357.AB/3–2652: Telegram
The Ambassador in Pakistan (Warren) to the Department of State1
1085. Ref London Embtel 65, March 25 sent Dept 937.2
As reported in my 1054 of March 23,3 Graham left Karachi yesterday KLM 9:30 a.m. for Geneva. I am assuming the Dept will communicate with Graham in Geneva if it desires to bring to his attn the [Page 1208] material in its 937 of March 24, 5 p.m. which arrived in Karachi after Graham’s departure.
Zafrulla this a.m. said he was much better physically and appeared more cheerful mentally than he has been the last several days. He repeated to me almost verbatim the conv he had earlier today with UKHC as to what he had said to Graham when he last met him for luncheon at the GovGen’s with only Mohammed Ali as the fourth person present. His remarks were substantially the same as Mohammed Ali gave me last night when he said that the three of them had attempted to prevail upon Graham to return to Delhi instead of going to Geneva, with the suggestion that he present the GOI with specific proposals on the quantum of troops and that he consider after conversing with Nehru the possibility of a mtg with two PriMins.
Zafrulla added today that he cld not understand why Graham felt unable to move on either of these suggestions. He expressed the hope that it was not yet too late for Graham to return to the sub-continent after several days stay in Geneva to write up his report thus far, and if he does return, he wld hope he wld bring with him a mil advisor, either Devers or Malone, in order to work out with the govts of India and Pak their specific views on the quantum of troops in order that the SC when it has Graham’s final report will have positive material on which to make a decision. Zafrulla reiterated his country’s willingness to consider a mtg of the two PriMins. This I regard as a great step forward. I had not believed that the Pak PriMin wld be willing to meet Nehru because of his impression of Nehru’s great ability in conv and debate and his own relative inexperience in recent years in negot. When I asked Zafrulla if he felt there might be any possible reflection on Graham’s personal or official position if he were to come back, he said that he did not see how that might occur, that if he shld return in the next few days, the action cld well be construed as part of his present mission and that so far as the time element is concerned, Pak gave no significance to the March 31 deadline. He did not believe Ind wld attach any significance to it either.
- This telegram was repeated for information to London and by the Department to Geneva.↩
- Telegram 65 from London to Karachi, Mar. 25, was the same as telegram 4239 from London to the Department, not printed. It made reference to the Department’s telegram 937 to Karachi, Mar. 24 (p. 1204), and inquired, inter alia, whether the Embassy was able to deliver the Department’s views expressed therein to Graham before his departure. (357.AB/3–2652)↩
- Not printed.↩