330/6–2650: Telegram
The Ambassador in Yugoslavia (Allen) to the Secretary of State
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[Received June 26—9:55 p. m.]
812. Deputy Foreign Minister Prica has just told me this morning high Yugoslav authorities have been meeting for several hours on Korean situation and had decided to instruct Bebler1 to press for resolution condemning aggression, calling on both sides to return to original positions, and demanding UN investigation. Bebler will be instructed to abstain on other issues.
Prica referred to special difficulties facing Yugoslavia in this matter. I pointed out that situation seemed to me entirely clear cut for Yugoslavia and every one else. Whether UN could take decisive action in face of open aggression was as important to Yugoslavia as any other country in world. I said I hoped isolationism in America was dead but that Yugoslav Government should remember that if other countries were hesitant to cooperate with US in banishing aggression, Americans could become disillusioned. I knew of no country which might be more affected by such a development than Yugoslavia. I said that if Yugoslavia ever had occasion to invoke UN assistance, I hoped Yugoslav Government would not have cause to regret position it had taken in Korean case.
- Ales Bebler, Yugoslav representative on the U.N. Security Council.↩