740.00119 P.W./5–2846: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Smith) to the Secretary of State
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[Received May 28—6:21 p.m.]
1678. I saw Molotov this afternoon and raised the question of the Pauley Mission. He informed me that Pauley and his party had [Page 525] already arrived in Northern Korea,52 but he declined to agree officially to any modification of the original time limit. I gathered from his remarks that the Foreign Office attitude is a reflection of irritation in the Soviet Army which obviously has been objecting to the Pauley Mission, and that the original concession was about as far as Foreign Office could go. I am of the opinion that Mr. Pauley will be given his minimum of 5 days for visiting plants and economic facilities.
Department please repeat to Tokyo as 47 and Seoul.
- The Department in its telegram 984, May 28, 8 p.m., to Moscow, quoted Mr. Pauley as reporting his party of 26 (10 principals, 2 aides, 5 interpreters, 3 secretaries, 1 train chief, 1 surgeon, and 4 drivers) expected to leave May 29 at 7 a.m. for north Korea (740.00119 P.W./5–2846).↩