Telegram from Warren Austin to Secretary of State Dean Acheson

INCOMING TELEGRAM Department of State FE 7 SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION Action Control: 1852 Rec'd: UNA FROM;New York November 6, 1952 Info 1:53 a.m. TO: Secretary of State NO: DELGA 131, November 6, 12:20 a.m. PRIORITY Re Korea Gross and staff members US GA del met today with Madame Pandit and Krishna Menon of Indian del for exchange of views on GA action on Korea. Indian reps welcomed opportunity for discussion, indicating they themselves wld have taken initiative if we had not done so. Following points were brought out by Krishna Menon, who is working on Korea for Indian del. 1. He does not really agree with Palar's approach as reflected in Indonesian draft resolution (DELGA 115). He evinced open dissatisfaction with the tactics which had been followed by Palar in launching the project without advance consultations. The first time he had become aware of it was when he read about it in the NEW YORK TIMES. Certainly the Indians had not put Palar up to it; on the contrary, they did not like it. 2. Drishna Menon thought most serious difficulty confronting us was proposal for post-armistice commission suggested in Soviet and Indonesian drafts. He thought such a commission impractical. Any attempt to set up commission along lines proposed by Palar would in a sense substitute unwieldy body comparable to the first committee for an orderly type of conference. Menon's suggestion for dealing with this problem would be to include in a resolution, which he has apparently not yet drafted, a provision for the establishment of a. committee composed of the present president of the General Assembly and the two previous GA presidents (Entezam and Padillo Nervo). The function of this group would be to facilitate through its good offices the establishment after an armistice of the conference envisaged in Article 60 of the tentative armistice agreement. Menon frankly stated that he regarded this committee as a means of paying lip-service to ideas already current and as a means of countering Palar's proposal for a committee. 3. Menon expressed the view on POW question that the POW'S should not be pushed or .pulled in their repatriation. Both he and Madame Pandit thoroughly supported the principle of nonforcible repatriation. Menon agreed with Gross' comment that it was highly important in any draft resolution on this subject to avoid ambiguity, vague formulas and loose ends which would provide REPRODUCTION FROM THIS SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION COPY, IF CLASSIFIED, IS PROHIBITED -83 16-67338-1 GPO