560.A.L./2–1246: Circular telegram
The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Officers 38
Dept will transmit to you, within next few days, third person air mail instruction enclosing copies of a memorandum dated Feb 6 entitled “Preparations for Preliminary Meeting on Trade and Employment”.39
Please transmit copies of this memorandum to appropriate officials of Govt to which you are accredited, stating that it represents the ideas of the Govt of the US regarding a) the objectives of the meeting, b) the procedures which appear to be desirable before and at the meeting to achieve these objectives and c) the relation between the preliminary meeting and the proposed general world conference on trade and employment. You may also add that Govt of US would be glad to receive views of Govt to which you are accredited regarding any of suggestions put forward in memorandum.40
Copies will also be made available informally to missions of nuclear countries in Washington.
In connection with foregoing, US delegation to UNO has intoduced resolution in Economic and Social Council for calling of world conference on trade and employment which will be discussed by Council in next day or two. Text of resolution follows in subsequent circular telegram.41
- Sent to the fifteen United States missions accredited to the governments invited by the United States to the preliminary conference.↩
- The memorandum was transmitted under cover of instructions dated February 15, none printed. On the same date, February 15, the Department sent a circular telegram to the same missions instructing them to withhold conveyance of the memorandum to the government concerned until informed by the Department that ECOSOC had acted on the proposed resolution on the trade and employment conference (560.AL/2–1546).↩
- The Department authorized transmission of the memorandum to the appropriate governments in a circular telegram of February 20, 7 p.m. (560.AL/2–1546).↩
- The draft of this resolution is printed in telegram 797, January 22, p. 1277.↩