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Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. Ray L. Thurston, Adviser to the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly
US/A/C.1/2305
Subject: Indian Sponsored Appeal to the Chinese Communist and North Korean Authorities
| Participants: | Mr. M. Gopala Menon, Indian Delegation |
| Mr. Ray L. Thurston, United States Delegation |
In a discussion with Menon today on the meeting which took place last night out of which emerged the appeal of thirteen countries, lead by India, to the Chinese Communist and North Korean authorities to halt at the 38th parallel in Korea, he said that the Turks had refused to go along because of their feeling that with Turkish troops fighting in Korea it would not be an honorable thing to “beseech” the Chinese Communists in this matter, while the failure of the Thailand representative to associate himself in the move was attributed to the fact that the Thai did not have any instructions from his Government to cover the matter.
Menon said that because of India’s mediatory position it would abstain on all questions of procedure and substance connected with the GA item on Chinese intervention in Korea, and that the Indians were expecting a large number of the thirteen country bloc to abstain as well.