751H.00/6–1953: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in France1
6093. Limit distribution. Following is memorandum conversation between Secretary and Bonnet June 16:2
“Bonnet said he was instructed by his Government to request us to urge that the Thailand Government should not support any application to UN on behalf of Cambodia at instigation of King of Cambodia who had taken asylum in Thailand.
“I said that our influence with Thailand had at French request been exerted in favor of Thailand not making UN application on its own behalf and that I was reluctant now to press them again. However I said it might be feasible for us to urge them not to act on behalf of Cambodia if at same time we lifted embargo we had attempted to impose upon their application on their own behalf. The Ambassador said he had read proposed Thailand statement to UN and that it involved many matters of concern to France. I said perhaps we might get them to change the formal statement so as to leave out matters relating to French Indochina. The Ambassador said this would still be bad but not as bad as the application on behalf of Cambodia.”