Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, General; the United Nations, Volume I

501.BB/10–1846

Memorandum by the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs (Hiss) to the Acting Chief of the Division of Dependent Area Affairs (Green)

[Washington,] October 18, 1946.

Mr. Cohen³² told me today that he had shown Senators Connally and Vandenberg the draft which he took with him when he last went to Paris³³ that set forth our plan with respect to our interpretation of “states directly concerned”. Both the Senators read the paper and returned it to him without comment. He feels, consequently, that in view of this reaction by the Senators we are entitled to assume that they see no objection from the point of view of the Senators’ prerogatives to our agreeing that the Assembly may approve a trusteeship agreement to which we were not a party but which replaced a mandate as to which the United States has a convention with the mandatory.

32. Benjamin V. Cohen, the Counselor of the Department.
33. Senators Connally and Vandenberg were members of the United States Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference.