Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Great Britain Sir Oliver Franks, Dean Rusk, and Wayne G. Jackson

10. 325 41 DEPARTMENT OF STATE NLT 811 Memorandum of Conversation DATE:November 24, 1950 4:15 P.M. SUBJECT: Various Matters TRUMA is to ARCHIVES SERVICE' AND PARTICIPANTS: Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador Mr. Dean Rusk Mr. Wayne G. Jackson DECLASSIFIED E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or () Dept. of State letter, 10.21.77 1923 COPIES TO: S - The Secretary PROTECT NLT 77.34 FE - Mr. Rusk By NLT He A. NARS Date 12-6-77 EUR - Mr. Perkins BNA - Embassy - London 1-1493 The Ambassador called at Mr. Rusk's request. Mr. Rusk delivered to the Ambassador, on behalf of the Secretary, a message in answer to one received from Mr. Bevin which related to the latter's desire to give the British House of Commons certain assurances with regard to the conduct of military operations in Korea. A copy of the Secretary's message to the British Ambassador is attached. Mr. Rusk also delivered to Ambassador Franks a copy of a personal message from the Secretary to Mr. Bevin relating to the proposal for a demilitarized zone in Korea. This message is being sent by cable to the Uni ted States Embassy in London with instructions to deliver it to Mr. Bevin, the copy being given to Ambassador Franks for his information. (The message is contained in the Department's TOP SECRET cable 2752 of November 24.) Mr. Rusk added that the UN Commander was anxious to take full advantage of favorable terrain in determining where troops will be halted. Mr. Rusk stated that we had some intelligence, the relia- bility of which was unknown, that Chinese communists were cancelling all contracts which called for delivery of goods from Hong Kong later than November 30. This might imply some threat to Hong Kong. He assumed that the British had the same intelligence but would see that it was passed to them. Ambassador Franks said that he did not know of any such in- telligence. Mr. Rusk TAD