Office of the Historian

740.00119 Control (Korea)/10–1847: Telegram

The Political Adviser in Korea (Jacobs) to the Secretary of State

confidential
Seoul, October 18, 1947.

431. Cite Zurc 1283. Sixty-second meeting of Joint Commission convened 1000 hours, October 18, with Shtikov as chairman, lasted for 45 minutes.

General Brown read texts of documents48 communicated in Deptel No. 239, October 10, and Deptel No. 244, October 15,49 and proposed recess with each delegation holding themselves in readiness at the headquarters of the respective occupation forces for such assistance as may be requested by the United Nations.

General Shtikov after 19 minutes’ recess replied that whereas the US proposal suggests interrupting work of Joint Commission, Soviet delegation will report to its Government for necessary instructions and will advise when these received.

Jacobs
  1. See letter of October 17 from the U.S. Representative at the United Nations to the UN Secretary General, p. 832.↩
  2. Neither printed.↩