740.00119 Control (Korea)/9–547: Telegram
The Political Adviser in Korea (Jacobs) to the Secretary of State
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316. Z[urc?] 1111. Joint Commission held 59th meeting September 5 with Shtikov as chairman to continue reading of drafts of joint report as reported Seoul PolAd 315, September 5. First session lasted 2 hours and second session 1¼ hours.
After completing paragraph by paragraph study for discussion of both drafts, ways and means of resolving difficulty were discussed. General Brown suggested first transmitting each delegation’s full report with covering letter, stating that each delegation had prepared its own report and did not fully concur in the report of the other delegation; and second, that the part of each report containing each delegation’s summary of its position be similarly transmitted. Shtikov, who had no other suggestion, declined these proposed solutions. Thereupon, General Brown proposed that same [each?] delegation report [Page 783] to its government that no agreement on a joint report could be reached. To this Shtikov agreed. Hence our report herein that there will be no joint report. Commission then adjourned until next week. General Brown will be chairman.
Separate telegram will give more details.94
- Telegram 317, September 5, not printed. In its last paragraph, Mr. Jacobs reported that the “Soviet Chief Commissioner in agreeing to a report to our Governments that no joint report was possible petulantly remarked that the stubborn attitude of the American delegation during the discussion of the joint report indicated that they really did not want one.” (740.00119 Control (Korea)/9–547) For General Brown’s statement issued on September 8 in regard to the matter, see Department of State Bulletin, September 28, 1947, p. 625. The text was sent to the Department in telegram 327, September 9, not printed.↩