690D.91/7–1252: Telegram
The Chargé in Pakistan (Perkins) to the Department of State1
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60. Be Delhi’s 155 of July 11 to Dept. PriMin requested me call on him this A.M. and asked for news from Delhi re Kashmir. I informed him Amb Bowles had had second conversation with Nehru in which latter stated there had been no change in his own position, and that he felt any further discussions shld come thru Graham in NY. Nazimuddin said he was deeply disappointed because “I really think I made Nehru a very sporting offer.”
I have also talked to Zafrulla on subj, at his request. He said he had yesterday recd a “most disturbing” msg from Bokhari who quoted Graham to the effect he had been preparing to present concrete proposals of his own re troop question and induction of pleb administrator [Page 1280] into office, when “negots” were undertaken in the subcontinent which “short circuited” him and made it impossible for him to proceed.
Zafrulla said he hoped Dept wld clear up Graham’s misconceptions concerning the informal “explorations” which have been in progress in Delhi and Karachi and explain to him the circumstances in which they had been undertaken. He also hoped the US wld urge Graham to “get on with it” now that Nehru had clearly turned down the Pak proposal and to present his own “concrete proposals to the two parties without delay”. If both parties accepted Graham proposals, the FonMin said, negots cld go on from there. If either party rejected them, Graham wld then have to report failure to SC.
- This telegram was repeated to New Delhi, London, and New York.↩