Office of the Historian

310.2/5–2154: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Aldrich) to the Department of State1

secret
London, May 21, 1954—11 a.m.

5253. Re Austrian UN membership Foreign Office concurs with Department’s position (Deptel 5721, April 28).2 Delay in reaching decision due to second thoughts on Austria’s eligibility for membership in view of its occupation status. Legal staff which in 1949 found Austria eligible has now reversed itself. Hence Foreign Office considers any action beyond Austrian letter to UN SYG undesirable.

Aldrich
  1. Repeated for information to Vienna (168) and Paris (unnumbered).↩
  2. Not printed.↩