310.2/11–1654: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Mission at the united Nations1
Gadel 106. Re: Membership (Delga 240). Department concurs in GADel’s recommendations a, b, c and d. While case could be made for requiring ⅔ majority for adoption referral resolution on ground purpose of referral is favorable SC consideration of applications listed in draft resolutions and hence is more than procedural, (see discussion GA 370th plenary, February 1, 1952) we agree US should not press for Assembly decision to this effect.
We do not concur in recommendation e. We believe proper course, provided resolutions covering individual applicants not re-submitted, is simply vote on referral resolution as a whole as indicated alternative 3 Delga 240. We hope you can enlist enough votes to defeat it in light of close committee vote.
In accompanying explanation of vote, GADel would make clear that our opposition to referral resolution based on view (1) entirely unnecessary since other membership resolution provides for sending all [Page 1074] Assembly records to SC which would include these draft proposals; and (2) equates Soviet package proposal which GA has consistently rejected with proposals covering applicants previously determined to be qualified and whose admission has been blocked by Soviet veto in SC. We are not impressed with argument that negative US vote on referral would be misinterpreted since we can make perfectly clear in explanation of vote that we continue to support all 14 qualified applicants and are simply opposing pointless proposal. Moreover, committee history of referral proposal and explanations its sponsors seem to us to demonstrate that its purpose was to prevent any expression of GA opinion on individual applicants.
- Drafted by Brown (UNP), cleared with the geographic bureaus (except ARA), signed by the Director of the Office of UN Political and Security Affairs (Popper).↩