United States Efforts to Help Promote a Peaceful Settlement of the Kashmir Dispute Between India and Pakistan1

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1952–1954, vol. XI, Part 2, pp. 1162 ff.


7. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/5–1855. Secret; Priority. Repeated to Karachi.


8. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/7–1455. Confidential. Drafted by Francis D. Collins and Harold D. Josif of the Office of South Asian Affairs, cleared with UNP, and approved by Jones. Repeated to New Delhi and London.


9. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/8–2655. Secret. Drafted by Nicholas G. Thacher and Joseph J. Sisco of the Office of United Nations Political Affairs; cleared by David W. Wainhouse, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs; and approved by John D. Jernegan. Repeated to New Delhi, London, Dacca, and Lahore.


11. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/12–1255. Secret; Niact. Drafted by Witman and Allen. Repeated priority to Kabul, London, and New Delhi.


12. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/12—1455. Secret; Priority. Repeated to London, New Delhi, and Moscow.


13. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, February 16, 1956

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.91/2—1656. Secret. Drafted by Jones.


14. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1—KA/3—556. Secret. Repeated to the Department of State which is the source text. Dulles was in Karachi for the second Council meeting of the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization, March 6—8.


16. Telegram From the Secretary of State to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/3—1056. Secret.


17. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790D.5—MSP/3—2256. Secret. Drafted and approved by Allen; cleared with Jones. Repeated to New Delhi.


18. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/4—856. Top Secret. Repeated to Karachi.


19. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/4–1256. Secret. Repeated to New Delhi and London.


20. Telegram From the Embassy in France to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790D.5–MSP/4–2556. Secret. Repeated to Karachi and London.


21. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, May 1, 1956

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/8–156. Secret. Drafted by MacArthur.


22. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/5–1156. Confidential. Drafted by Thacher and Jones, cleared with UNP and IO, and approved by Rountree. Repeated to New Delhi, London, and USUN in New York.


23. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790D.5–MSP/5–1556. Secret; Priority. Repeated to London and New Delhi.


24. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790D.5–MSP/5–1856. Secret. Repeated to Paris for Woodruff Wallner, Counselor of the Embassy in France and Political Adviser to the European Command in Paris.


25. Telegram From the United States Mission at the United Nations to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/5–3156. Secret; Niact.


26. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790D.5–MSP/5–1556. Secret. Drafted by Thacher and approved by Rountree. Also sent to New Delhi and repeated to London.


27. Telegram From the Department of State to the United States Mission at the United Nations

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/5–3156. Secret. Drafted by Ludlow, Samuel DePalma, Deputy Director of UNP, and Witman; cleared with Rountree and Wilcox; and approved by the Secretary of State. Repeated to Karachi with instructions to pouch it to New Delhi.


28. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5/6–956. Secret. Repeated to London and New Delhi.


29. Despatch From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/6–2956. Confidential.


30. Memorandum for the Files by the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (Wilcox)

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/7–556. Secret.


31. Letter From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Rountree) to the Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in Pakistan (Gardiner)

Source: Department of State, SOA Files: Lot 66 D 415, Kashmir 1956. Confidential; Official–Informal. Drafted by Witman.


32. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/8–156. Secret. Repeated to Karachi, Lahore, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras.


33. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, November 27, 1956

Source: Department of State, NEA Files: Lot 58 D 545, Pakistan. Secret. Drafted on November 30 by Soulen.


34. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790D.5–MSP/12–756. Passed to Defense; also sent to Paris for Wallner and the European Command.


35. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, December 19, 1956

Source: Department of State, PPS Files: Lot 66 D 487, India. Secret. Drafted by Withers.