Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, Korea and China, Volume VII, Part 1

795.00/1–2851: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Gifford) to the Secretary of State

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London, January 28, 1951—1 p. m.

4162. Although he has not cleared with Cabinet Attlee has now agreed to voting in favor of paragraph 8 of US resolution with the additional language quoted in paragraph 3 Deptel 3557, January 27 on understanding (a) that US will not put obstacles in way of those nations which feel that negotiations are still possible or useful and (b) that if Asian-Arab resolution is introduced with Pierson [Pearson] amendment¹ embodied in it US will not oppose.²

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1. The reference here is to the plan outlined to the First Committee on January 26 by Lester Pearson of Canada; see footnote 3, p. 128.
2. Telegram 4167, January 29, from London, reported Cabinet endorsement for Attlee’s approval of Paragraph 8 of the U.S. draft resolution with the additional language (795.00/1–2951).