Office of the Historian

795.00/2–1954: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Department of State

top secret
priority
Bonn, February 19, 1954—1 a.m.

2615. For Acting Secretary from Secretary. Reference Tedul 59.1 Suggest informing Rhee as personal message if you desire:

“Gratified that four Foreign Ministers agreed on importance of united and independent Korea, and established conference to achieve this at a place and with a composition which has always been the common desire of our two countries.”2

Dulles
  1. Supra.↩
  2. Telegram 684, Feb. 19, to Seoul instructed the Embassy to communicate to President Rhee the message contained in telegram 2615, which had been sent separately to Seoul by the Department in telegram 683 (795.00/2–1954).↩