Office of the Historian

791.00/7–550: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in India

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Washington, July 5, 1950—8 p. m.

16. Dept has been in consultation with Ind Emb re Crock [Krock] art.1 First Secy states probable that no formal statement will be issued in US altho he has not consulted Amb or Rau. Press queries will be answered in sense Ind decision based on independent Fon policy, devotion to world peace and opposition to aggression and was in no way related to IC.

At Dept press conference tomorrow (urtel 22, July 5) press officer will respond to planted question in sense (1) Ind decision inherent in Ind Fon policy and position in UN since independence; (2) in light that policy and position, US Govt considered that facts Korean situation would speak for themselves to GOI and that no representations from outside source were required to convince GOI of rightness of decision it took; and (3) ur role was normal one of consultation with GOI in order that GOI might be currently informed of US views on developing situation and Dept aware of Ind opinion.2 If queried re IC aspect reply will be in sense that Dept has no reason believe GOI was influenced by anything other than facts in Korean situation.

You may in ur discretion make statement or reply to press queries along foregoing lines adding such other comment as may seem useful locally.

Acheson
  1. See footnote 1 to telegram 22, July 5, from New Delhi, p. 304.↩
  2. On July 6, a Department press spokesman did deny that the United States had exerted pressure on the Indian Government to support the June 27 Security Council resolution; see the New York Times, July 7, 1950.↩