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    "ocrText": "3/14/54; Reel 1, Track 1 ( Page 6\nMR. JESSUP:\nGeorge, do youremember whether there was any parallel to the discussions\non Germany when they were trying to hold up our moves in Bonn while we\nnegotiated about the blockade? Was there anything equivalent in asking\nus to hold up on Japan while we negotiated on Korea?\nMR. KENNAN:\nNo; there was nothing equivalent to that; and al l I can remember is that\nthere was s omething, I believe, about the prisoners. There was something\nabout the military situation, but I cannot remember what it was. I tried\nso hard not to have any recollection of it on account of the high security\nvalue that when I got it of f to Matthews I simply dropped the matter from\nmy mind.\nMR. RUSK:\nGeorge, I think there is one point there that would be particularly inter-\nesting, if you could possibly remember it--we may have to wait for the\nrecord--and that is whether there was discussion of the 38th parallel at\nthat time. I mention that because a good deal of light might be thrown\non the later course of the truce talks, if it could be established\nwhether or not the Russians assumed at that time that any truce would be\nROUNAN\non the basis of the 38th parallel. May I just finish the question? We\nthe %\nhad not systematically formulated our view that the existing military\nU.S.\nany\nline must be the basis for any such armistice, because the talks that\nwe had had between the State Department and the Chairman of the Joint\nChiefs of Staff at the time of your talks had not gone into that kind of\ndetail. And, a.s I recall it, there was nothing in the conversations\nwhich would lead the Russians to believe that we were talking about any-\nthing other than this trick 38th parallel as such. Now, that leads me\nto go back to pick up another point that arose at the time of the adop-\ntion of the 38th parallel. The 38th parallel was actually developed as\na military line, as these notes on the point have brought out, but what\nwas not known at the time that the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee\nfinally agreed to offering the 38th parallel to the Russians at the time"
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