795.00/12–2951: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Gifford) to the Secretary of State
2902. Following is text of Eden’s letter dated December 28, in reply to my letter to him based on Deptel 3050, December 26:
“I have considered your letter of the 27th December, and write to inform you that I agree with the revised wording of the final para of the draft warning statement on Korea.
“You will remember that in the last para of my letter of the 21 December (Embtel 2857, December 24) I said that we attach great importance to having the UN associated with the proposed statement in an appropriate way. I now understand that, once agreement has been reached among the govts concerned on the text of the statement, the procedure for its issue will also be a subject of inter-governmental consideration”.