Telegram from Secretary of State Dean Acheson

(KOREA/50) 329 DUPLICATE IN W. P. FILE DIVISION OF INFORMATION 4 COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS TELEGRAPH BRANCH DEPARTMENT OF STATE COPY xx OUTGOING TELEGRAM 8 P.f. 26-H-X Sun 404 abuse CONTROL Origin PRIORITY FE Info To Certain American Diplomatic end Consular Officers, SS Circular 334 31 pot 669 3 G JA!! C 1951 E Intranaigence of CHI COMMILE UN LUST., summary rejection L EUR by Peking regime of earnest efforts of Entesan group obtain cease-fire, and NEA ARA now massive offensive across 38th parallel against DES foress, which for some UNA time have been deployed south of that line, can only be intercreted as determined effort by OO:LITES to implement their oft-repeated threat 30 drive UN forces from 611 of KOR. CHI are apparently villing compound their illegel intervention In KOR by renoving. with NK regime. ruthieun aggression against the territory of ROK In define UH, This confronts UN with problems even more serious then original intervention by Peking regine which might have had only limited objectives and which led to development six-power resolution Free world, (ff it is to maintain (to solidarity and retain and fortify 1ts determination to remain free. cannot afford to accout this situation without demonstretion of united will to withstand aggression. Therefore, it L.I.) be incomprehensible for UN es cohesive force in free world to sguore this aggreesion Such course will prove as fatal to long-term peace as helpless inection of League of Nations st time of JAP invesion of Manchuria. To ignore this CHI aggression WLD mean in effect that it's big eggressions can succeed with impanity and that world order for which UN has been striving MLD be in direct peril leaving every member country to stand alone against agression. On other hand, we must realistically face hard fact that 1t WLD be foolherdy for free peoples to embark on course that wLJ) require full-scale (OVER) hostilities ARGHIVES AMD loz RECORDS F SERVICE 127-128