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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Vyshinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich, 1883-1954
Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 1900-
Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951
Bajpai, Girija Shankar, 1891-1954
Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON January 16, 1950 SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS JAPANESE In a message transmitted by Embassy Colombo UK PEACE TREATY Foreign Minister Bevin has informed the Secretary that the Colombo Conference has decided that the members of the Commonwealth will coordinate their views on the substance of the Japanese peace treaty through a working party to be set up in London which will be confined to members of the Common- wealth and will consist of High Commissioners supported by experts. These discussions will be designed to work out an agreed policy and to avoid any risk of a split within the Commonwealth concerning which we had been disturbed. Bevin added that he would keep the Secretary informed of developments. KASHMIR Ambassador Austin at the UN in New York has deliver- ed to the Indian Ambassador, Madame Pandit, and to the Indian Secretary General of External Affairs, Sir Girja Bajpai, the Secretary views on the Kashmir problem. The Indian representa- tives were told that: 1) we have concluded that the serious deteri- - oration of Indo-Pakistan relations requires earlier visible progress toward Kashmir settlement than India envisages and that the most reassuring move would be agreement on a program of demilitarization of Kashmir; 2) we consider it essential that discussions with McNaughton be continued in New York until agreement is reached and therefore urge India to reconsider its position; and 3) should India terminate McNaughton's efforts despite the fact that Pakistan has accepted his proposals, we would support in the Security Council McNaughton's present or future proposals and in the light of his recommendations would support Security Council action necessary to overcome the present deadlock. AUSTRIAN We have instructed Embassy Moscow, in coordination TREATY with the French and British, to approach Vyshinski on the subject of the Austrian treaty. Our approach should be in the form of an oral demarche and an aide memoire and should be designed to obtain assurances that negotiations will be continued on the basis of previous agreements without further obsta- cles or a flat Soviet refusal to continue negotiations. We wish to avoid detailed discussion with Vyshinski and do not wish to give an impression that we are overeager or willing to make further concessions. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 SIGRET State Dept. March 6, 1982 - By ,DEB Date 5-10-81