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

501.AA/12–846

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Chief of the Division of Southeast Asian Affairs (Landon)

confidential

[Washington,] December 8, 1946.

Participants:	Prince Wan Waithayakon, Head of Siamese Mission;
	His Excellency, Pridi Banomyong, Former Prime Minister;
	Mr. Kenneth P. Landon, SEA.

In the course of a conversation at the Siamese Legation the question of Siam’s application for membership in the United Nations arose. I made it clear to Prince Wan that Mr. Herschel Johnson was expecting to hear from Prince Wan in regard to the method of procedure at Tuesday’s meeting of the Security Council.⁵⁷ I said that Mr. Johnson would like to be informed whether Siam wanted the American delegation to support strongly Siam’s application even though there might be a possibility of a Russian veto or whether Prince Wan would prefer to defer consideration of the question if Russia seemed inclined to veto the application. Prince Wan assured me that he would call upon Mr. Johnson on Monday after a further conversation with Mr. Gromyko and would discuss the best method of procedure⁵⁸

57. Siam’s application appeared as the second item on the provisional agenda for the meeting of the Security Council on December 10 (Tuesday).
58. At the December 10 meeting, upon the request of the representative of the Soviet Union (Gromyko), the Security Council agreed to place the Siamese application upon the list of matters of which the Security Council was seized rather than upon the agenda itself (SC, 1st yr., 2nd series, pp. 525–527).