Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT (Naual A.d.112 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 November 7, 1950 By, DEB NLT, Date 6-10-8570 P SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS KOREA Upon receiving the message from the Secretary on the subject of Chinese Communist military interven- tion in Korea, Foreign Minister Bevin expressed his personal view to Ambassador Douglas that the Chinese were so deeply involved in Korea that they would not now settle voluntarily for less than a considerable voice in the solution of the Korean situation. Bevin also expressed his concern over the possibility that developments in Korea might tie up extensive resources of the western powers and thereby undermine the defense program in Europe. Subsequently, the UK Foreign Office in- - formed Embassy London that the UK accepts our draft resolution on Chinese intervention with slight modifications and will co-sponsor it in the UN. Meanwhile, Yugoslav UN delegate Bebler, in a discussion of this problem with a member of our delegation, expressed the opinion that the Chinese Communist action was a manifestation of an "infantile disease" of the new Communist regime which, in its early stages of development, lacks political judgment and that the Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet and its reply to the Indian approach was another manifestation of this disease and a colossal mistake. Bebler is convinced that the Chinese Communists feel that the hydro-electric works along the Manchurian border are threatened and that the UN forces constitute a genuine threat to Manchuria. Bebler believes that the Soviet Union is trying to develop this feeling and that assurances on these two points by the US and the UN would help considerably in remov- ing these issues from the current situation. WESTERN Ambassador Douglas in London has suggested to EUROPE Foreign Minister Bevin that, if the British Labor Party leaders had not already done so, it might be useful for them to approach the French Socialists on the possibility of the French Government's adopting a more realistic approach to the question of western European defense and that the help of the Dutch,