693.95/12–2850
Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (Perkins) to the Secretary of State
Ambassador Wrong brought in the attached memorandum this afternoon. He said it had been sent down from Ottawa and was an attempt on their part to get the situation in perspective. I think you may be interested in glancing through it.
I told him that the difficulty I saw in their paper was that they wanted to maintain the principles of the UN but at the same time they wanted to be very slow about calling Communist China aggressive. I wondered if these two were compatible. Hume said he personally recognized this and felt if the Chinese came south of the 38th parallel there would be very little choice anyone would have and that they would have to be called aggressors.