Office of the Historian

795.00/11–550: Circular telegram

The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Offices 1

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Washington, November 5, 1950—11 p. m.

119. Please deliver immediately to FonOff text Special Report by United Nations Command on Korea relayed as Deptels 2410 to Paris, 400 to Taipei, 399 to Cairo, 92 to Quito, 331 to Oslo, 377 to Belgrade, 185 to Havana and 672 to New Delhi.2 Moscow and London no action. Inform FonOffs listed that Special Report is being filed with UN tonight for information Security Council and that US will ask for early meeting of SC to discuss unlawful intervention in Korea. USUN will be in touch with their dels in New York. Our objectives in Korea remain same. We wish to localize Korean fighting and prevent it from spreading. We believe UN must firmly insist that illegal intervention be promptly halted. On other hand, we hope Chi Commie authorities will come to senses and not force extension of hostilities which it had been UN purpose from beginning to avoid.

Acheson
  1. Sent to Belgrade, Cairo, Havana, London, Moscow, New Delhi, Oslo, Paris, Quito, Taipei, and the U.S. Mission at the United Nations.↩
  2. See telegram 476, November 5, 5 p.m., to New York, p. 1046.↩