Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Naval Aidetso OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 Guidelines, March 6, 1982 September 5, 1950 State Dept. DEB NLT, Date 6-7-8) By TOP s E € R SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS EUROPE Our Embassies in London and Paris have been instructed to inform Foreign Ministers Bevin and Schuman that the US has been following closely suggestions for the creation of a unified force for the defense of Europe, and has noted that: 1) if such a force were developed it would be necessary to establish a supreme commander with a combined staff, making it possible to integrate German units into the force without creation of a German national army; and 2) larger participation by the US in numbers of troops in Europe and in the direction of the unified force might be required. We hope to discuss these matters with Bevin and Schuman at the Foreign Ministers' meeting in New York, and, in connection with them, we tentatively believe that the actual appoint- ment of a supreme commander should be delayed until there are for- - ces in being to justify his appointment, although the decision that such a post should be created could be made now. Our Embassies are to make it clear that greater US participation in European defense, along the lines which a unified European force contemplates, involves greater commitments than we have heretofore been willing to consider, and whether or not we actually make such commitments will be deter- - mined by the willingness of the Europeans to make greater efforts in their own behalf. Without such greater endeavor by the Europeans, we could not succeed in building collective strength in time to defend western Europe in event of aggression. INDIA Ambassador Henderson in New Delhi has dis- - cussed with Indian Minister of External Affairs Bajpai the problem of China, pointing out to Bajpai that the US is not irrevocably committed to support or oppose any particular political group in that country. Our primary concern is that other nations act in accord with the purposes and principles set down in the United T