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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of Northeast Asian Affairs (Borton)
| Participants: | Norman J. O. Makin, Ambassador of Australia |
| Alfred Stirling, Minister of Australia | |
| The Secretary | |
| J. H. Hilldring, Assistant Secretary of State | |
| Hugh Borton, Chief, Division of Northeast Asian Affairs |
Ambassador Makin called at his request to express further the views of his Government in reference to the proposed second SCAP-sponsored Antarctic whaling expedition. Ambassador Makin requested that he be allowed to read some notes which he had made in order that he could express more clearly the thought of his Government and people in reference to the whaling expedition. Ambassador Makin then read the attached,14 adding only that Mr. Menzies, the minority leader in Parliament, had recently strongly supported Mr. Evatt’s stand on whaling so that the Australian people took a united stand on the matter.
The Secretary replied that he was not prepared to answer Ambassador Makin today but that he would take his points into serious consideration.
The conversation terminated at 2:39 P.M.
- Not printed; it was a restatement of the Australian objections to a second whaling expedition involving Japan, a former enemy. The statement concluded with an expression of hope that the United States would review the matter which was regarded by Australia as of major importance and which deeply stirred the entire people of that country.↩