Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, Korea, Volume VII

795A.5/10–750: Telegram

The Ambassador in Sweden (Butterworth) to the Secretary of State

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Stockholm, October 7, 1950—1 p. m.
[Received October 7—11:52 a. m.]

451. Deptelcir 9, October 3 and Embtel 449, October 6 not repeated New Delhi. Swedish Foreign Office just informed Embassy that Swedish Ambassador Peking has now reported in telegram October 6 that Indian Ambassador Peking informed him as follows:

On October 3 Chou En-lai called in Indian Ambassador and asked him to report that Chou’s declaration October 1¹

“should be interpreted as implying that any transgression of 38th parallel by US forces will not be passively tolerated by Chinese Government and as a demand that Korean conflict not be resolved without Chinese participation”.

Phraseology in Swedish Ambassador’s report is being transmitted to Dept with special care because difference in emphasis as compared with report through Indian Foreign Office Delhi may be considered important by Department.

Repeated New Delhi unnumbered.

Butterworth

1. See footnote 1 to telegram 708 from Hong Kong received at 1:22 p. m. on October 3, p. 852.