CRITICISM BY EISENHOWER

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27397, 9 July 1954, Page 11

CRITICISM BY EISENHOWER

U.S. Opposition To Peking WASHINGTON, July 7. President Eisenhower delivered a scorching denunciation of Communist China today, and said he was unalterably opposed to admitting the Peking regime to the United Nations. At the same time he told a press conference that proposals to take the United States out of the United Nations if Communist China should be admitted required very careful study. He said he was not ready to say that course should be taken. Mr Eisenhower expressed doubt that Congress would give serious consideration to the passage of legislation for an automatic United States withdrawal. Shortly after the President gave his views, Senator William Knowland, of California, chief sponsor of the automatic withdrawal proposal, told reporters that Congress would probably agree with Mr Eisenhower, and wait until after the United Nations decided on the Chinese issue before acting to withdraw United States funds and re-

presentatives. Senator Knowland said he had no doubt that Congress would act swiftly to take the United States out of the United Nations if the Peking delegates were seated in the international organisation. “Still at War” Commenting at his press conference that the Chinese Communists were even now at war with the United Nations, Mr Eisenhower said: “How could the United States, as a self-respecting nation, say that the Peking regime should be admitted to the world organisation?” The rulers in Communist China were today at war with the United Nations, he added, having been charged as aggressors by the General Assembly in a declaration which had never been modified. The Communists were occupying Noithem Korea, had backed up the enslavement. of additional peoples in Indo-Chind. and were guilty of the worst possible**diplomatic conduct. A moral question, therefore, was ininvolved, said Mr Eisenhower, since the United Nations was created to be a world force for justice, fairness and right in international affairs. The President said he could not see how any impartial country could vote for Communist China’s entry into the United Nations. But if other countries over-rode American opposition, he told a questioner. the United States Government would have to study carefullv whether the cause of peace and decency would best be served by withdrawal. Nothing except a long and convincing record of deeds would convince Americans that the Communist Chinese were entitled to admission, he said.