Editorial Note
The United Nations Security Council held its 494th meeting on September 1 from 3 to 7:10 p. m., with Sir Gladwyn Jebb of the United Kingdom replacing Yakov Malik of the Soviet Union as President. Mr. Malik objected to the President’s ruling to seat the representative of the Republic of Korea, but Sir Gladwyn’s ruling was upheld by a vote of 9 (including the United States) in favor to 1 (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) against, with 1 (United Kingdom) [Page 694] abstention. A Soviet draft resolution (U.N. document S/1751) to seat both Korean regimes then failed by a vote of 2 (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Yugoslavia) in favor to 8 (including the United States) opposed, with 1 member (Egypt) not participating in the voting. For the record, see U.N. document S/PV.494.
At 10 p. m. on September 1, President Truman delivered a radio and television address to the American people on the situation in Korea; for the text, see Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States; Harry S. Truman, 1950, page 609. Mr. Truman set forth an eight-point program on United States policy in the Far East and stated that there would be neither appeasement nor preventive war. He declared that the Korean conflict would not spread except by action of the Communist countries. He indicated that the United States would mobilize 3 million or more men for the present crisis. The United States, he said, had no territorial aspirations in Formosa.