RUSSIA HEATEDLY CHALLENGED

Chronicle (Levin), 7 December 1948, Page 5

RUSSIA HEATEDLY CHALLENGED

c Mr. Fraser Leads U.N. Attack Over North Korea Received Tuesday, 10.10 a.m. PARIS, December 6. Russia was challenged heatedly in the United Nations today to show that Soviet-occupied North Korea has a free Government. Mr. Peter Fraser (New Zealand) ,led the attack on the Russian-sponsored regime, which shut out United Nations' observers when they tried to- supervise the elections there earlie'r this year. The observers were admitted to Americanoccupied Southern Korea.

Mr. Fraser told the Political Committee that the Russian bloc attacks on the methods used in the elections in the American zone were "clap-trap." * Thumpmg - ths~ committee table, Mr. Fraser said: "If there is a free Government in North Korea, produce it." He recalled that the United Nations Commissio'n was barrdd from entering Sovietoccupied Nofthern Korea to supervise the elections. He called upon the Russians to show that the Northern'Korfea Government Was a defnocratic Government and not an autocratic Government or dictatofship. Mr. .Manuilsky (Soviet Ukraine) and Mr. K. V. JSisselev (White Russia) declared that the Southern Korea elections were illegal and

held under a wave of terror. Mr. Fraser replied: "It is no use giving these flamboyant speeches. There is hot one scfap of evidence. What we want is proof. The United States cannot be expecfed to lie down in Southern Korea and take1 it. Why attack Scfuthern Korea? Why attack the United States?" Mr. Fraser asked the Russian g'roup to tell who saw tlie elections in Northe'rn KOrea and who observed them. "Who knows whether they were not puppets pulled by a string." He Said he was most concerned over whether the Government of Nofthern Korea would accept the United Nations decisions or treat; them with contempt. If the United Nations agree to the pf actice of j frustration of its decisions, it had' better get otit of btisihess..