together with promotion of exports, and to the efficient management of government enterprise.

11. Import taxes shall not be imposed on relief and rehabilitation supplies received under the United Nations programme.

12. The authorities in Korea should maintain such records and make such reports on the receipt, distribution and use of relief and rehabilitation supplies as may be determined by the Agent General after consultation with them.

13. All authorities in Korea shall freely permit the personnel of the United Nations to supervise the distribution of relief and rehabilitation supplies, including the examination of all storage and distribution facilities as well as records.

14. The personnel of the United Nations shall be accorded within Korea the privileges, immunities and facilities necessary for the fulfilment of their function.

15. All authorities in Korea and the Secretary-General shall use their best efforts to inform the people of Korea of the sources and purposes of the contributions of funds, supplies and services.

16. In determining Korea's needs for relief and rehabilitation, in drawing up programmes and plans, and in implementing such programmes and plans, the Agency created to administer the relief and rehabilitation programme should consult with and utilize, to the greatest extent feasible, the services of Korean authorities.

The General Assembly

B

1. Requests the President to appoint a Negotiating Committee composed of seven or more members for the purpose of consulting, as soon as possible during the current session of the General Assembly, with Member and non-member States as to the amounts which governments may be willing to contribute towards the financing of the programme for the relief and rehabilitation of Korea;1

2. Authorizes the Negotiating Committee to adopt procedures best suited to the accomplishment of its task, bearing in mind:

(a) The need for securing the maximum contribution in cash; (b) The desirability of ensuring that any contribution in kind is of a nature which meets the requirements of the contemplated programmes; and

(c) The degree of assistance which can be rendered by specialized agencies, non-member States and other contributors;

3. Requests that, as soon as the Negotiating Committee has ascertained the extent to which Member States are willing to make contributions, all delegations be notified accordingly by the SecretaryGeneral in order that they may consult with their governments;

1 In accordance with the terms of the above resolution, the President of the General Assembly, at the 318th plenary meeting on 4 December 1950, announced that he had appointed a Negotiating Committee, composed of the following States Members: Canada, Egypt, France, India, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, and Uruguay.

4. Decides that, as soon as the Negotiating Committee has completed its work, the Secretary-General shall, at the Committee's request, arrange, during the current session of the General Assembly, an appropriate meeting of Member and non-member States at which Members may commit themselves to their national contributions and the contributions of non-members may be made known.

31. LABELING AS AGGRESSION THE CHINESE COMMUNIST INTERVENTION IN KOREA: Statement by the United States Representative at the United Nations Before the United Nations General Assembly, December 6, 1950 2

The General Committee has recommended that the General Assembly might include on its agenda an item entitled: Intervention of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in Korea. I speak in support of the recommendation of the General Committee.

My Government has joined with the Governments of Cuba, Ecuador, France, Norway, and the United Kingdom in requesting that the General Assembly consider this item as an important and urgent question. No delegate here can have any doubt as to just how important and how urgent this question is.

The United Nations forces who are carrying out in Korea the task assigned to them by the Security Council are under attack by the armed forces of the Peiping regime. Little more than a month ago, it seemed that the United Nations forces would soon complete their assigned task. Then came the intervention of the Chinese Communist forces.

The Security Council immediately took up this new threat to the peace. On November 10 the same Governments which are now asking the Assembly to consider this item introduced into the Security Council a resolution designed to hasten the end of the conflict, to keep it localized in Korea, and to assure states and authorities on the other side of Korea's northern frontier that their legitimate interests would be protected.*

The Security Council also invited a representative of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China to attend its meetings on this question. The Council deferred its vote on the joint draft resolution until this representative arrived. Members of the Council then saw for themselves that the representative declined to answer questions relating to his government's actions in Korea. He said that the Chinese soldiers fighting there were volunteers. He also said that the Chinese People's Republic considered there

1 Warren R. Austin.

2 Department of State Bulletin, Dec. 18, 1950, pp. 989-990.
3 For subsequent Res. 498 (V), Feb. 1, 1951, see infra, doc. 42.
4 U.N. doc. S/1894, Nov. 10, 1950; supra, doc. 28.

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were no grounds for hindering the dispatch to Korea of volunteers.1

The Security Council voted on the joint draft resolution on November 30. The resolution was not adopted, because of the negative vote of one of the permanent members, the Soviet Union.

It seems clear to the six sponsors of the joint draft resolution that no fruitful action can be expected, at this time, from the Security Council in view of this attitude of one of the permanent members.

Under these circumstances, the Governments which sponsored that resolution believe that the question of Communist intervention in Korea should be considered by the General Assembly as an important and urgent matter.

The proposed agenda item puts before this Assembly one of the greatest questions faced by the United Nations. It may involve the whole future of the United Nations. It may involve the peace of the world. All the processes of the United Nations should be invoked in an effort to put an end to the threat to world peace.

My Government believes that world opinion should be brought to bear on this question and that the full weight of that opinion should be made clear to the authorities of Peiping. Full and frank discussions by the General Assembly can best bring light upon the real nature of Chinese Communist intervention in Korea, its portent for the future of peace, the gravity with which it is viewed by the nations of the world, and how the processes of the United Nations can bring about a solution.

Asking the General Assembly to consider this question, at this time, is the symbol of our belief in the United Nations and in its ability to maintain international peace.

