Telegram from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Department of State

INCOMING TELEGRAM Department of State SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION 24-21 x Action UNA Control: 2796 FROM: New York Rec'd: November 7, 1952 Info 5:25 p.m. SS TO: Secretary of State G EUR NO: DELGA 144, November 6, 4:42 p.m. NEA FE L PRIORITY P I Re: Korea The following are the latest developments and present status of Menon's proposals: 1. He has elaborated and refined them in the form of 10 points which wld be embodied in a res and which as points he presented orally to a Commonwealth mtg Thurs a.m. he now plans to submit a formal res on Mon Nov 10, and to speak in Comite 1 Tues p.m. 2. Menon is being actively encouraged by both UK and Canadian dels, the UK reportedly having asked him to table the res Monday in advance of Eden's speech. Only members of the Australian del have raised with Menon serious doubts about his proposals. 3. A meeting was held at 5:30 p.m. Thurs with Lloyd, Jebb, Casey, Spender, Martin (Canada) and Munro (N.Z.) attended by Gross, Ross and Allen. Since Menon had apparently given the impression that US would accept our acquiesce in the proposals, Gross read the full account of his previous meeting with Menon as reported DELGA 131. Gross also presented orally as US delegation views the indispensable elements of an acceptable arrangement as set forth DELGA 133. He pointed out that Menon's proposals fail to meet these conditions in important respects and raise several practical problems which are more than matters of detail. For example, the possibility of deadlock in the commission at the outset on appointment of umpire 1s inconsis- tent with the 1mportant condition that the post-armistice mechanism should be self-operating and nothing be left to post- armistice negotiation. This aspect 01 the proposal seems unsound. Referring to the appointment of the three ex-GA Presi- dents to arrange for the political conference, Gross pointed out we are uncertain as to what their task would be. They could in no event supplant the planned special GA session which would select the UN delegates and fix their terms of reference. Moreover, we dislike GA approval now of one specific article (60) of truce agreement out of context. Notwithstanding above REPRODUCTION FROM THIS -86 SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION COPY, IF CLASSIFIED, IS PROHIBITED 1 4,9