Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, General: The United Nations, Volume I

500.CC/4–945

Memorandum Prepared in the Department of State⁷¹

Second Suggestions Concerning Allocation of Commission and Committee Positions at the Conference

Pursuant to the ideas tentatively set forth in our memorandum of April 3 on this subject, it is suggested that the Conference sponsors agree that the officers of the Commissions and Committees should be representatives of the countries indicated on the attached sheet.⁷²

In the matter of secretariat, the host Government will supply a skilled professional organization, into which will be incorporated any skilled secretarial personnel which, in spite of the shortage of time, may be made available from the staffs accompanying the delegations of other sponsors and participating countries.

Washington , April 9, 1945.

New List⁷³

1. Executive Committee:

Unchanged.

2. Presidents of the Commissions:

Unchanged.

3. Rapporteurs:

I. Peru Philippine Commonwealth; II. Ecuador Cuba; III. Philippine Commonwealth Egypt; IV. Honduras Ethiopia.

4. Assistant Secretaries-General:

I. Syria Lebanon; II. Liberia; III. Nicaragua Panama; IV. Ethiopia Dominican Republic.

5. Chairmen and rapporteurs of Committees:

I	II	III	IV
1. Bolivia	1. Paraguay	1. Turkey	1. India
R. Nicaragua	Ecuador	Australia	Luxembourg
2. Yugoslavia	Iraq	Costa Rica	Paraguay
Peru	2. Chile	2. Uruguay	2. Egypt
R.	3. Colombia	Syria	Turkey
	India	3. New Zealand	Haiti
	R. Guatemala	Yugoslavia
	4. Australia	Honduras
	New Zealand	4. Greece
	R. El Salvador	Colombia

6. Miscellaneous:

Committee on Credentials: Saudi Arabia.

71. Marginal notation on the original: “This memorandum was approved in draft form and was handed to the Chinese Ambassador by the Secretary on April 10, 1945.” Copies were handed to the Soviet and British Ambassadors on the same date.
72. Attachment not found in Department files, but see “New List,” infra. Discussion of the memorandum took place at the second meeting of the Informal Organizing Group on April 10, but the minutes do not explain the advantages of this distribution of offices over that proposed in memorandum of April 3 on this subject.
73. List copied from a 5-volume history by Bernadotte B. Schmitt, “The United Nations Conference on International Organization” (mimeographed, Department of State, 1948), vol. i, p. 22. The names crossed out on this list are those of countries appearing in the list contained in the memorandum of April 3 to the British Embassy, p. 181, which were replaced by the names of countries underlined in this new list.