205. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Cambodia1

701. Your 1231 repeated New Delhi 66 and Ottawa 4.2 During informal conversation with Department officer June 14 Krishna Menon3 tartly took US to task for MDA Agreement Cambodia. Intensely criticized us for promoting such agreements all over the world which heighten international tensions and for violating Geneva Agreements. When Department officer denied such violation, Menon immediately cited practically verbatim enumerated points 1, 2 and 4 contained your 1195 repeated New Delhi 60.4 When Department officer stated US was answering repeated Cambodian requests for military assistance, Menon replied US did not have to accept natural desire of “undemocratic regime” get arms free.

Comment: Menon thoroughly familiar Indian-Polish objections and intensely hostile to agreement.

Hoover
  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/6–1755. Secret. Drafted by Young and cleared by SOA. Repeated to New Delhi, Ottawa, and to Sebald who was attending the tenth anniversary ceremonies of the founding of the United Nations at San Francisco.
  2. In telegram 1231, June 17, the Embassy reported briefly on a conversation between the Third Secretary of the Indian Embassy in Phnom Penh and a U.S. official. The Indian official suggested what he personally considered would be an acceptable statement to the ICC by Cambodia in reference to disagreements over the military assistance bilateral agreement between Cambodia and the United States. (Ibid.)
  3. Head of the Indian Delegation to the U.N. General Assembly.
  4. Document 203.