751H.00/5–2854: Telegram
The Chargé in Cambodia (Montllor) to the Department of State
confidential
Phnom
Penh, May 28, 1954—5
p.m.
[Received May 29—9:16 a.m.]
[Received May 29—9:16 a.m.]
144. Sent Saigon 277, repeated information Department 144, Paris 118. Prime Minister Penn Nouth told me last night that his government is unalterably opposed demarcation any rebel zones in Cambodia because areas occupied by Viet Minh are only non-inhabited forests and mountains. Royal Government wants Viet Minh to leave confines of Cambodia and is willing guarantee safe passage through its territory toward any Viet Minh zones in Vietnam.
Montllor