oo HI bad 1 2 il cll wee il | a ii th" i il SS NA 5) == SS ee ee eathinessaltaresus 2) * oveaesass Friday, July 14, 1950 CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE > TIM BUCK United Nations commission, the’ U.S. plan to set up a sepa- rate government was put into effect and the Syngman Rhee regime was established. You, Sir, did not conceal the Canadian government’s disquiet at the whole proceeding. On behalf of the government. you put it on record in the following words: ° “It appears that, on receipt of this information, ‘the acting chairman of the commission in Seoul (the chairman had.not yet returned from Lake Success) informed the United States commanding general in, South Korea, in the name of the commission that it would accept the advice of the interim committee. An announcement regarding the date for elections was then made. Our representative on the commission, Doctor Patterson, was not consulted in regard, to this matter. There was no meeting of the commission before the announcement was made.” (Hansard). Canada disassociated herself from the setting up of a separate government. Canada’s representative on the UN temporary commission was instructed “to maintain the position taken at Lake Success, namely, that the commis- sion should not accept the advice given to it in the United States resolution or associate itself with the conduct of elections in South Korea only.” Furthermore, Canada’s representative was instructed that “if the commission did not support the Canadian view on this matter, he was to state that he could not participate further in its activities until he had received instructions from his government.” (Hansard). The contrast.between the ,attitude maintained by the government of the day in February, 1948, and the attitude adopted by your government today is striking. Then Cana- da opposed the United States: plans in South Korea on the joint grounds that the action proposed was wrong both in principle and constitutionally, and that endorsement of it in the United Nations interim committee did not make it legal. All the conditions of principle and law upon which the government based Canada’s stand in February, 1948, are duplicated today, both in Korea and in the United Nations organization. The one striking difference between the two situations is that, whereas the action that Canada opposed in 1948 only laid the ground for intensified conflict, the action upon which Canada has to take a stand today is war. It started as war between Koreans. The propa- ganda by which efforts were made to delude the Canadian people into believing that the Soviet Union was involved has now been exposed as unscrupulous lies without founda-. tion in fact. The elaborate pretences that it is a United Nations war cannot conceal its real character; it is unilateral United States military action in Korea, as was acknowledged by the U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, on Friday, June 30. As such, it is aggressive imperialist intervention in Korea. President Truman has linked U.S. aggression against China and the Viet Nam people’s government with his intervention, therefore there is a grave danger that it might become a large-scale war of imperialist aggression against the strivings for national independence of the thousand million people of Asia. U.S. intervention is definitely against the strivings of the majority ,of all Korea’s people. The democratic orga- nizations of both north and south Korea are united in a national alliance of 77 different organizations with a combined membership of ten million — a third of all the populations of both North and South Korea. When the people of South Korea elected only 48 of the candidates representing the Syngman Rhee government and 162 op- position candidates in the recent general elections, that alliance, the United Democratic Fatherland Front, proposed the holding of new nation-wide gereral elections to re- unite North and South Korea under one freely elected government. A great all-inclusive national convention to consider that proposal had been scheduled to convene on July 10. The fact that the convention would have been held in North Konea is due entirely to the fact that Syng- man Rhee issued an ‘edict against the convention and an- nounced that any person who attended it would be dealt with as a traitor. i On the basis of the foregoing, Mir. Prime Minister. I ‘submit that there is even more vital and urgent need for Canada to take an independent ‘stand, to challenge United States actions and the manner in which the UN is being committed to them, than was the case in February, 1948. Instead of committing Canada “to support of United States military intervention in Korea.” Canada should stand now, as in February, 1948, against interference in Korea and against unconstitutional action to involve the United Na- The training was easy indicates. Yankee officers spent months training a South Korean puppet army to handle U.S. guns and equipment. Rhee’s army was in fine shape. But as soon as the fighting began, South Koreans showed no desire to die on behalf of American imperialism, Thousands surrendered to the North Korean troops without a show of resistance. Others, who stayed to fight and retreated with the Yankees, found the going pretty tough, as picture of the sad looking soldier carrying his G.I. voots in his hand They boasted that Victoria and Nanaimo. An audience of 350 Vancouver citizens, after hearing Morgan outline the facts of the Korean crisis, passed a strongly worded resolution to be sent to Prime Minister St. Laurent demanding that Canada reverse its present policy of support for U.S. inter- vention. ~ Murphy, also’ heard — speakers Steve ‘Endicott and Viola Bianco reveal facts on the Korean situ- ation which have been “blacked tions in such interference. Instead of rushing Canadian naval units to the Far East to be at the disposal of a ‘United States commander, in action against Korean people Canada should insist upon United Nations mediation he certainly Canada should take a stand for observance of the ee of the i Se Nations when dealing with a propo- sal to commit that organizatio i ? i SPADE. espe “a8 nee n of active war against half _ Mr. Prime Minister: in the name of the Labor-Progres- sive Party, on behalf of those millions of Cariadians who want Canada to act to prevent the U.S. intervention in Korea from developing into a third world war, voicing the hopes of that great majority of Canadians who do not want our country to be involved in war against the peoples | Of Asian ed appeal to you to return to the position that Canada maintained with honor in February, 1948. The political essentials of that position in the situation prevail- ing today would be: @ No involvement of Canadian forces in Korea; @ Stand by the United Nations Charter; re-establish the legality of the Security Council by seating the repre- sentative of the People’s Government of China. Back to the unanimity rule in the Security ‘Council. Hands off Korea. ‘ .