AUGUST 4, 1959

AMBASSADOR YIU
RE GOVT INSTRUCTIONS OJ ONE EIGHT ONE NINE PD YOU ARE INSTRUCTRD AS FOLLOWS CLN
ITEM ONE AFTER THE END OF AIDE MENOIRE OF THE SAID INSTRUCTIONS CMA ADD FOLLOWING SENTENCE CLN QUOTE IN THIS EFFORT TO SETTLE THE URGENT ISSURS CMA THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA EARNESTLY HOPES THAT THE TWO GOVERNMENTS MUTUALLY STRIVE NOT TO FURTHER AGGRAVIATE THE TENSION PRESENTLT EXISTING BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES UNQUOTE PD STRESS TO JAP THAT THIS PART OF AIDE MOIRE IS VERY IMPORTANT AND ASK JAP AS WHETHER IT ASSURES US IN THIS REGARD PD
ITEM TWO AS FOR PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS REFERRED TO IN AIDE MEMOIRE CMA SCOPE OF YOUR DISCUSSION WITH JAP MUST BE LIMITED TO DATE OF RESUMPTION AND PLACE OF TALKS PD KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO DISCUSS WITH JAP AT THIS STAGE ON WATS AND MEANS OF PROCEEDING OF OVERALL TAIKS NOT TO SPEAK OF SUBSTANTIAL ASPECTS OF VARIOUS ISSUES PD SUGGEST AUG THIRTYFIRST FOR DATE OF TALKS RESUMPTION PD
ITEM THREE IN DELIVERING AIDE MEMOIRE CMA EVADE MAKING ANY EXPLAMATIONS THERHON PD IF JAP ASKS QUESTIONS THEY SHOULD BE REFERRED TO HOME GOVT PD
ITEM FOUR YOU ARE EKCLUSIVELY INFORMED THAT THERE IS NO THEORETICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN RESUMPTION OF TALKS AND REPATRIATION OF DETAINEES CMA AND THAT IS WHT ONE IS STATED IN AIDE MEMOIRS AND THE OTHER IN Oral Statement PD

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