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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Director of the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs (Popper)
US/A/C.1/1988
Subject: Composition of Korean Commission
| Participants: | Mr. Wainhouse, Department of State |
| Mr. Popper, United States Delegation |
Mr. Wainhouse informed me that a meeting had been held this afternoon in the Department at which Messrs. Mathews, Hickerson, Rusk, Jessup, Merchant, Johnson and Wainhouse had been present, to formulate our view on the composition of the Korean Unification and Rehabilitation Commission.
Mr. Wainhouse dictated the following sentences which sum up the result of this meeting:
“It was agreed that the Commission should be made up of neutrals and that we should stress the need for having top level representatives on it. If it is proposed that the USSR or a Soviet satellite be put on the Commission, then we should counter with the suggestion that the Soviet Union, United Kingdom and ourselves be put on it.”
I asked Mr. Wainhouse what was meant by the word “neutrals”. He informed me that it meant all states except the Big Five.