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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Associate Chief of the Division of Dependent Area Affairs (Green)
Mr. McIntyre1 telephoned this morning and asked whether I had seen the paper which the Australian Ambassador had left with Mr. Acheson on Friday afternoon. I replied that I had not yet seen the paper, although I had been informed by telephone of the substance of the conversation. Mr. McIntyre said that he wanted to explain one point which the Ambassador may not have made perfectly clear. The Ambassador’s paper stated that the Australian Government presumed that the British Government would agree to the withdrawal of the proposed amendment to the United States trusteeship agreement. However, the Australian Government had not yet had time to obtain the concurrence of the British Government to this procedure. The paper should be read, therefore, with the understanding that the Australian Government was seeking the agreement of the British Government. It was possible that the British would prefer to revise the proposed amendment or to approach the problem in a slightly different way. In other words, British concurrence in Australia’s willingness to withdraw the proposed Article 17 should not be taken entirely for granted. I thanked Mr. McIntyre for this information and said that I would communicate it to other officers in the Department concerned.
Mr. McIntyre asked whether I knew when the Security Council would next consider the trusteeship agreement. I said that I understood that this depended on the schedule of Senator Austin who had come to Washington in connection with the Department’s budget hearings. Mr. McIntyre said that Mr. Hasluck in New York would welcome any information concerning Senator Austin’s plans. I told Mr. McIntyre that I would make inquiries and call him as soon as I had any information on this point.
- L. R. McIntyre, First Secretary of the Australian Embassy.↩