501.BB/9–2449: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin)
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Washington, September 24, 1949—6 p. m.
Gadel 11. Reference Delga 161 and 19.2
- 1.
- Dept. prefers to give Delegation discretion to work out in N.Y. tactics for handling Soviet Resolution in GC.
- 2.
- Urgent exchange of views as to tactics in GC should be undertaken with British and French and other Delegations as Del thinks desirable.
- 3.
- Preliminary thinking in Dept. is that reference of resolution as a whole to Committee 1 might be preferable. This would make possible effort to kill resolution in a single debate if this should later be decided desirable on tactics and substance. If it were decided preferable to treat the parts of the resolution separately paragraph on Atomic Energy could be referred to Ad Hoc Committee for disposition or recommendation.
- 4.
- Dept. queries wisdom of referring Par 1 to Plenary and Par 3 to Committee 1 as this could be interpreted as implicit recognition that Par 3, as well as Par 2, have merit.
- 5.
- All of foregoing is on the assumption it is neither feasible or desirable to stop resolution in GC.
Webb