Typed Copy of Telegram from the United Kingdom Delegation

138 COPY Santary saw. 11/13/52 SECRET FOREIGN OFFICE DECLASSIFIED 354 STATE DEPT. LTR. 5-5-73 364 Paris, Tokyo and Project NLT 82-4 Saving to Washington. By NLT- HL NARS, Date 6-20-13 Following from Secretary of State. U.K. Delegation telegram No. 759 (November 9th: Korea]. . Minister of State, Sir G. Jebb and I had meeting this morning at which Mr. Acheson, Mr. Gross, M. Schuman, M. Hoppenot (Permanent French Delegate to the United Nations), Mr. Pearson, Sir P. Spender and Mr. Webb were present, to discuss next steps in the General Assembly on Korea. 2. I referred to various tentative drafts of an Indian resolution which had been circulated unofficially. None of these in my view met the essential requirements that principle of non-forcible repatriation must be clearly stated. Moreover we could not endorse any resolution entailing risk of deadlock after signature of armistice agreement; in that situation we should have lost means of pressure represented by our air superiority and we should still have failed to secure return of our own prisoners of war. This was a situation which We had always been determined to avoid. 3. Mr. Acheson said that he could not accept any resolution which made no provision for disposal of Communist prisoners of war refusing repatriation or which in other ways might allow undue pressure to be brought to bear upon such prisoners. Mr. Acheson said that he had spoken on these lines to Mr. Krishna Menon. 4. Mr. Pearson said he had some sympathy with Mr. Krishna Menon's efforts. Mr. Pearson started from the assumption that it was most important to get an armistice if we could, and also that it would be to our advantage to get the Indians to put forward a resolution which recognised the principle of non-forcible repatriation and which we could accept even if the Chinese turned it down. He personally was not