Telegram from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Ambassador Warren Austin
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NLT (KOREA/SD) 334
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OUTGOING TELEGRAM
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Charge Department
Department of State
7 P. M.
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CITY NATIGNAL RECORDS DEPARTMENT
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E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
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State Dept. Guidelines
F.R.U.U.U.S. WIFT.I Pace 37
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On January 8 the President received the following personal
message from Atlee:
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Dear Mr. President,
I am greatly disturbed by present developments in the
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Far East, and feel that I should open my mind to you in order
that there may be no possibility of misunderstanding between
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our two Governments.
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My colleagues and I have been basing their policy on
the assumptions that we should fight it out in Korea and try
to localise the conflict. This was my understanding of the
common position which we reached together in Washington in
December. It is on these assumptions, and on the assumption
that if we could hold a line and build up a position of
strength in Korea the Chinese might then be in a mood to
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respond to a suggestion for a negotiated settlement, that
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His Majesty's Government have been pressing that the possi-
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bility for a negotiation with China should be kept open.
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