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United States Delegation Minutes: SFM Pre 5
Preliminary Conversations for September Foreign Ministers Meetings September 1, 1950, 10:30 a. m. to 12:45 p. m.
Delegations
| british | french | u.s. |
| Sir Derick Hoyer Millar2 | Ambassador Bonnet3 | Ambassador Jessup |
| Mr. Daridan | Mr. Perkins | |
| Mr. Burrows | Mr. de Margerie | Mr. Yost |
| Mr. Graves | Mr. Millet | Mr. Raynor |
| Mr. Burns | Mr. Jackson | |
| Mr. Watson | Mr. O’Shaughnessy | |
| Mr. Marten | Mr. McSweeney (Recorder) | |
| Earl Jellicoe |
Ambassador Jessup welcomed the British and French delegations. He stated that the work done in preceding conversations had been very satisfactory. There are a number of points which cannot be dealt with at this moment. The function of these meetings should be to develop the points as much as possible, sharpening the documents so that they will contain the most important points for the Foreign Ministers. It was agreed that today’s meeting would attempt to cover all the documents, leaving Tuesday4 available for another meeting if necessary.
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Document 5 (D–6)—Korea5
The UK delegation suggested that the phrase “Similarly without UN direction …” be added at the beginning of A.3.
Ambassador Jessup pointed out that in the matter of military action north of the 38th parallel, we are not talking about military actions, [Page 682] such as bombing attacks which may be carried out for strategic or tactical purposes in the course of the present action, but rather of the use of UN forces, presently in Korea to prevent aggression, to bring about unification of Korea.
Ambassador Jessup raised the question of the meaning of “permanent occupation” in Paragraph 6, page 2, and stated that he assumed that this would not exclude the use of UN forces in the period of pacification of the area. The British delegation stated it felt the phrase meant something like “unduly prolonged occupation” but that the phrase was taken from Foreign Office instructions.
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