740.00111A.R.–N.C./73
Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. Philip W. Bonsal of the Division of the American Republics
| Participants: | Señor Andrés Pastoriza, Minister of the Dominican Republic. |
| Mr. Briggs,48 | |
| Mr. Bonsal. |
Dr. Pastoriza called to discuss a communication which he had received from the Dominican Minister of Foreign Affairs49 concerning the Inter-American Neutrality Committee at Rio (a translation of this communication is attached.50) The proposal made by the Dominican Minister in Rio51 involves the naming of fourteen substitutes to the Inter-American Neutrality Committee.
Señor Pastoriza was told that in our opinion the Committee is not a body on which individual governments have representation but that it is a technical advisory body set up on behalf of the twenty-one American republics in order to make recommendations concerning specific topics. It therefore is our opinion that the Dominican proposal would introduce an undesirable change in the character of the Committee.
Señor Pastoriza appeared to be in agreement with these views and stated that his Government had not made up its mind about the proposal.