Message from General Douglas MacArthur to President Harry S. Truman

DECLASSIFIED TOPS CRET E. o. 11652. Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (a) f R OF US OSD letter, April 12, 1974 By NLT- HC NARS Date 9-19-77 16 October 1950 TO: THE PRESIDENT FRM: GENERAL MACARTHUR NBR: CX 66554 I have just received the following message from President Syngman ithee; " UN new committees resolution not acceptable. Korean pople will insist on maintaining their inalienable right to hold elections and to set up any government according to their free will, under the observation of and incooperation with UN commission. But to allow any nation or nations evenUN to interfere with the internal administazion in cooperation with the existing communist organizations imposed upon the people by alien power is impossible. After defeat- AND ing the communists at the cost of the precious blood of UN and Korean armies the new committees proposal to protect and revive communism in the north is unthinkable. This government is taking over the eivilian administration whenever hostilities cease by dispatching the Governors appointed two years ago for five provinces of the North to restore peace and order. When the situation is ready for elections, the people will be allowed to elect their own governors in free atmos- phere and the same civic rights and privileges enjoyed by the citizens