Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Far East and Australasia, Volume VI

895.00/11–548

Memorandum by the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs (Butterworth) to the Under Secretary of State (Lovett)

confidential

[Washington,] November 5, 1948.

Subject: Draft Resolution on Korea¹

There is attached for your approval a draft resolution on Korea which has received informal clearance from FE, O, UNA, EUR, and L, and from General Wedemeyer for the Army.

It is proposed that this text, which represents certain revisions by a Departmental working group of a draft submitted by the United States Delegation to the General Assembly,² be approved for transmittal to the Delegation as a basis for negotiation with other delegations on this subject, it being understood that the Delegation will have a reasonable margin of discretion in coordinating this draft with the views of other delegations, but that any substantive changes in its text will be cleared with the Department.

1. For text sent on November 8, see p. 1321.
2. See U.S. delegation position paper, October 22, p. 1315.