Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, Korea and China, Volume VII, Part 1

Editorial Note

On June 28, the United States Government forwarded to the United Nations Secretary-General the 22d report from the United Nations Command in Korea covering the period May 16–31; the text is in United Nations document S/2217. In it, General Ridgway categorically dismissed as “wholly groundless and manifestly absurd” Communist charges by the North Korean authorities that the United Nations forces were employing bacteriological warfare against them (S/2142/Rev.1).