Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, General: Political and Economic Matters, Volume II

500.CC (PC)/12–2845: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

Washington, December 29, 1945—9 p.m.

11149. Reference Copre 680.⁴⁵ Please request British Government to take necessary steps to have formation of an Atomic Energy Commission placed on the agenda of GA by January 4 as a proposal sponsored by the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States and Canada, and also by China and France if their concurrence in this procedure is obtained by the British Government. Inform Stevenson⁴⁶ of this action.

For your information an invitation has been extended by us in accordance with the Moscow Agreement⁴⁷ to the other permanent members of the Security Council, France and China, together with Canada to join in assuming the initiative in sponsoring the proposed resolution at the first session of the General Assembly.

Acheson

45. Reference is to telegram 13630, December 28, 1945, from London, which inquired concerning the possibility of including atomic energy on the General Assembly agenda (500.CC (PC)/12–2845). Copre was the designation for telegrams from the United States delegation to the United Nations Preparatory Commission, meeting in London.
46. Adlai E. Stevenson, Acting United States Representative, United Nations Preparatory Commission.
47. See Section VII of the Communiqué on the Moscow Conference of the Three Foreign Ministers, December 27, 1945, transmitted to the Department in telegram 4284, December 27, 3 a.m., from Moscow, pp. 815, 822.