795.00/10–550: Telegram
The Ambassador in India (Henderson) to the Secretary of State
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[Received October 5—3:59 a. m.]
833. 1. In looking through Embtel 831, October 4, 1950, which was indicated and despatched under pressure in order that Department could obtain information at earliest possible moment, I find I omitted several items which might be of interest.
2. Panikkar’s telegram received yesterday (see paragraph 6) took position that entry UN forces into North Korea was inevitable as was also consequent entry Chinese forces. Much of this telegram, however, was devoted to argumentation that even though UN and Communist China forces might come into conflict in North Korea, there was still possibility of limiting fighting to Korea. In other words it was not necessary in his opinion for UN forces to fight Communist China forces in China or any place other than in Korea. Bajpai remarked that this sort of argumentation did not reflect much credit on Panikkar’s reasoning ability.
3. In one of communications from Panikkar which I was allowed to read hurriedly, there was indication that in some message not shown [Page 877] to me GOI had endeavored to satisfy Peiping re its policies towards Indochina.