'U.N. Korean Intervention Successful' --- Reischauer

The Korean War has been a success for the United Nations because "it" stopped blatant aggression," Edwin D. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, said last night.

Reischauer speaking before an H.L.U. forum in the Lowell Junior Common Room, directly contradicted William Henry Chamberlin, editor of the "New Leader." Chamberlin had said that the war in Korea "exploded the whole idea of collective security that is the basis of the U.N."

The third member of the panel, Alappat S. Menon 2G, stressed the necessity of keeping the peace in Asia. "A large scale war will open Asia to Communism, whoever wins the military decision."

Chamberlin and Reischauer also conflicted over disposition of anti-Communist North Korean prisoners. Reischauer felt that the Communists misunderstood the prisoners' wishes. "To them, all common people were on their side. This violent refusal to return is most embarrassing to the Reds, and a potent propaganda weapon for us."

The New Leader editor, who spent several years in Moscow as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, termed South Korean President, Rhee's freeing of anti-Red prisoners a "humanitarian act. I only wish he could have let them all go."

All speakers agreed that the chances for a successfully negotiated peace in Korea are slight, but Menon and Reischauer agreed that the conference should be broadened.

"By including all Asia in the discussion, more chances for compromise will present themselves," Reischauer explained. He continued, "Limiting ourselves to Koreaties our hands, for there is little room for compromise there. We might even use a seat in the U.N. as a bargaining point."

Menon expressed the Asiatic feeling that somehow the West had discriminated against China by refusing to admit them into the General Assembly.

Chamberlin was diametrically opposed to this view, and said, "We cannot in good conscience admit the men who have tortured and killed so many humans."