Florence Underwood, 100, last surviving member of the Oneida Community, a financially successful communal settlement (Oneida Silver) which practiced both promiscuity within its own group and stirpiculture; of a heart attack; near Oneida...