Telegram from Ambassador Loy Henderson to Secretary of State Dean Acheson

INCOMING TELEGRAM Department of State 5-B-X TELEGRAPH BRANCH PLAIN Action Control: 13313 NEA Rec'd: June 30, 1950 FROM: New Delhi 1:03 a.m. Info SS TO: Secretary of State G P NO: 974, June 29 SAM FE NIACT EUR UNA Bajpai Secretary General, Ministry of External Affairs USUN has just furnished me with copy of announcement of OLI Government of India regarding resolution June 27. CIA AAN The Government of India have viewed with grave concern IE the developments in Korea involving, as they do, not only DCR civil war but also a threat to world peace. There have been a number of border incidents between North and South Korea in the past. But whatever the nature of these might have been, it appears clear from the information available to the Government of India that a large scale invasion of South Korea took place by armed forces of the North Korean Government. This information was supplied by a variety of sources, the most authoritative among them being the United Nation3 Commission on Korea on which India is represented and which, at the time of invasion, was in Seoul. In view of this information the Government of India's permanent delegate to the United Nations and representative on the Security Council, Shri B.N. Rau, supported the first resolution of the Security Council which declared that such aggression had taken place and called for a cease-fire and withdrawal of the North Korean forces to the 38th parallel. "This direction of the Security Council was not acted upon by the North Korean Government and their forces and the invasion continued till it threatened the capital city Seoul itself. The Security Council met again to consider this rapidly changing situation and passed the second resolution on Korea on the night of the 27th June New York time. The Government of India's representative in the Security Council was unable to participate in the voting on this second resolution on Korea because he could not communicate it in time to his government and obtain their instructions. The operative part of this resolution 'recommends innational ARCHITE AND N PLAIN the REPRODUCTION OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED