Office of the Historian

740.00119 PW/5–2546: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Smith)

secret
Washington, May 25, 1946—2 p.m.

974. For your info in connection visit Pauley to northern Korea following received from Pauley today:

“Please inform interested parties that Moscow’s 41,49 as I understand it, denies my mission access as suggested in my letter of May 20 [Page 524] to Chistiakov setting forth a full itinerary and placed me in a position of either not going north of the 38 parallel, or going with a bandage over my eyes.

I propose now to do the latter, but continue to press for full plan. In the meantime, will establish a base at Mukden for Manchuria operation, maintaining a minimum sized base in Seoul.”50

Byrnes
  1. See last sentence of telegram 1609, May 22, noon, from Moscow, p. 520.↩
  2. In telegram 975, May 25, 4 p.m., to Moscow, the Department reported Mr. Pauley’s latest message offering further limitations on his proposed visit to north Korea in connection with a new request to the Soviet Foreign Office (740.00119 P.W./5–2546).↩