840.50/2694: Telegram
The Chargé in Chile (Heath) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 10—12:24 a.m.]
1765. The Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs inquires whether the note contained in the Department’s circular telegram of October 725 does not introduce a new condition in the arrangements for the formation of the UNRRA, namely the joint signature of the proposed agreement without previous discussion of it and conference between the delegates.
He also inquires whether the four committees suggested in the note under reference would be standing committees meeting if need be when the Council itself was not in session and being in communication with the Central Committee in which case he said the Chilean Government would withdraw its objection to the restricted membership proposed for the Central Committee.
The Under Secretary further said that the Chilean Government still felt that the decisions of the Council on matters of fundamental policy should be by unanimous vote but it recognized that the smaller and practical questions should be determined by majority vote.
- See telegram No. 6228, October 7, to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom, supra, and footnote 24.↩