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501.BB/11–2546: Telegram

Senator Austin to the Acting Secretary of State

secret
urgent
New York, November 25, 1946—11:20 a.m.
[Received 11:39 a.m.]

851. Re armed forces USdel decided this morning:15 1. To make early statement along lines determined on November 23 (now embodied in US/A/C.1/69, Rev. A),16 except that we would not give out information on our armed forces unilaterally;

2.
To seek to secure agreement among the several draft resolutions in a subcommittee (of Committee I);
3.
If situation permits, to present provisions for reporting forces at home and paragraphs b and c of US/A/C.1/69, Rev. A, as amendments rather than as separate resolution;
4.
To oppose provisions for verification of reports and to authorize political officers to inform British to this effect.
Austin
  1. 28th Meeting of the United States Delegation, 9 a.m.↩
  2. United States Delegation position paper US/A/C.1/69, November 22, a draft resolution approved by the Delegation on November 23, is printed in telegram 843, November 23, from New York, p. 1042. US/A/C.1/69 (rev.a) differed from the original draft only in matters of minor wording and in its sub-paragraph A.3 which read as follows: “The number of such personnel on the territory of each other country in which they are stationed.” (IO Files)↩