Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Navel A dellis OFFICE OF of THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED November 13, 1950 Authority NLT- 88-14 TOP SECRET DEB un Date 10-18-88 SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS INDIA Ambassador Henderson reports from New Delhi that he has reliable and "even authoritative" in- formation to the effect that the events in Tibet and the unrest in Nepal have resulted in increasing dissatisfaction in top Indian government and party circles with India's present foreign policy - - even those cabinet members who are Nehru-adherents appear convinced that India must recognize international communism as India's chief danger and change its policy accordingly. Patel, the Deputy Prime Minister, has stated that he will insist on a cabinet decision, followed by a public announce - ment, indicating a new positive, bro-Western policy orientation, failing which he might resign from the cabinet and break openly with Nehru. Ambassador Henderson is inclined to feel that in spite of present tensions, Nehru and Patel will be able to work out some kind of formula which will enable India gradually to shift its policy toward the West without too much publicity. He adds that Nehru is said to be showing somewhat more friendliness to the US than heretofore and to be steadily losing enthusiasm for Communist China. TIBET We have learned from Embassy New Delhi that Sinha, the Indian representative in Lhasa, reports that there are no indications that the Dalai Lama intends to leave Lhasa if and when the Chinese enter the city, and that, on the contrary, the Kashag had decided to invest the Dalai Lama forthwith with full authority as the head of the government and to have the formal investment ceremonies without delay. The Secretary General of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs has professed his mystification over the status of the reported Tibetan appeal to the UN, which this Ministry had confirmed to the Embassy on November 10 but with the reservation that it could not assure us that the appeal had actually been sent. WESTERN EUROPE Ambassador Bruce in Paris has been given confidentially a new draft proposal on German rearmament which the French delegate, M. Alphand, will present to the Council of Deputies which begins sessions today in London. In discussing its contents with Ambassador Bruce, M. Alphand and M. Parodi, the Secretary General of the French Foreign Office, said that they hoped to T T