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FE files, lot 55 D 480, “United Nations”

Memorandum by the United Nations Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs (Bacon), to the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Robertson)

confidential
[Washington,] September 23, 1954.
  • Subject:
  • General Assembly: Credentials Committee

The Credentials Committee nominated by Madam Pandit was approved without opposition. The Committee is favorably constituted from the Chinese representation point of view. Of the nine states only three have recognized the Chinese Communists and one of these three (Pakistan) normally votes with the U.S. on moratorium type proposals. The Committee consists of Burma, El Salvador, France, Lebanon, New Zealand, Pakistan, USSR, U.S., and Uruguay. The Credentials Committee will report to the General Assembly whether all credentials (including the Chinese) are in order.