357.AD/12–1150: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin) to the Secretary of State
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[Received December 11—10:21 a. m.]
Delga 413. Re Korea—views of LA delegations. During evening December 10 US GADel officer spoke separately with representatives of Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Ecuador describing current developments re cease fire and outlining US position as set forth by Gross and reported Delga 400.1
All 4 Latin Americans were pleased with developments and indicated approval US position. At the same time all expressed in varied degree considerable skepticism over possibility that PRC would accept cease fire agreement without requiring political concessions on our part which we would be unable to make. Gutierrez (Cuba) and Santa Cruz (Chile) emphasized importance of thinking now of next step in event cease fire negotiations fail. They also expressed view that situation is made more serious by failure of US and UK to agree to broad issues in Far East and by what they sense as lowered prestige of US among Asian and European countries because of military reverses.
It appears that the Latin Americans as represented by the above 4 delegations continue to be ready to support the US position in the Korean situation as part of the larger world conflict and await our lead.