Korea a Sore Spot in Far Eastern Politics By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNl' Service, 1616 Eje Street, N. W? Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. - "Reveal the secret clauses In the Yalta agree ment and the American people will demand a free and inde pendent Korea." That ia what you hear from the earnest group of Koreans and Americans who will be waving a tearful but hope ful farewell to their beloved leader and friend ?the venerable Dr. Syngman Berthage Rhee?as he de parts for "the land of the morning calm" for the second time since his exile 40 years ago. Dr. Rhee's fol lowers consider him the legitimate head of the provisional Korean gov ernment set up by those leaders for tunate enough to escape when Japan dealt Korea its final, crushing blow in 1805. Presidents of the United States since Theodore Roosevelt's time, state department and other govern ment officials have been consistent ly sympathetic and stubbornly un cooperative with the effort of this unflagging patriot to obtain recogni tion of his country. They did not frown on his return to Korea when it was "liberated" by the defeat of Japan. They put no obstacles in the way of his choice as head of the group which set up a provisional government of Korea. They permit ted that group to send an observer to the U. N. but when Dr. Rhee returned from Korea in December of last year his efforts to make his voice heard before the international body were blocked by the state de partment ukase, "No official stand ing." Today Korea is a nation bisected by the S8th parallel. The North, under Russian control, Is separated by the Asiatic model of the Iron Curtain and no real Korea govern ment exists in the Southern half. Syngman Rhee Want* to Tell Secret* ?till administered by the U. S. mili tary government. This is due. Dr. Rhee says, to the same lack of of ficial sanction from the state depart ment which the aging doctor has sought since Pearl Harbor. "All we ask is that we be allowed to hold elections to set up in the American zone of Korea a national government just as the Russians have set up what they call a demo cratic government' In their zone. We only ask that the United States do for us what they have already done for Japan. "The other liberated countries have been given this privilege. We neVer fought against the Allies. For more than 40 years are have carried underground work against our Jap aocn oppressors." Native* Advanced in Democratic Processes I asked it he thought the people were ready for a democratic gov ernment. , He pauaed a moment and said: "You may be surprised, as I was, to learn how familiar the Koreans ?re arith the democratic system." The Japanese, it seems, when they made their various levies upon the Koreans found they had to deal arith a system that had already bean set up. based on the democrat ic choice of a leader for a group of perhaps 20 homes which, in turn, chose their representatives for larg er groups. Dr. Rhee said he found his people were much more familiar with these processes than be thought they could be even though he had followed their activities so closely through all these years. Then Dr. Rhee went on to explain that with cooperation of the military gov ernment, at least five attempts had beena made to set up a national gov ernment; that each time the Com munists had blocked it by refusing to join and because of the directives under which the military govern ment was forced to operate?no gov ernment was permitted in which the Communists did not participate. "They (the Communists) claim they have 20,000 members in the southern area?what right have 20, 000, If there are that many (which I doubt), to interfere with the rights of 18 million Koreans in the south ern zone?" asks Dr. Rhee. In the secret agreement at Yalta, Dr. Rhee asserts: "President Roosevelt agreed that Manchuria and Northern Korea be placed in the zone of the Soviets. This was con trary to the spirit of the Atlantic Charter and the other agreements up to that time. When the American people realize this, I am sure senti ment will develop that will make it possible for Korea to become a na tion again. I am ? going back to Korea with that hope." ? ? ? Senate Bathed in Mutual Admiration There is a distinctive brand of po litical humor often buried in that remarkable and largely unread (and frequently turgid) document, the Congressional Record. The Republican recommendation that senators meet in formal ses sion only three times a week, Mon day, Wednesday and Friday, de voting the other two days to com mittee work recently touched off a typical exchange between Republi cans and Democrats on the senate floor. Both parties conjured lightly with the names of founding fathers. Majority Leader WaUace White of Maine began by opining that an ex ception to the Monday-Wednesday- I Friday rule should perhaps be made for Lincoln's birthday (which falls on Wednesday this year) so that Republican senators could, as he put it, "have opportunity to go to their homes and elsewhere to make their customary, and I think, prop er, speeches on Lincoln's birthday." He added that provision, too, might be made for Washington's birthday. Senator White then recalled that the Democrats usually have either a Jackson Day or Jefferson Day dinner, for which they might want to be excused from the senate. Minority Leader Barkley was agreeable. Said he: "So far as Lin coln Day absenteeism is concerned, ve have no objection to any deviation Trom this program (the MWF *ule) that would permit our friends ? get back to Lincoln." The Record records as follows: Mr. Barkley: I think the closer the party gets back to Lincoln the nearer It will come to Jefferson. 