Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Naval Aide)229 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE the 3.1 WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 By DEB NLT, Date 9-5-55 July 31, 1951 TOP SECRET SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS NATO MEETING Embassy Brussels has informed the Belgian Foreign Office of our desire to postpone the North Atlantic Council meeting until late October in Rome. Mr. Van Zeeland, who will be chairman of the meeting, is absent from Brussels, but Mr. de Gruben, the Secretary General of the Foreign Office, expressed the opinion that there was no particular obstacle to holding a meeting in September in Ottawa, to be attended by the Foreign Ministers and Finance Ministers, to be followed by full-dress meeting, including Defense Ministers, in October. He did, however, object to regarding the September meeting as "prelimi- nary! and felt it would be essential to have a fixed agenda for both meetings. Moreover, he pointed out that it would be difficult to separate political and financial matters from military matters, as we had suggested, and he said that in some respects the military issues were further advanced and ready for ministerial discussion than the financial and economic ones. CZECHOSLOVAKIA We have instructed our Missions in Paris and London to urge the French and British Govern- ments to join us in suspending permits to the Czechoslovak airlines to over- fly the Western Zones of Germany beginning August 1st. The French and British High Commissioners in Germany have shown reluctance to join in this move which we conceived primarily as retaliation for the imprisonment of Mr. Oatis by the Czechs. We have instructed our Missions to point out to the French and British that the move is also designed to protect other West- ern nationals and Western prestige generally in Czechoslovakia, which has suffered from our inaction in the face of the Oatis case. KOREA Ambassador Muccio reports that President Rhee has "leaked" to the press the story of General Paik's refusal to attend a session of the truce talks in Kaesong on the grounds that he was forbidden to attend any meeting which would discuss the estab- lishment of a new line of demarcation across Korea. Muccio says that Rhee's TOP SECRET