Telegram from Warren Austin to Secretary of State Dean Acheson

INCOMING TELEGRAM Department of State RE SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION Action Control: 8583 Rec'd: UNA FROM: New York November 22, 1952 Info 9:19 p.m. TO: Secretary of State SS G NO; EUR DELGA 241, November 22, 7:29 p.m. NEA ARA PRIORITY. FE L DEPT PASS OTTAWA, EYES ONLY FOR SECY. SENT DEPT DELGA 241, RPTD OTTAWA 4. LIMITED DISTRIBUTION, FROM GROSS. Re Korea: After outlining to Secretary Acheson present situation here and summarizing developments at mtg of 21 co-sponsors yesterday a.m. I read to Secretary substance of points I planned to make to Eden at our mtg this afternoon (DELGA 242, Nov 22). Secre- tary approved substance of points and instructed that we shld arrange mtg of 21 Sunday evening. Secretary wished to be free Monday a.m. to prepare comite 1 statement. He also agreed that we shld not be inactive during week end but shld take steps to mobilize support behind our point of view. At 3:30 mtg with Eden and Selwyn Lloyd, the three of us had a frank and friendly discussion for more than an hour. No agree- ment was reached but believe mtg was useful for exchange of views and definition of present positions of both US and UK Govts. After I outlined substance of points mentioned above, I told Eden that we had requested mtg of 21 for Sunday evening and that Secretary of State planned to attend. Eden then outlined his views in following sense. He himself still believed that the Indian res in the form tabled by Menon was "not too bad" He felt it to have been a large accomplish- ment that the Indians had recorded their support for the principle of non-forcible repatriation. Although he was not able to appre- ciate the full force of our objections to para 14 of the Menon draft (relating to a comm) or to para 17 (relating to dis- position of non-repatriated PWs) he had attempted in his speech in comite l to safeguard what he understood to be the basic elements of our concern. Although he recognized the fact that we valued Indian support, as I had pointed out, he himself as well as the vast majority of Brit public felt that the Indian initiative was of "tremendous importance". Eden shared our doubts SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION REPRODUCTION FROM THIS -188 COPY, IF CLASSIFIED, IS PROHIBITED 16-67338-1 190 GPO