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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Vyshinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich, 1883-1954
Korean War, 1950-1953
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NCT/NAVAR AIDE) 305
OFFICE OF
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
DECLASSIFIED
WASHINGTON
Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982,
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
Degember 29, 1951
State By DEB NLT, Date 9-6-8; TOP
SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
KOREA
In reply to our request for comments on a proposed
statement for use in the event of an armistice in Korea,
the French Foreign Office has given our Embassy in Paris a draft state- -
ment representing the views of the French Government. The French draft
represents the following differences from our proposed statement: 1) the
French believe that a statement of this nature which refers to an armistice
agreement should not contain references to the ultimate political settle-
ment which the UN envisages; and 2) the French believe that our final
paragraph and particularly the final sentence thereof (regarding the probable
impossibility of confining hostilities within the frontiers of Korea in the
event of renewed aggression) involves a threat which would risk troubling
seriously the atmosphere of subsequent negotiations. With regard to the
latter point and to the French wording "We affirm that any other act of
aggression challenging again the principles of the UN would find us again
united and prompt to resist", a Foreign Office spokesman made clear that
the French desired to be able to interpret their proposed wording to include
aggression against Indochina.
HUNGARY
In commenting on the development of the case of the US
flyers in Hungary our Charge in Budapest notes that in
conversations on the incident with his diplomatic colleagues, Western press
representatives and other contacts, nearly all have stressed the sudden and
sharp change in the situation between the Vishinsky speech of December 19,
the belligerent Hungarian note of December 21 and the trial on December 23.
Vishinsky's remarks were interpreted as forecasting a trial for espionage
with a probable death sentence. The sudden and unexpected announcement
of the trial and more particularly, the relatively innocuous charge and light
fine immediately raised the question of what had happened to cause the Soviet--
and incidentally, the Hungarian- - Government to back down so hurriedly.
Several persons have expressed to our Charge the opinion that this is the
worst diplomatic defeat suffered by the Russians in a long period.
TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMA TION