Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, The Far East, Volume VIII

747.92/4–1646: Telegram

The Chargé in Siam (Yost) to the Secretary of State

secret

Bangkok, April 16, 1946—noon.
[Received 6:40 p.m.]

399. ReDatel 275, April 13.⁴⁴ Have informed FonMin re US attitude. He appreciates our support but is embarrassed by possibility of having to present controversy to Assembly which last week ratified Australian agreement. Australians not yet approached Siam on question.

Yost

44. Not printed; it directed that Bangkok “inform Siamese Govt this Govt does not object to substitute Clause 11 but that it protests strongly against original Clause 11 without ancillary notes as being inimical to Siamese as well as US interests and unacceptable to US.” (747.92/4–1346) The files of the Department do not disclose whether either the Siamese or Australian Governments subsequently made official representations to each other on the question. The agreement terminating the state of war between Siam and Australia and the exchanges of notes, signed at Bangkok, April 3, 1946, are printed in British and Foreign State Papers, vol. cxlvi, pp. 553–558.