357.AB/4–752: Telegram
The Ambassador in Pakistan (Warren) to the Department of State1
1154. Deptel 1018, April 5, 5 p.m. FonMin this afternoon said his first personal reaction to the Dept’s suggestion is that it may be worthwhile if there is hope that Graham wld come to grips with the problem. Evidence of such intent wld be inclusion of military advisors in the group conducting the conversations. Either Devers, Malone, Clay or Wedemeyer will be acceptable to Paks. Shld this foregoing thought be acceptable to Graham and the GOI, the FonMin is confident that the Pak Cab wld be willing to send a cab min to the SC—probably Mahmoud Hussein, Min for Kashmiri Affairs—supported by advisors who wld probably include the Fon Secy and the Secy of Defense.
The FonMin will not leave Pak at this time because he is needed to guide the Cab thinking and to act as a brake on precipitate action.
The Brit HC visited the FonMin half an hour before my own interview. Zafrulla’s comments to him, while not so specific as his statements [Page 1218] to me, followed the same gen line of a favorable reaction to the proposal from Whitehall in Wash.
- This telegram was repeated for information to London.↩