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Memorandum of Conversations, by Mr. Charles P. Noyes, Adviser on Security Council Affairs, United States Mission at the United Nations

secret
[New York,] December 13, 1950.

US/A/C.1/2379

Subject: Korea—Conversations, separately, with:

Participants: Mr. Rajeshwar Dayal, Indian Delegation
Ambassador Ales Bebler, Yugoslav Delegation
Mr. C. P. Noyes, United States Delegation

Dayal said that the Indians had had no talks with Wu in the last day or so in regard to their cease-fire resolution. They did not know what Wu’s attitude was towards the Thirteen-Power resolution. They thought it was wiser not to approach him directly on this question but to leave it to the President of the Assembly and his committee to do so.

With regard to the procedure of the Assembly, Dayal indicated that the Indians assumed that if the cease-fire resolution were passed, Committee 1 would take no further action on the Korea question ilntil the President of the Assembly had had time to make a report. He gave no indication that the Indians were in a hurry to get consideration of the Twelve-Power resolution.

After hearing Malik’s speech,1 Dayal said he thought it was difficult to judge whether Malik was attempting to influence the Chinese decision on the cease-fire resolution and make it almost impossible for them to accept it; or whether he was speaking in a sense on behalf of the Chinese Communists. He seemed to be very much shocked by Malik’s speech and assumed there was little hope now for a successful cease-fire.

I spoke to Bebler immediately after he had held a five-minute conversation with Ambassador Rau. Bebler told me that Rau wanted to give assurances to General Wu that the President’s public statement that the Seventh Fleet would be withdrawn from Formosa as soon as a peaceful solution of the Korean question was reached still stood. He said that Rau planned to make another public statement to the effect that of course the President’s statement still stood since it had not been publicly withdrawn. He then hoped to point out to Wu that he was entitled to rely on the fact that this statement still stood.

  1. Reference is to Mr. Malik’s statement before the First Committee which met on December 13 from 10:45 a. m. to 1 p. m.; see U.N. document A/C.1/SK.416↩