Office of the Historian

795A.5/10–750: Telegram

The Chargé in Norway (Snow) to the Secretary of State

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Oslo, October 7, 1950—noon.
[Received October 7—10:35 a. m.]

357. Norwegian Foreign Office has now received from its representative at Peiping report similar to that contained Depcirtel 9, October 5, 11 a. m., except for two variations: (1) No reference made to abstention from action if ROK troops crossed Parallel; and (2) Chinese Communist Government would not recognize any settlement of Korean problem in which Peiping Government did not participate.

Norwegian Foreign Office has no indications Soviet intentions re Korea.

Snow