Efforts continue to assess Soviet intentions.
The President holds a press and radio conference. At this conference it was reported that the South Korean forces had suffered 50 percent casualties and were attempting to form a line at the Han River, but would fall back to a line above Taegue, if necessary. Reports for holding the Suwon airstrip were favorable. . . . Gromyko, which the Department interpreted as making it appear unlikely that the Soviet Union intended to commit its forces to Korea. It was unprovocative, and appeared to be dictated primarily by a resolve to Keep Moscow's responsibility in the affair entirely disengaged in the formal sense.