RE: Korean-War:UN Peace Keeping

[Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net>]

At 12:18 AM 5/12/02 +0930, Martin Dunne wrote:
>
>Thanks, but none of these are contemporary (i.e. from 1950) commentators.
>Neither is Forgotten War, from what I recall.
>What I am looking for is anyone in 1950- politician, military, journalist,
>whatever- who noticed that the concept of monolithic communism was not borne
>out by the action of boycotting the Security Council.
>

I misunderstood you.  Your original statement was:

>>>I have never read or heard of any contemporary commentator pointing out
>the
>>>... how shall I put it... unusual step of removing themselves from the
>>>Security Council in time to miss vetoing Korean War resolutions.

Hence, I thought you were questioning the Soviet boycott itself.  This was
a rich time in political commentary in both the US and UK and a review of
TIME, US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, or THE ECONOMIST for the era should yield
rich rewards.  And you might consider reading Bill Mauldin's UP FRONT IN
KOREA or TR Fehrenbach's THIS KIND OF WAR (a history of the Korean War) and
THIS KIND OF PEACE (an analysis of the UN), all of which are contemporary
with the War.

Marc


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