PACIFIC CONFERENCE FORECAST
COLLECTIVE ACTION AGAINST COMMUNISM
(Rec. 0.30 a.m.) SEOUL, Feb. 28j The South Korean President, Syngman Rhee, to-day forecast that a Pacific conference to discuss economic co-operation would be called in the Philippines by President Quirino this month.
In an interview President Rhee urged that all Pacific nations must hasten collective action against Asiatic. Communist expansion. The U.S. Secretary of State (Mr Dean Acheson) had intimated that United States assistance in an Asian alliance would be forthcoming only if Asian countries took the initiative. President Rhee added that the Asian countries would have to show that they were just as strongly opposed to Communism as the signatories of the Atlantic Pact. “We whose lives are at stake should show a more active interest in our own safety,” he/declared
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 116, 1 March 1950, Page 5
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