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Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. M. Gordon Knox, Adviser, Permanent United States Delegation to the United Nations
De Rose (France), in answer to a query, said his delegation had received no instructions on the Soviet request for military information. He added it was his personal and unofficial guess that France would support the U.K. and U.S. in this matter.
He said that the matter did not concern France directly, but that France was concerned by the Soviet attitude at the Peace Conference44 during recent weeks and might be inclined to adopt an anti-Russian viewpoint to this Soviet inquiry if it should become a political rather than a purely technical matter. His delegation would not want to discuss the question now because it lacked instructions. However, if instructed to oppose its placement on the Agenda he could think of many reasons. Two reasons he advanced were: There was no complaint, hence the matter was outside the Charter; the question is properly the concern of the MSC which has been blocked for months by Russian recalcitrance.
- Files of the United States Mission at the United Nations.↩
- For documentation on the Paris Peace Conference of 1946, see volumes iii and iv .↩