501. AA/5–2746
Minutes of the Eighth Meeting of the Departmental Team on Admission of New Members to the United Nations, Department of State, Washington, May 27, 1946
| Participants: | EUR: Mr. Raynor |
| ITP: Mr. Coppock74 | |
| SEA: Mr. Landon | |
| NEA: Mr. Satterthwaite | |
| IS: Mr. Adams | |
| OA: Miss Fosdick | |
| Mr. Taylor75 |
The meeting was called to consider the revised draft instruction76 on membership which Mr. Raynor was to take with him to New York for consultation in the U.S. Delegation in connection with proposed conversations with the British delegation on membership questions.
Mr. Raynor explained that he had talked by telephone with Mr. Herschel Johnson about the proposed conversation with the British, that Mr. Johnson had agreed to our suggestions but wished to be fully sure of the Department’s policy, and that the draft instruction would accordingly be presented to the Staff Committee the next morning, Tuesday, May 28.77
The Committee made a few further drafting changes in the instruction preparatory to its submission to the Staff Committee.
A brief draft telegram78 to USdel, New York, authorizing conversations [Page 388] with the British on further phases of the membership question, was also submitted to the Committee, preparatory to its presentation to the Staff Committee for clearance.
- Joseph D. Coppock, Adviser, Office of International Trade Policy.↩
- Paul B. Taylor of the Division of International Organization Affairs (Office of Special Political Affairs); Mr. Taylor had been on duty with the United States Delegation to the United Nations at New York.↩
- See memorandum entitled “Further Steps in Relation to the Admission of New Members”, May 28, infra.↩
- The Secretary’s Staff Committee was in effect the top policy-making group in the Department, being “responsible for advising and otherwise assisting the Secretary of State in determining current and long-range foreign policy. …” No record has been found in the Department’s files of a Secretary’s Staff Committee meeting on May 28.↩
- Telegram 81, May 28, 7 p.m., to New York, not printed. The conversations were to be based upon the general approach to the membership question described in telegram 55, May 8, to New York, paragraphs 4 and 5, in conjunction with the “full views” of the Department which were to be conveyed to the United States Delegation at New York by Mr. Raynor on May 29. (501.BC/5–246)↩