740.00119 Council/8–2646: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Caffery)
u.s. urgent
4381. Secdel 751. I asked Bonnet37 today if his Govt could not be persuaded abstain from voting on our intended proposal for the admission of all 9 applicants to UN rather than veto it because one of the applicants was Siam. ReDeptel 4353.38 He replied he was almost certain it could not. Because time is so short, I then suggested that the Fr Rep to S.C. propose an amendment to our proposal excluding Siam and reducing number of applicants to 8. He would then propose that consideration of Siamese application should be postponed for 30 days, at which time France as result conversations now going on in Wash with Siamese for settlement outstanding problems and termination technical state of war, hoped to be in position no longer oppose Siamese application. Bonnet is cabling suggestion Paris with request Parodi be instructed prior Council meeting Wed morning.
Sent Paris as 4381 rptd London as 6262 and New York as 170.
- Henri Bonnet, French Ambassador to the United States.↩
- August 24 (Secdel 740), not printed. This telegram to the Secretary of State, addressed to the attention of the Counselor of the Department (Cohen) and the Director of the Office of European Affairs (Matthews) who were at Paris with the Secretary, described briefly talks with the French Representative on the Security Council (Parodi) at New York, and instructed: “Since French veto would complicate already difficult negotiations would appreciate if one of you could raise same point with Baudet, Chief Far Eastern Section [French] FonOff. Since French seem sympathetic our proposal for broad UN membership some possibility of new instructions on Siamese application may exist.” (740.00119 Council/8–2246)↩