Telegram from Ambassador Warren Austin to Secretary of State Dean Acheson

KNCOMING TELEGRAM Department of State RETURN TO RE 30 TELEGRAPH BRANCH SECRET 23-21 Action Control: 8554 UNA Rec'd: April 17, 1951 FROM: New York 8:01 p.m. Info TO: Secretary of State SS G NO: 1416, April 17, 5:52 p.m. E L EUR AMC subcomite meeting. NEA FE After Lacoste (France) took chair, Gross urged subcomite DCR to agree and recommend at once to AMC that first priority is additional economic measures and that AMC should promptly commence consideration of such measures, looking toward earli- est GA res covering economic measures, some form of organi- zation to review and report information from UN members and possibly make its own comments. Selective embargo pro- posed by US would be upon atomic energy materials, arms, ammunition and implements of war, petroleum and items useful in production of arms, ammunition and implements of war. He emphasized necessity of reaching agreement as soon as possible, on series of recommendations as follows: 1. Selective embargo, 2. Establishment of UN comite to receive reports and with reviewing and reporting function, 3. To ask members to determine which of their exports fall under general formula and to undertake not to negate effective- ness of embargoes by other nations. We felt that such an indication by UN of its determination to continue to oppose aggression, might have moral and political impact on Chi Comms, as factor inducing them to seek cease fire and to reconsider plans for offensive. Jebb (UK) stated it continued to be policy of his govern- ment to emphasize "efforts for negotiated settlement with Peiping". In this regard, he cited north Korean "peace feeler on which he did not place much hope but felt it might indicate something. Therefore, he felt there should be no report from AMC until it was "abundantly clear" that no hope of negotiated settlement exists. If nevertheless it were decided to press ahead, only sensible procedure in his view was some sort of selective embargo such as Gross had outlined. Basically, however, UK attitude is that taking additional measures now would make Chi Comms less willing to negotiate. He intimated, however, his government might be open nd SECRET REPRODUCTION OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITES