104. Memorandum of a Conversation Between the Swedish Ambassador (Boheman) and the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Robertson), Department of State, Washington, December 7, 19551
SUBJECT
- Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
Ambassador Boheman came in at his initiative. He said that Mr. Robertson would recall that the Swedish Government had recently talked with the former Chinese Communist ambassador to Stockholm before he returned to China. They had urged upon the Chinese Communists the necessity for finding a solution to the problem of the NNSC which would move all the teams to the Demilitarized Zone, or else the Swedish Government did not see how it could continue on the NNSC. Subsequently, they had talked to the Swiss to [Page 194] urge them to take the same line with the Chinese Communist ambassador there.
Ambassador Boheman said that at Panmunjom the Polish member of the NNSC had hinted that the question might now be a subject for diplomatic negotiations. Consequently, a few days ago the Swedish Government had instructed its envoys in Prague and Warsaw to tell the Czech and Polish Governments that the only condition on which they could count on continued Swedish participation in the NNSC is the early removal of all the teams to the Demilitarized Zone. He said there is as yet no response to this approach.
Mr. Robertson thanked him for the information and stressed our appreciation for Swedish cooperation on this whole problem.
- Source: Department of State, Central Files, 795.00/12–755. Confidential. Drafted by McClurkin.↩