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Threat to world peace

Cloaking its action
With the authority of a
UN decision — taken in
the absence of two of the
world’s four great pow-
ers, the Soviet Union and

‘China — after U.S. .war-

Ships and planes had al-
ready been ordered into
action, the Truman ad-
ministration has commit-
ted the U.S. to direct
military intervention

against the people of

Korea.

The Syngman Rhee regime,
which the U.S: is striving to im-
Pose on the southern part of

orea, has already been repudi-
ated by the Korean people them-
selves. Last month, it could not
even win a “fixed”’ election, from
Waich. genuine democratic parties
Were excluded, boycotted by 60
Percent of the people in South
Korea,

The Korean Democratic .Peo-
ple’s. Republic, against which

merican planes and warships are
now in action, has the overwhelm-
ing support of the Korean people,
both in the north and south. Head-
ed by Kim II Sen, the government
1s composed equally of represent-
atives of north and south, elected
in a national election in June,
1948, at which 99.98 percent of
the people in the north and 77.52
Percent of the people®in the south
voted. Its provisional capital, pend-
ing unification of the country, 1s
Pyongyang, and this week the
capital was moved to Seoul fol-
lowing capture of that city by the
People’s Republic.

These are the facts that clearly
establish the Truman administra-
tion’s action as one of direct mil-
itary intervention to prevent the
People in the southern part of

orea from joining with the peo-
ple in the north to unify their
country under a government of
their own choosing. It is to support

‘of this intervention, in direct viola-

tion of the spirit of the UN Char-
ter, that the St. Laurent govern-
ment would commit the ‘Canadian
People, increasing the threat to
World peace in pursuit of a policy
that has as its end denying the
People of Korea the right to de-
termine their own affairs.

The Soviet government _ has
Charged that the UN decision,

nS OFF KOREA

Prelude is Yankee intervention

Before the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, John Foster Dulles, U.S. state department (dark suit), Ameri-
can advisers and members of puppet dictator Syngman Rhee’s general staff, gathered at the 38th parallel which
divides North and South Korea, to survey the terrain in preparation for launching their attack against the

Korean people.

ed an offensive which quickly turned into a rout. :
ention to prevent the collapse of Rhee’s regime.

interv

ratifying a unilateral U.S. decision
already acted’ upon, was taken il-
legally, in violation of the UN
Charter, since the Soviet Union
and the People’s Republic of
China were not present and the
rump Chiang Kai-shek - regime,
which can no longer even pretend
to speak for China, nevertheless
hina’s vote.
of bluntly terms the U.S.
guilty of ‘4 direct act of aggres-
sion against the Korean Democrat-
ic People’s Republic.
Pravda stated: ““The American
government, with its inherent dis-
regard of international law, is

Continued on back page
See KOREA

PEACE CONGRESS STATEMENT:

Picture was taken ‘June 20. The following weekend Yankee-trained South Korean forces open-
On Tuesday this week President Triiman ordered American

Admit China to UN to

reach solution in Korea

TORONTO
The following statement on the
Korean situation was released here
by the Canadian Peace Congress
by its national secretary, Miss
Mary Jennison:
“We of the Canadian Peace
Congress feel that the Korean
crisis is not an occasion. for war,

that peace can be preserved by ap-
plying the letter and spirit of the
United Nations charter which was
designed precisely to prevent such
situations as this flaring into world
war.

“The national council of the
Canadian Peace Congress believes
that the Korean crisis and the in-

terests of the Korean people can
be dealt with properly only if the

‘new government of China is seat-

ed in the UN security council.
That would mean that China and
the Soviet Union, two of the five
permanént members of the council
Continued on back page
See CONGRESS