Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED August 7, 1951 E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 SE C Re E By DEB NTT, Date 4-5-84 SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS KOREA Ambassador Muccio has suggested to the De- - partment that we may have a good opportunity to take the propaganda initiative away from the Communists in North Korea by getting the United Nations to offer its assistance in relief and rehabili- tation in North Korea, if and when an armistice is achieved. The move would present the Communists with the dilemma of having to choose be- tween allowing a major United Nations influence in North Korea and dem- onstrating by their refusal that they care more about control than the wel- fare of the public. Muccio favors having this matter raised in the UN by a "neutral' country such as India, with our enthusiastic seconding. He believes that this would in no way prejudice the Kaesong talks which are confined to strictly military matters. INDIA Ambassador Henderson asked Secretary Gen- eral Bajpai of the Foreign Office yesterday about reports that a four-power Asiatic conference (India, Burma, Pakis- - tan, Indonesia) would be held in Rangoon to discuss the Japanese treaty. Bajpai replied in confidence that when the Burmese Foreign Minister visited New Delhi recently he had suggested to Nehru that such a confer- - ence might be held. Nehru said he would not summon such a conference lest the US obtain the impression India was endeavoring to influence other Asiatic powers not to sign the agreement. Subsequently the Indonesian Ambassador in New Delhi (also accredited to Rangoon) discussed the matter with the Burmese Foreign Minister with a view to holding the conference in Rangoon, but, said Bajpai, India has received no invitation to such a conference and does not know officially that it is being called. INDONESIA Upon his arrival in Djakarta, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht sent a note to Ambassador Cochranre- - questing an appointment. Cochran received him yesterday evening. The talk was cordial and Cochran gave him such information as he could with a view to being helpful in his study of the Indonesian exchange question, ad- vising Schacht at the same time to "keep off political problems". Schacht said his first impression in Djakarta was one of lack of force on the part SEGRE