501.BC Armaments/5–2947
Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Associate Chief of the Division of International Security Affairs (Blaisdell)
Subject: May 28 Meeting of the Commission for Conventional Armaments Subcommittee on Plan of Work.
Mr. Lindsay called me by telephone from New York this morning to convey information on the results of yesterday’s meeting of the Committee for Conventional Armaments Subcommittee on plan of work. He stated that the United States had introduced the draft plan1 aimed at reconciling the divergent United States (New York’s 427, May 6, 10:20 p.m.)2 and Soviet (New York’s 494, May 24 [21], 8 p.m.)3 draft plans. This action on the part of the United States brought no favorable response from the Soviet Union representative, Mr. Gromyko, who said that the introduction of the second draft indicated lack of sincerity in proposing the first. The United States representative thereupon withdrew the compromise plan and no further progress was made with respect to the contents of a plan of work. However, representatives of the U.K., France, and China reiterated their support of the United States draft plan in the course of the discussion.
Full agreement, however, was reached in the Subcommittee on a proposal for organization, namely, for the Commission to establish a working committee composed of representatives of all members of the CCA, the working committee to be authorized to establish such subcommittees as are necessary.
The Subcommittee will meet next on Wednesday, June 4.