Editorial Note
The United Nations General Assembly took up the Korean question at its 292nd meeting on October 6 from 10:45 a. m. to 1:10 p. m.; for the record, see U.N. document A/PV.292. The Soviet Representative (Malik) proposed that the two Koreas be invited to participate in the discussions, but the proposal was rejected by a vote of 41 to 6, with 6 abstentions. This was the only voting action taken at the meeting which was devoted principally to discussion of the eight-power draft resolution (A/C.1/574) forwarded to the General Assembly with the First Committee’s Report (A/1422) and the five-power resolution (A/C.1/567) which had been defeated in the First Committee but reintroduced into the General Assembly (A/1426). The United Kingdom Representative (Younger) recommended Thailand as the seventh country for the proposed Commission on Korea. Ambassador Austin spoke in favor of the eight-power resolution.