811.24500/7–2446: Telegram
The Minister in New Zealand (Warren) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 24—9:44 a.m.]
391. McIntosh told me today he has instructed Berendsen to present the Department with the New Zealand proposal on Western Samoa. [Page 49] He anticipates that this may provoke some argument from the US but he wishes the Dept to know that New Zealand is prepared to work out a bilateral solution agreeable to both of us. He said that the Australians are extremely angry with New Zealand for not presenting the Manus Island problem co-jointly with Western Samoa but he said that New Zealand has no desire to be involved in the Manus discussion. He hopes that agreement may be reached by the United States and New Zealand in time to permit the proposal to be submitted to the September meeting of the Assembly.
[For further documentation regarding the bases question and the United States interest in the establishment of trusteeship arrangements by New Zealand over Western Samoa and Australia over New Guinea, see volume I.]