The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 21, 1953, Page 7

LAST-MINUTE DELAYS MAKE HOPES OF INTERVI By FORREST EDWARDS letter from an Allied explanation prisoners ee ee ee ae te ee ee SNES tony, went Americans oven Mt ait of She sein PANMUNJOM A. snarl of|team. Ik Gen. KS. Teimegyaor 23. per coat to go. joners’ demands were met. last-minute delays today all but Indian chairman of the commis-! Compound de dee, whch oars SUES to ek Gee Be Hull said he would discuss the| The letter addressed to the pris- snuffed out Allied hopes for inter-|sion, said he would get the Ameri prisoners were drawn Monday, ap--/ture. problem Tuesday with Gen. Thi-/oners was to have been read aloud: views with 22 Americans who 40s’ answer tomorrow. peared unusually docile. The pris-| “The thing that we have stood mayya. bo — during face-to-face inter- ge with the Communists as) Meanwhile, the Reds won back oners agreed readily to permit in-ifor always has been freedom of Chances for interviews with the| Yew" oe fe chalked up their |24 of 250 Chinese captives as inter-jterviews with just half each day|choice,” he said. j22 Americans, 1 Briton and 77} The NI IRC Monday approved its Dest sare to. date |views were resumed after a 4-day|—something no other compound] He added that he flew to Korea|South Koreans dwindled further|“oments except for two sentences Gen. Joh E, Hull, U.S. Far East stalemate. jhas done. Ths second 209 prisceses irom his Tokyo headquarters pri-|Monday when the repatriation co sarong Bh ney age commander, indicated that the Al-| This not only was S the greatest|will go before Red explainers ae siti 06 Gieress plans for hand-|™i8sion put off until Tuesday is. cccaiddalain Whad thak i moet Ws ven up hope that any nu:nber of prisoners the Commu- ‘ppd cussion of a long protest from the! jdelivered by a team of Allied ex- home. Communist refusal to interview ind prisoners. ‘Americans have| Mists have won back in a single} entire 500-man compounds i 2|Chinese and Koreans scheduled for jplainers—if the prisoners agree. mn The Americans and Briton re- iday but was almost triple te paar from Indian custody Jan. |One officer said there was almost ity to) {Single da wendy the ie! fo Indian eustody ¥'*¢- A few prisoners Laney and spat| he Communists have insisted| ae refuse to attend until ‘hey Farmers are only about 12 per |The previous records were setiat the persuaders today, but there|that the prisoners be kept in neu-isre permitted to make counter. jcent of the U. S. population. ly chance of con-|Oct. 31 when 21 of 459 North Ko- |was none of the violence which trl ee en bomee cotter "explanations. The commission has} soners before the reans—4.6 per cent—elected to re-\marked earlier, explgnation ses- lence decides their fate, but Hull| ednesday deadline ap-|turn to Communist rule. The best] sous said they will be eligible for free- [refused to permit this. through delivery of a|previous record with Chinese pris-| Some of the prisoners walked | |dom “‘one minute after midnight) No interviews can be aaa T addressed to each|oners was far below this—10 bry res the tents. with their minds ob-| fon Jan. 22.” ‘after midnight Dec. 23-90 days triumph back out of 430 interviewed Oct.!viously made up, but others ap-| The Far East commander said/after the prisoners were turned) — ‘The Neutral Nations Repatria-|17, @ percentage of only 2.4. |peared to be convinced during long|he hopes to transfer the Korean'over tc neutral custody. Allied offi- tion Commission ruled that the} In eight days of ‘nterviews the|and quiet interviews. \prisoners to South Korea as quick-'cers said it was unlikely there! POWs must agree to accept the|Communists have talked to 2,681 Gen. Hull told newsmen in Seoul ly as possible and move anti-Red would be time to talk with the| a caucees “ONCE UPO! 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