501.BB/11–2146: Telegram
Senator Austin to the Secretary of State
New York, November 21,
1946—12:30 a.m.
[Received 12:47 a.m.]
[Received 12:47 a.m.]
831. Text of resolution on armed forces proposed in Committee I November 20 by Molotov follows:
“General Assembly recommends to Security Council to take a decision to effect that states-members of UN should submit following information to Secretary General and Security Council within a month:
- 1.
- At what points in territory of UN members or other states with exception of former enemy territories and in what number are armed forces of other UN members.
- 2.
- At what points in former enemy states and in what number are armed forces of Allied powers and other UN members.
- 3.
- At what points in above mentioned territories are air and naval bases and what is size of their garrisons belonging to armed forces of other UN states members.
- 4.
- Information to be provided under paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 should refer to the situation as it existed November 1, 1946”.88
Austin
- The First Committee took up the question of United Nations members reporting on their troops stationed on non-enemy territories at its 24th Meeting, November 20; for the record of that meeting, see GA (I/2), First Committee, pp. 127–130. Molotov reiterated the Soviet position and submitted the resolution contained in the present telegram. Senator Connally responded that United States troops were stationed on foreign territory with the consent of the governments concerned. He emphasized that the United States was willing to report on all troops as it had nothing to hide, but stated that the Soviet proposal just offered would have to be studied before he could comment upon it.↩