Office of the Historian

102. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State0

New Delhi, January 29, 1962, 4 p.m.

2243. Deptel 2541.1 Desai called me in 3 p.m. today and handed me copy Nehru’s reply to President dated January 27. Letter three pages long and contains fourteen paragraphs. In order provide Department soonest with substance of reply, quoted below in full are first two paragraphs and also paragraphs 9 through 14. Paragraphs 3 through 8 are largely historical recital and will be sent in separate telegram.2

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[This letter has not been declassified by the Indian Government.]

Timmons
  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/1-2962. Secret; Niact; Limit Distribution.↩
  2. In telegram 2541 to New Delhi, January 28, the Department requested that the Embassy cable the full text or excerpts of the letter from Nehru to Kennedy, which the Embassy had previously indicated had been sent to the Indian Embassy in Washington for delivery to the White House. (Ibid., 690.91/1-2862)↩
  3. Telegram 2247 from New Delhi, January 29. (Ibid, 690D.91/1-2962) The full text of the letter is in the Kennedy Library, President’s Office Files, Countries Series, India, Security, 1962.↩