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to eight or nine different poeple, some of whom subsequently went into
Peiping and came out again; and we got one vague follow-up that was
nothing at all.
MR. RUSK:
And then the blanket telegram.
MR. NITZE:
And then the blanket telegram. Bert Marshall 's expedition up to Hong Kong
was well prior to May.
MR. RUSK:
Well, this may have gotten us away from our main story a bit; but I mention
this xa38th parallel, George, because I had the impression that the long,
drawn-out character of the subsequent truce negotiations turned in part
upon the injection of new ideas from our side into the truce negotiations.
MR. NITZE:
You may be right; it may have been along the line of roughly the 38th
parallel.
MR. RUSK:
The existing military line was one; the prisoner of war issue was another
one which was not in contemplation at the time that the--that Malik's
speech was made.
MR. NITZE:
That is my recollection, too, because I can remember working up a memoran]
(Dag?)
dum for Darke (Doc?) prior to the time that Darke (Dag?) got in touch with
you. I had taken the position that it seemed to me we ought to have our
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own views fairly clear, prior to the time that you undertook these dis-
us
and
cussions, and I still remember preparing this memorandum. But I know that
my
it did involve the 38th parallel; that that was what was in/mind at the
time.
VOICE:
?
may be correct on that.
MR. NITZE:
I think that what we subsequently decided, though, after discussing it
with you, was that you should not get yourself at all into any of the
substance of the thing; that all you should try to do was to establish
discussions on the truce.
MR. KENNAN:
Yes; but it is my recollection there had to be two or three points roughly
understood as to the basis on which we would talk. One of them was that,
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