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We have informed our Ambassador in Seoul that we
believe it inadvisable for him and members of his staff voluntarily to
become hostages of the North Korean forces, and we have directed him
to leave Seoul to join the South Korean Government before departure
becomes impossible.
We have also expressed our surprise to the Yugoslav
Ambassador here over the Yugoslav abstention from the major portion
of the Security Council's Korean resolution. We pointed out to the
Ambassador that there is no question that the North Koreans invaded the
south without provocation, and we stated the vital importance of prompt
and effective Security Council action in such cases. We have directed
our Ambassador in Belgrade urgently to reiterate these considerations
to the Yugoslav Foreign Office.
In conversations with our Ambassadors in Paris and
The Hague, Dutch Foreign Minister Stikker and a ranking French
Foreign Office official have stressed the need for drastic US action in
Korea. Both officials believe that the USSR does not want war and would
back down if strong and immediate counteractions were taken. Stikker
stressed that the consequences should the US "permit" South Korea to
fall would be disastrous for all Asia, which the western world could
"write off forever. " The French Foreign Office official likewise stated
that the loss of Korea would "irretrievably impair " western prestige,
and he likened the present situation to Hitler's tactics in 1938.
FIRUMAN
s SERVICE
E
SDORLT
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