Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, General; the United Nations, Volume I

IO Files: US/A/152

Memorandum of Conversation, by Randolph Harrison of the United States Delegation Staff of Advisers

secret

[New York,] November 20, 1946.

Participants:	Mr. Fack of the Netherlands Delegation
	Mr. van Roijen, of the Netherlands Delegation
	Mr. Randolph Harrison

Both Mr. van Roijen and Mr. Fack, of the Netherlands Delegation, sought me out to express their deep concern and disappointment over the action of the United States in withdrawing its support from the Netherlands for a seat on the ECOSOC. Mr. Fack said that losing the vote of the United States was bad enough in itself, but since the act of the United States was generally known due to newspaper publicity, he felt that it would undoubtedly influence other nations to withdraw their support from the Netherlands. Mr. van Roijen and Mr. Fack both expressed the earnest hope that the decision of the United States on this subject was not final and that it would reinstate the Netherlands in its slate.