Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of India Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, T. N. Kaul, and Joseph S. Sparks

332 SECRET SIS DEPARTMENT OF STATE 190 Memorandum of Conversation cof e.) DATE: July 17, 1950 SUBJECT: Presentation of a Note from the Prime Winister of India PARTICIPANTS: Ber Excellency, Madame vijayalakshai Pandit - Ambassador of India Mr. z. N. Kaul - First Secretary, Embassy of India The Honorable, Dean Acheson - Secretary of State Mr. Joseph 8 . Sparks - SOA COPIES TO: s/s, NTA, SOA, UNA, PE Amembassy, New pelhi 1-1493 In handing the note from the Prine Minister of India to me, Nadame Pandit said that they had been distressed this morning to see from the papers that its contents had been disclosed in New Delhi in an All-India Radio Broadcast and were at a loss to explain how this had happened. I read the note and said that I hoped we would be in a position to have a reply this afternoon. Madame Pandit aaid that the Prime Minister regards the contents of his original message as a precedent consistent with the high ideals of the merican people and of the President of the United states personally and that she hopes every consideration will be given to it. I assured her that the problem would be considered by the President himself most deeply and carefully. and Madame Pandit said that she did not wish to review the entire background but did wish to renind me that in RECORDS SERVICE* the opinion of the Dovernment of Indie there is reason to believe that Communist China would not take en aggressive attitude as a nember of the United Nations and that some clarification statement from the United States concerning Formosa would be most helpful. DECLASSIFIED She said STATE DEAT. LTR. 3-2-13 Authority NLT- SECRET By AL NLT Date 5-12-13