330/7–2450: Telegram
The Ambassador in India (Henderson) to the Secretary of State
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New Delhi, July 24,
1950—10 a. m.
[Received July 24—4:52 a. m.]
[Received July 24—4:52 a. m.]
182. Embtel 180, July 23.
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- I suggest further minor alteration to draft message to Nehru.1 Last clause, first sentence, final paragraph be changed to read “they [Page 457] also served to emphasize our unity of purpose to strengthen the UN in resisting aggression.”
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- In order further to smooth ruffled feelings I suggest that passage similar to following be inserted in Department’s draft immediately before last paragraph: “I particularly regret that we were unable to respond in what you might have considered a generous manner to your message of July 17. We fully appreciate your earnest desire that hostilities in Korea be terminated before they spread to other countries. We are convinced, however, that they can be terminated without encouragement to the aggressor and to potential aggressors only after the unconditional withdrawal of aggressor from the ROK. We also understand your deep interest in China and your evident desire for the maintenance of friendly relations with your neighbors, the people of China. We too are most anxious that the traditional friendship between the peoples of the US and those of China should not be allowed to languish. We look forward to the time when the contacts between the American and Chinese people, broken through no desire or acts on our part, can be resumed; and when there cannot be reasonable doubt on the part of the free nations that such persons as represent China in the UN are true spokesmen for a free and independent China. From our own knowledge of the Chinese peoples we can have no doubt that a free and independent China will fully associate itself with the great purposes of the UN.”
Henderson