Office of the Historian

740.00119 Control (Korea)/12–1746: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Political Adviser in Korea (Langdon)

secret
Washington, December 17, 1946—1 p.m.

156. Draft text as follows passed to War Dept. today for approval and transmission by separate War Dept. telegram to SCAP:

“Dept shares views expressed opening sentence Tfgcg 547 Dec 8 [7]99 and approves dispatch proposed letter1 subject to suggestion that General Hodge consider the following:

1.
Proposal No. 2 to read as follows:

‘Parties or social organizations may appoint individuals as their representatives who sign the declaration in Communiqué No. 5 and who the parties or social organizations believe will cooperate with the Joint Commission in the implementation of the Moscow decision. If for good reason it is believed that a representative of a party or social organization is antagonistic to either of the Allied Powers or that he would not in good faith cooperate in the implementation of the Moscow decision, the Joint Commission may by mutual agreement require the declarant party to name a substitute spokesman.’

2.
In proposal No. 3 before the word opposition in the first and second sentences it is suggested that the word ‘active’ be inserted.”

Byrnes
  1. See footnote 98, p. 778.↩
  2. For General Hodge’s letter of December 24 to General Chistiakov, see Korea’s Independence, p. 30.↩