1 think there will be no difficulty about arrang ing for Washington's birthday and for Lincoln's birthday. So far as Jackson is coocerned, the Democrats have always celebrated Jackson Day on the 8th of January, today, which is the day of the Battle of New Orleans. Mr. White: I think the senator from Kentucky is celebrating it now. Mr. Barkley: But in April I think it is planned to have a num ber of Jefferson Day celebra tions throughout the country and I am sure that Jefferson and Lincoln and Washington and Jackson will all be main tabled upon an equal tooting. Mr. Tobey: Td like to say tor the benefit of my friend the sena tor from Kentucky that I hope his statement which I shall designate as Exhibit A, is evi dence that the great party to which he belongs, of Which he nai been majority leader in the senate for so many years ?nd so successfully will be i bomd to return to the prin ciples and teachings and ten ets of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Barkley: I will say to the senator that we have never de parted from them, because Jefferson was the outstanding liberal of his day, and we have always adhered to the liberal policies which were advocated by the original liberal, Thom as Jefferson, which were not altogether dissimilar to the liberality of the founder of the Republican party. Abraham Lincoln. BARBS . . . by Baukhagt The White House seems to have no servant problem. That may be the reason so man; families wish to> live in the mansion ? ? ? 1 Demand for Mexico's minerals bm fallen off so they are malting a drive far tourists. If they can't tall thW mtowd. they caa ,tt?e? for MANAGEMENT smd lase on Spitsbergen ? offensive iction against the United States. From it rocket bombs probably rculd hit New York. The United States happened to earn of the Russian - Norwegian naneuvers because we are a party o a 1920 treaty with Norway, Eng and and Russia, by which Spitzber [en is not to be used as a military lase. In order to militarize the is and, therefore, it is necessary to :hange the treaty. _ The disturbing thing about the Spitsbergen maneuver, however, is he date on which the Russians be fan to move for militarization. Vhen the state department began >robing the matter, they found that he Russians had first approached he Norwegian government in 1944 -while the war was still on. And hey continued high-pressuring Nor vay during 1946, the last year of he war, and up until the present. What causes U. S. concern is that he Russians appeared to be maneu vering for Atlantic bases aimed igainst the United States even at a ime when we were pouring lend ease into Russia. In this connec ion, U. S. diplomats can't help re nembering the secret minutes of he Molotov - Ribbentrop conver sions in late 1940?shortly before iitler attacked Russia?when Rus sia offered to come into the war igainst the Allies if it got the Dar lanelles, half the BalUkns, the three 'astern provinces of Turkey, Iran ind Iraq. ? ? ? TRUMAN SHAKES HANDS One ordeal of every Presi dent is baking hands at official receptions. Recently President Truman stood in line wBile 1,400 members of the diplomatic corps, plus their wives, filed by to greet him. Truman considers receptions for congress or the army and b*d enough, bnt he espe cially dreads diplomatic recep tions where he cannot always catch foreign names. After shaking hands so fast he barely was able to glimpse faces, the President looked np to see retiring White House as sistant Eddie Locke, with his wife. "Why, Eddie!" Tiuman said laughingly. "Thank God here's someone whose name I can pro nounce." "Sh-h-b," said Mrs. Truman. ? ? ? UNFAILING GOOD HUMOR Every White House caller these lays comes out of the inner sanc irni remarking on how well and ligh - spirited President Truman ooks. Expecting him to appear lowed and discouraged by the veight of his office, they remark: "He doesn't seem to have a care n the world." Even during the middle of the :oal strike, when Truman cabinet Tiembers were worried sick over the economic consequences to the :ountry, White House callers came Jut to report that the President seemed to be in fine fettle. ?One unofficial explanation is that since November, the President feels' that the Republicans have removed part of the responsibility of leader ship from his shoulders. No matter what he does, it can't be right in *ye8J,1there'0re. he might as veil be philosophical about it. Another explanation is that, since November, Truman feels he is no under any obligaton to carry Jn the Roosevelt New Deal pro gram. The November balloting showed that the majority of the peo ' CJhange' argue white House advisers, so Truman iaa a mandate to desert the Roose velt program for his own. ? ? ? HMMIE BYRNES' 'WHISKERS' RetWag Secretary ef gtate Jlmmie Byrnes has had so many tough diplomatic battles that even in his spare time he can't forget he's not tussling with Russians. The other morning, Byrnes took his wire-haired terrier "Whiiiker," out for a stroU g,," Jag which the dog started hark Si- KSS:" ? ? ? KERRY -GO-ROUND , President Truman has turned town ambassador to Brazil Bill ?wley's bid to be assistant sec re ary of state for air. ??? lenate secretary, Leslie Biffle. will liaison man between the idministratkm and GOP congres doual leaders. 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