My Government, therefore, urges the General Assembly to include this item on its agenda, to proceed quickly and soberly to consider the situation, and to make the necessary recommendations.

32. ESTABLISHMENT OF A GROUP FOR A CEASE-FIRE IN KOREA: Resolution 384 (V) of the United Nations General Assembly, December 14, 1950 2

The General Assembly,

Viewing with grave concern the situation in the Far East,

Anxious that immediate steps should be taken to prevent the conflict in Korea spreading to other areas and to put an end to the fighting in Korea itself, and that further steps should then be taken for a peaceful settlement of existing issues in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations,

1 For the text of the remarks by the Chinese Communist representative, see U.N. doc. S/PV. 527, Nov. 28, 1950.

2U. N. General Assembly Official Records, Fifth Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/1775), p. 15.

Requests the President of the General Assembly to constitute a group of three persons, including himself, to determine the basis on which a satisfactory cease-fire in Korea can be arranged and to make recommendations to the General Assembly as soon as possible.'

33. CONTROL OF ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND COMMUNIST CHINA AND NORTH KOREA: Statement by the Department of State, December 16, 1950 2

The United States Government is taking measures today to place under control all Chinese Communist assets within United States jurisdiction and is issuing regulations to prohibit ships of United States registry from calling at Chinese Communist ports until further notice as steps necessary to accomplish the effective control of the economic relationships between the United States and Communist China envisaged by the institution, on December 3, 1950, of the requirement that no exports would be permitted to Communist China from the United States without validated export licenses.3

This action has been forced upon us by the intervention of Chinese Communist military forces in Korea. In view of the commitment of Chinese resources in this unprovoked aggressive activity, this Government cannot permit the Chinese Communists to have access to United States supplies or assets in the United States, the use of which under present circumstances clearly runs counter to the interests and objectives of the United Nations in the Far Eastern crisis.

It is not our desire that this be a permanent restriction. As long as a willful group of Chinese Communist leaders are willing to subvert their national interests and the welfare of the Chinese people to the designs of international Communist imperialism, it is impossible for this Government to act otherwise. If the Chinese Communists choose to withdraw their forces of aggression and act in conformity with United Nations principles, this Government will be prepared promptly to consider removing restrictions and restoring normal trade relations.

The same controls also are being applied to North Korean assets at this time. This is purely an administrative measure since North Korean assets are negligible.

The Departments of Commerce and Treasury are issuing the necessary regulations. Copies of these will be available from them.

1 At the 325th plenary meeting of the General Assembly, Dec. 14, 1950, the Assembly's President (Lester B. Pearson of Canada) announced that, in addition to himself, he had appointed Sir Benegal Rau of India and Nasrollah Entezam of Iran to the cease-fire group.

2 Department of State Bulletin, Dec. 25, 1950, p. 1004. 315 Fed. Reg. 9040 ff.

34. DESIGNATION OF KOREA AS A COMBAT ZONE AS OF JUNE 27, 1950: Executive Order 10195, December 20, 1950 1

1

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 22 (b) (13) of the Internal Revenue Code,2 as amended by section 202 (a) of the Revenue Act of 1950, approved September 23, 1950 (Public Law 814, 81st Congress),3 there is hereby designated, for the purposes of paragraph (13) of section 22 (b) of the Internal Revenue Code, as an area in which armed forces of the United States have engaged in combat: Korea, including the waters adjacent thereto within the followingdescribed limits: From a point at Lat. 39°30′ N, Long. 122°45′ E southward to Lat. 33° N, Long. 122°45′ E; thence eastward to Lat. 33° N, Long. 127°55' E; thence northeastward to Lat. 37°05′ N, Long. 133° E; thence northward to Lat. 40°40′ N, Long. 133° E; thence northwestward to a point on the east coast of Korea at the juncture of Korea with the U.S.S.R.

The date of the commencing of combatant activities in such area is hereby designated as June 27, 1950.

35. REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP ON A CEASEFIRE IN KOREA TO THE FIRST COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, JANUARY 2, 1951 *

1. On 14 December 1950 the General Assembly adopted the following resolution [384 (V)] which had been sponsored by thirteen Asian Powers:

"The General Assembly,

"Viewing with grave concern the situation in the Far East,

"Anxious that immediate steps should be taken to prevent the conflict in Korea spreading to other areas and to put an end to the fighting in Korea itself, and that further steps should then be taken for a peaceful settlement of existing issues in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations,

"Requests the President of the General Assembly to constitute & group of three persons, including himself, to determine the basis on which a satisfactory cease-fire in Korea can be arranged and to make recommendations to the General Assembly as soon as possible." 5

2. In pursuance of the resolution, the President forthwith constituted a group consisting of Mr. L. B. Pearson of Canada, Sir Benegal N. Rau of India and himself, and announced this fact to 115 Fed. Reg. 9177; Department of State Bulletin, Jan. 22, 1951, p. 149.

2 56 Stat. 814.

3 64 Stat. 927-928.

U.N. General Assembly, Official Records, Fifth Session, Annexes, Agenda Item 76, pp. 6-8. The bracketed insertion in the first paragraph appears in the Official Records.

Ibid., Supplement No. 20 (A/1775), p. 15.