Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLTCHaval Aide)723 CECLASSIFIED OFFICE OF E.O. 12005, Sec. 3-402 THE SECRETARY OF STATE State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 WASHINGTON By DEB NLT, Date 9-10-35 July 15, 1952 TOP SECRET SECURITY INF ORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS KASHMIR We have informed our UN mission in New York that un- less by noon today there is a telegram from Ambassador Bowles in New Delhi indicating some other possible course of action, we believe it is desirable that Dr. Graham proceed with his own proposals for a Kashmir settlement. We suggest, however, that Dr. Graham should con- sider sounding out the Pakistan delegate on the acceptability of the following proposal as a follow-up to the quantum proposals in the event the Indians raise the question of the security of the Kashmir state: 1) Graham would assume the right of "surveillance" over Azad Kashmir upon the coming into effect of the final stage of the demilitarization program, and all mili- tary forces in the state on the Pakistan side of the cease-fire line would be under the command of Graham's military advisor; 2) the military advisor would assume command on the date agreed upon by the two parties as the date when all regular Pakistan forces are out of the state, and he would proceed to supervise the reduction of the remaining forces as agreed upon by the two parties; 3) the Government of Pakistan would arrange for assur- ing that the Azad Kashmir Government would agree to accept the effectua- tion of the above two paragraphs. KOREAN TRUCE The British High Commissioner in New Delhi has reported the following information to Lon- don concerning the Chinese Communist offer of June 15 concerning prisoner exchange: In reply to repeated requests from the Indian Government for clarification of the Chinese proposals, the Chinese Communist government has now addressed a note to the Indian Embassy in Peking to the effect that it is no longer willing to negotiate on the basis of its second alternative (re-screening by neutral nations of prisoners objecting to repatriation) and is now interested only in the first alternative (forced return of 20, 000 Chinese and 90,000 Koreans). The Indian Charge in Peking has been in- structed to express his government's disappointment and regret over this development and to add that the Indian Government does not consider the door closed to negotiations and that Indian good offices are still at the disposal of both parties. TOP SECRET SECURITY INF ORMATION