Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLTCNaval Aide) 167 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE the WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED 12065, Sec. 3-402 1982 February 5, 1951 State DEB Dept. E.O. Guidelines, NLT, Date March 9435 6, TOP E T By SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS CHINA In a further conversation between Ambassador Henderson in New Delhi and the Secretary General of the Indian Foreign Office concerning the Indian delegate's statement in the General Assembly to the effect that his Government had been informed on the highest authority that once there was a condemnatory resolution on China there would be no hope of peaceful settlement, Henderson was informed that the message from Chou En-Lai contained the statement that "if any attempt is made to combine condemnation of the Chinese with a proposal for a conference, China could not accept it". Henderson again told the Secretary General that the US was endeavoring sincerely to understand the nature of Indian foreign policy and policy aims but that it had some difficulty in determining what means India would propose to use to check aggression in Asia if not by present UN procedures. He was told in reply that it was difficult for India to make a general statement and that the means which India would favor for checking aggression would depend upon the form and character of the aggression and upon the effect which such means might have upon world peace. The Indian official added that India's proposals for dealing with Communist China's intervention in Korea had been set forth in the 12-power draft resolution. USSR Embassy Moscow concurs in the view that if we are to have any appreciable hope of achievement of a united Germany oriented toward the West, the consolidation of Europe including at least West Germany and the creation of a strong Western defense are conditions precedent to such unification. The Embassy believes that presentation of a concrete plan of wide scope and obviously addressed toward relaxation of the principal points of tension should go far to re- tain the initiative which has been ours since the formation of NATO and to counter European "neutralist" sentiment. As for the nature of such a plan, the idea of establishing a defense ceiling is attractive. While agreeing that limiting proposals to creation of a parity of forces in Germany would be inadvisable and inadequate to meet the broader con- siderations of the present situation, the Embassy is apprehensive of a T-O.P