유엔한국위원단의 활동

THE FOREIGN SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DIVISION OF NORTHEAST ASIAN AFFAIRS Copy circulated [illegible] OF SOUTH ASIA [illegible] 2 FE [illegible] DEPARTMENT OF STATE [illegible] 1949 [illegible] of State No. 231 (For Limited Distribution) American Embassy, SECRET Seoul, Korea, April 26, 1949. Subject: Operations of the United Nations Commission on Korea The American Embassy has the honor to transmit for the Department's information copies of memoranda of conversation which are self-explanatory. Enclosure: 1/F 1&3 √1. Memorandum of Conversation No. 33 dated April 22, 1949. Subject: Interpretation of the Ambassador's Letter of Transmittal. 2. Memorandum of Conversation No. 32 dated April 22, 1949. Subject: Interpretation of the Terms of Reference of UNCOK. 3. Memorandum of Conversation No. 34 dated April 23, 1949. Subject: UNCOK Operations. <첨부문서> 제3호 유엔한국위원단 활동(1949. 4. 23) RESTRICTED Enclosure No. 3 to despatch No. 231 dated April 26, 1949 from the American Embassy, Seoul, Korea MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION No. 34 April 23, 1949 SUBJECT: UNCOK Operations PARTICIPANTS: Dr. Ranshofen-Wertheimer, Principal Secretary, UNCOK Mr. Gardiner TIME: 2:00 p.m. DATE: April 23, 1949 PLACE: Hotel Victory (DR. RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER invited me to lunch with him today, saying that he had some matters which might be of interest to me which were too important to discuss on the telephone.) DR. RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER opened the conversation by referring to the meeting of the full Commission held on April 22. He said that at this meeting he had again been violently attacked by Mr. Luna on the grounds that the Secretariat was exceeding its authority. The occasion for this attack was the fact that DR. RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER, without having first secured the authorization of the Commission, had had passes printed addressed to the policy, instructing the latter to pass the bearers into the building occupied by UNCOK on the grounds of the Duk Soo Palace. DR. RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER had issued ten passes in blank to each of the members of the Commission. DR. RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER told me that he felt very strongly that he had adequate authority to do this but that he had secured little support for his action from the members of the Commission. I asked DR. RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER if he had discussed the matter of UNCOK issuing its own passes with the Korean Government before the blank passes were handed out to the various members. He said that he had not done so. I suggested that his action inso doing might possibly cause difficulties with the Korean Government. He said that he would welcome such difficulties. In addition to the problem of passes, the Committee also discussed the draft of answers to the questionnaire submitted on March 31 to the Commission by representatives of the Korean press. The press members who had submitted the questionnaire to UNCOK had withdrawn the questionnaire, giving as their reason that UNCOK was doing nothing about it. The Commission was somewhat irritated by this action and agreed to send its answers to the Minister of Information for whatever use he saw fit to make of the document. The Commission next discussed Mr. Muccio's letter of April 14 and after deliberating an hour finally decided that upon his return from Cholla Namdo the Chairman would call on Mr. Muccio to ask him whether he would be willing to meet with the Commission in an "off the record" session to discuss the problem of "consultation" with him. Hopes that this meeting might take place within the next two weeks were dashed by Mr. Luna's insistence that he be present. In view of the fact that Mr. Luna would probably not return before the 9th of May and the Commission's projected trip to Cheju-do for the purpose of viewing the elections on May 10 would follow, it was unlikely that the proposed meeting could be scheduled before the middle of May. When I suggested to DR. RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER that Mr. Muccio might wish to discuss the problem of "consultation" with Mr. Magana, without waiting for the attendance of the full Commission, DR. RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER advised strongly against this as he said that he did not believe that Magana had sufficient intellectual stature to adequately absorb and subsequently present the finesses which undoubtedly would be involved. He said he hoped, therefore, that MR. MUCCIO would confine his discussions with MR. MAGANA to either agreeing or disagreeing to meeting the full Commission in the manner indicated above. J. P. Gardiner