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    "ocrText": "NATIONAL\nARCHIVES\nRECORDS\n-4-\nSERVICE'\nGOVERNY\nNEW DELHI\nOur Embassy reports that the Indian press claims that high\nChinese Communist sources have said that \"the moment General\nMacArthur's forces cross the 38th parallel they will clash with\nChiness forces\". (New Delhi's 850, October 6)\nTHE HAGUE\nSecretary-General Boon gave our Ambassador the following resumes\nof recent cables from the Dutch Charge in Peking bearing on the\nKoraan situation and based largely on Panikkar's observations. The\nSecretary-General expressed the view that the reports were correct\nbut that the statements made might represent sone bluffing. The\nstatements read in part as follows: 11 (1) Chou En-lai said in a\nprivats conversation that China would fight in case the 38th parallel\nwere crossed Chou En-lai insisted that China had to defend her-\nsolf against further aggression by the USA; crossing the 38th\nparallel would be considered such. and \"The Chief of Staff of\nthe Chinese Arny in a private conversation made the statement that\nChina had no choice but to fight if the 38th parallel were crossed;\nalthough he realized that war with the USA would set back China's\ndevelopment 50 years or more, the Chief of Staff's opinion was that\nif no resistence were offered at this time, China would forever be\nunder American control.\nThe Dutch Charge in Peking is convinced that the Peking regime\ndoas not want war, but there exists a real danger that, in a moment\nof panic, the Chiness Communists might precipitate the situation if\nour forces cross the 38th parallel and penetrate deeply into North\nKorea. (The Hague's 490, October 3)\nMOSCOW\nExpressing surprise that a messags of such a serious nature as\nthat which provided the basis for the Department's inquiry had not\nbeen conveyed by the Chinese more directly to the UN or to the US,\nour Ambassador to Moscow, concurred with by the British Embassy,\nspeculates that Chou's statements to Panikkar \"may be a last minute\nChinese attempt to play upon Indian apprehension to the point where\nthe maximum profit for China and the USSR can be salvaged from North\nKorean reverses\". (Moscow's 813, October 3)\nIn the earlier telegraphic report, our Ambassador in Moscow\ninformed the Department of information received by his British and\nDutch colleagues regarding Chinese Communist intervention in Korea.\nThe\nTOP"
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