795.00/10–650: Telegram
The Ambassador in India (Henderson) to the Secretary of State
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[Received October 6—9:47 a. m.]
843. 1. I deeply appreciate suggestion contained in Deptel 504, October 4 which reached me only this morning. In order that observations contained in this telegram might go in perhaps more persuasive form to Prime Minister and his foreign policy advisers I incorporated substance of them in document entitled “Informal Memorandum Setting Forth Some of the Considerations Which Are Affecting US Policies With Regard to Korea” attached this memo to secret personal letter addressed to Bajpai, Secretary General MEA, which I gave him at noon today. In this letter I told him that I had just received number of suggestions from Department for my guidance in discussing Korean problem further with him and the Prime Minister and that I had incorporated them in attached informal memo for his convenience.
2. Bajpai read through this memo and remarked that it was helpful in supplementing and enlarging upon some of our previous conversations. The important question however still was not answered and that was “What is to be done next?”
3. I replied that it seemed obvious to me from contents this memo that most effective course of action would be for every free nation opposed to aggression to give Commie China to understand that if it should intervene in Korea it would thereby lose any sympathy which it might have from any nations of the free world. It seemed to me that points in memo served to stress the fact that hesitation or equivocation at this time in the face of threats of Commie China might tend to encourage rather than to discourage intervention of Peiping in Korea. Bajpai said that Prime Minister was at this moment considering further move re which he would talk with me later. He started to give me in confidence an outline of proposed move when he was informed by telephone that the Prime Minister wished to see him at once. He apologized and said he would get in touch with me later.1
- See telegram 844, supra.↩