740.00119 Control (Korea)/8–2947: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union
1684. Urtel 2736.91 Copy of SWNCC 176/30 (US Policy in Korea) and material relating to Korea and work of Joint Commission being forwarded air mail. Next step as follows: Should USSR refuse to consider proposals of US (Deptel 164692), US will inform UK, China and USSR that it is submitting Korean problem to next session of General Assembly and that in meantime it will carry out positive program in US zone such as holding elections with presence of UN observers. In view possibility failure UN solution, US is studying possible necessity granting independence south Korea and implications such action.