Office of the Historian

892.014/12–2146: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Siam (Stanton)

secret
Washington, December 31, 1946—7 p.m.

977. ReDeptel 969, Dec 26. Prince Wan informed Dept he returning Bangkok31 immediately negotiate establishment Conciliation Commission with French Chargé.

Sent to Bangkok. Repeated to Paris and London.

Byrnes
  1. On December 30. In a memorandum of that date, Mr. Landon stated that Prince Wan’s list of names which his Government intended to propose as possible neutral members of the Conciliation Commission contained those of two Americans—William Phillips and Joseph C. Grew (892.014/12–3046).↩