The seventh meeting of the Rubber Study Group was held in Brussels from May 2 to 5, 1950 to review the world rubber situation and consider means of expanding consumption and improvement of packing and marketing systems. The meeting was attended by delegations from Australia, Belgium, the United Kingdom colonies, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Liberia, the Netherlands, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States, the United States of Indonesia, and by observers from the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Rubber Development Committee.

As Secretary-General, it is my firm belief that a new and great effort must be attempted to end the so-called “cold war” and to set the world once more on a road that will offer greater hope of lasting peace.

Recalling the finding of the General Assembly in its resolution of 21 October 1949 that the Government of the Republic of Korea is a lawfully established Government ”having effective control and juridiction over that part of Korea where the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea was able to observe and consult and in which the great majority of the people of Korea reside; and that this Government is based on elections which were a valid expression of the free will of the electorate of that part of Korea and which were observed by the Temporary Commission; and that this is the only such Government in Korea”

In Korea the government forces, which were armed to prevent border raids and to preserve internal security, were attacked by invading forces from North Korea. The Security Council of theUnited Nations called upon the invading troops to cease hostilities and to withdraw to the 38thparallel. This they have not done, but, on the contrary, have pressed the attack. The Security Council called upon all members of the United Nations to render every assistance to the United Nations in the execution of this resolution. In these circumstances, I have ordered United States air and sea forces to give the Korean Government troops cover and support. The attack upon Korea makes it plain beyond all doubt that communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer independent nations, and will now use armed invasion and war.