Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED 12065, Sec. 3-402 January 19, 1951 Dept. E.O. Guidelines, March 9-4-85 6, 1982 S R E T State By DEB NLT, Date SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS UN ACTION Embassy London reports the UK Foreign ON CHINA Office has just telegraphed instructions to its UN delegation stating that the UK finds the terms of the Chinese reply to the cease-fire resolution unacceptable and authorizing Jebb to "have a good smack at it". The UK hopes that the US will not insist on introducing a new resolution today, but if the US does insist, and if the resolution is along the lines of the draft contained in our circular telegram 387 (attached) the UK would wish to have it amended. The UK would prefer to have any condemnatory resolution handled separately from any resolution calling for further UN action, and not combined in one document. Ambassador Bruce in Paris has discussed the matter with M. Schuman who said he felt that the US had been wise in agreeing to the latest UN cease-fire proposal, and he added that this fact now placed the US and other interested governments in a much stronger position than they would have been in otherwise. Schuman has still to discuss the whole situation with Bonnet, Chauvel, Massigli and Francois- Poncet, and the French position on further UN steps will not be clear until then. Embassy Ottawa reports that Canada feels action should be taken immediately by the UN to condemn Chinese aggres. sion, but feels that the cease-fire offer should be kept open for acceptance. SOVIET NOTE Embassy Paris reports the French Foreign Office has cabled instructions to Mr. Bonnet in Washington which are tantamount to acceptance of our draft reply to the Soviets concerning a meeting of the four Foreign Ministers, with the exgeption of a single sentence stating that the Prague Declaration "has also been rejected by the majority of the German people as is now evi- denced anew by the statement of the Federal Chancellor on January 15. " The French do not believe it desirable to refer to Adenauer's attitude and they also question the expression "the majority of the German people. " In commenting to Mr. Bonnet on the US draft the French Foreign Office