Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

VIT NAVAL AIDE) 450 OFFICE OF DECLASSIFIED THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON State Dept. DEB E.O. 12065, Guidelines, NLT, Sec. Date March 3-402 4-11-8. 6, 1982 December 24, 1952 By TOP SECIRET SECURITY INFORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS KOREA The UK delegate at the UN has expressed the gravest concern about the handling of public reporting of incidents in prisoner of war and internees camps in Korea. He stated the British Government is having some difficulty in Parliament in this connection and considers it would be helpful if we prepared for expected continuing efforts on the part of the Communists to provoke demonstrations and riots in the camps. The delegate suggests, for example, that in the event further riots occur on the pattern of the recent Pungam variety, our military authorities be requested to make a public report at once, expressing regret and announcing the intention of conducting an investigation. The UK Government, according to our representatives in New York apparently feels it has not been able to obtain prompt and adequate information for response to Parliamentary inquiries. TRIESTE We believe that at the Secretary's Paris meeting with Prime Minister De Gasperi it became abundantly clear the Italian statesman could not accept our proposals for a Treiste settlement and that a possible territorial modification which we had considered making in the plan would not have changed his reaction. Although the move has led to no concrete result, we believe it has been welcomed by the Italians and has exerted a salutary effect on our relations with them by mitigating to some extent their resentment over General Handy's recent military talks with the Yugoslavs on behalf of the US, UK and France. In view of our obligation to inform the UK and France of De Gasperi's response, we have instructed our Embassies in London and Paris to tell the two foreign offices that we have made the proposal to De Gasperi, that he was unable to accept and that accordingly we see nothing to be gained by further action on the-plan at this time. In giving the British and French this information, we suggest our representatives state the need for maintaining secrecy concerning our approach to De Gasperi remains unaltered. TOP SECRET SEGURITY INFORIATTON