320/9–1754: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bohlen) to the Department of State
confidential
Moscow, September
17, 1954—10 p.m.
397. Acting under instructions (Embtel 324)1 Thai minister saw Gromyko last week concerning Soviet support of candidacy Prince Wan for UN GA Presidency and was given noncommittal answer that entire matter “still under consideration”. Gromyko reportedly did not [Page 594] mention SEATO only saying, in reply to Thai’s statement that he wished to better relations between the two countries, that relations “ought” to be based on mutual interests.
Bohlen