... ordered General Douglas MacArthur to provide whatever assistance necessary to repel this invasion. General MacArthur obliged and in no time the American was appointed head of UN forces. One might wonder how the UN came to pass such an act, especially when communist Russia, part of the UN, has the power of veto. Surely if they allowed the act to pass then it wasn't simply a matter of anti-communism? Well, the Russians naively decided to boycott the UN in protest of the UN not accepting the now Red Chinese Government as the 'official' Chinese government, and not allowing China into the UN. This meant that being absent they couldn't veto the Security Council's decision, and other countries, benefiting from US aid for post-war reconstruction, had no alliance or sympathies to the Russians or their communist system, and therefore didn't veto either. It was believed that the US involvement in Korea ...

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