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Matthews files, lot 53 D 413: Telegram

The Commander in Chief, United Nations Command (Clark) to the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Seoul, June 23, 1953—9:20 a.m.

Unnumbered, DTG 230020Z. Re DTG 221100Z1 after considering further the proposal suggested in para 5d (4), reference message, an alternate which would probably avoid difficult negotiations and possibly complicated political factors would be to move the Chinese non-repatriates to the D/Z and turn them over the NNRC in the same manner as the Korean non-repatriates. This would be a difficult logistical task, but am sure it could be overcome.

  1. Dated June 22, p. 1231.↩