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SECRET
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May 2, 1952
MEMORANDUM OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
Participants: Mr. Short
Mr. Acheson
Mr. Short telephoned the Secretary today and referred
to Syngman Rhee's letter of March 21 to President Truman
and to the Secretary's memorandum to the President
recommending that there be no reply. Mr. Short said that
the President thought that the letter should have a reply.
The President had said he thought Rhee's letter was a very
good letter and deserved a reply and that the reply should be
sent at an early date. Mr. Short asked if the Secretary
thought there was a possibility of a non-committal reply.
there
The Secretary said he thought 1$ could be, but the
troublesome thing was the question Rhee raised of the
possibility of a security treaty. The Secretary pointed out
that we could not enter into this and it would be difficult
to write a letter which would ignore it or brush it off.
We could not give him encouragement. The Secretary said
that in answer to the President's feeling that it would be
discourteous not to reply, that any letter sent to Rhee would
be a reply to the Rhee's reply to the President's previous
letter, and that this might involve a long correspondence
which would be difficult to shut off.
Mr. Short then suggested that maybe some sort of
message could be gotten informally through Muccio to Rhee
giving him the President's greetings and saying that the
President was pleased with Rhee's letter. Mr. Acheson said
he thought this was a good suggestion and he would try to have
Mr. Allison draft something to be submitted to the President
when Mr. Acheson sees him on Monday.
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5. ONATIONAL AND
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Dept. of State letter, 7-3-74
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