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following questions re relationship between UN command and

ROK forces in anticipation possible diet interpellation:

1) Is basic US. position same 4s delineated by answers
furnished Foreign Office May 24, 1961?

2) Is ROK-UNC joint announcement of May 26, 1961 still in
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