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orders are to be kept secret
until after the voting next Tues
day. The story added that Van
Fleet’s sucessor in Korea will be
Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, now
Army deputy chief of staff for
operation and administration.
The letter, dated Oct. 10, was
addressed to Maj. Gen. Orlando
C. Mood, Van Fleet’s former chief
of staff now in Washington, with
a copy to Mrs. Van Fleet. The
general’s wife gave her copy to
Eisenhower.
Van Fleet wrote that the South
Korean forces are now in “apple
pie” order but that he had been
unable thus far to win approval
of his plan to double their
strength to 20 divisions.
Earlier, the Army and Defense
Departments and Clark’s Tokyo
headquarters denied receiving any
orders from the White House to
relieve Van Fleet. Neither Clark
nor Van Fleet, who was question
ed at Seoul, would comment.
Vishinsky Bid For
Korea Peace Talks
Old Stuff To U.S.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., .(/P)
— Russia’s Andrei Y. Vishinsky
| asked the United Nations Assem
bly Wednesday night to form an
international commission to seek
peace in Korea and unification of
that war-torn country. American
sources at the U. N. generally
viewed the proposal as the same
old Soviet stuff.
On the commission proposed by
Vishinsky would be “the parties
directly concerned and other
states, including states not partic
ipating in the war in Korea.”
Vishinsky’s speech made no
mention of just which countries
he would include in these . cate
gories, but his resolutioP would
open the door for the Soviet
Union to become directly involved.
The Russians so far have abstained
lrom a direct, public role in the
Korean conflict, though, U. N.
negotiators at Panmunjom have
already rejected Chinese and Kor
ean Communist suggestions that
the Soviets serve on a body of
“neutral” nations to supervise any
truce reached.
FARMERS RESIST RED TAX
HONG KONG, {/P)~One press
dispatch to an independent news
paper says 400 farmers have been
arrested in South China for re
fusing to pay summer grain taxes.
The Communists blame the
famine conditions on the weather.
Press accounts say farmers were
refusing to pay the grain taxes
because they would not have
enough rice left over to carry
them through the year.
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The new proposal came at the
end of a fiery speech in which
Vishinsky, for three hours and 39
minutes, lashed back at the Am
erican stand outlined last Friday
by U.S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson.
Acbeson commented Wednes
day night to reporters that the
Soviet foreign minister said
“nothing we have not heard a
thousand times before, at Pan
munjom and here.”
Another U.S. spokesman added
that turning the Korean armistice
problem over to the commission
proposed by Vishinsky “would
mean starting the negotiations all
over again.”
“We already have agreed on
every point of an armistice ex
cept the question of the repatria
tion of prisoners of war,” the
spokesman said. “We don’t want
to start back at the beginning to
work on points already agreed on
and we don’t want to take the
negotiations out of Panmunjom
where they belong.”
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Democrat Fired
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Committee has been fired for al- j
legedly helping negotiate a nine !
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Democratic Chairman Stephen
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Westbrook, a research and devel- j
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2 has served as liaison man be- !
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House Speaker Sam Rayburn in
the Democratic presidential cam
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phone from Dallas that there was
“nothing wrong” with the con
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shortly before midnight Wednes
day as a result of a copyrighted
story by Bert Andrews in the New
York Herald Tribune which called
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Jess Larson, who signed the
contract for the government in
his' capacity as head of the
Defense Materials Procurement
Agency, said Thursday Westbrook
signed the $9,000,000 deal for
tungsten between a Portugese
company and his agency.
The contract, in effect since
Sept. 11, was cancelled by the
government Monday for the an
nounced reason that the company
had violated terms by going into
the open market for tungsten to
sell the U.S. instead of keeping
its pledge to supply the metal
from mines it claimed to control.
Larson said if the contract had
not been cancelled already on
these grounds “we may have can
celled the contract anyway had
we known” of Westbrook’s rela
tionship with the deal.
Mitchell said Westbrook ex
plained he had opened negotia
tions before he was employed by
the national committee and that
he thought terms of the govern
ment contract had been settled
before he began his New York
work.
But Westbrook was dismissed,
Mitchell said, because “I do not
think any exception can be made
to the policy that an employe of
the committee must not engage
in business with the government.”
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